on what should be a beautiful 30 degree day (that’s 87, American readers). I hope they’ve fixed the A/C in my seminar room. Apart from that little worry, I am feeling the usual beginning-of-the-year optimism. Perhaps it’s tempered a little bit by the knowledge of the administration that lies in wait for fall, but I …
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New Text
I see that I’ve been neglecting this feature of the blog. Here’s a catch-up post starting with something hot off the internet: Jonathan Sterne, Jeremy Morris, Michael Brendan Baker and Ariana Moscote Freire, “The Politics of Podcasting.” In “After Convergence, What Connects?” a special issue of Fibreculture edited by Caroline Bassett, Maren Hartmann and Kate …
So there I was tonight
in the theater, watching “Get Smart” with Carrie and a couple friends, and what do I see? The Arts Building! The place where I work. Then the main character drives around the driveway in front of the Arts building. And you can see the McGill red and white colored flowers, and the banner hanging off …
Loggia, Year 2, Stage 2
Campus Politics
For some time now, a digest called “IN THE NEWS” appears in my mailbox each morning with news items of interest to people working at McGill (plus, naturally, all the “expert citings” since the university keeps track of that sort of thing). In today’s digest, two apparently unrelated stories appeared. –A <a href=”http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-stuff4-2008jul04,0,983101.story” target=”_blank>profile</a> …
Good News, Bad News
The good news is that the blog is back up. Bad news is that the old template is gone. Guess I’ll be doing some web design later.
Well
that was an intense two weeks. A week of ICA stuff, then all the chair stuff I didn’t do during ICA. Now off to Minneapolis. See you sometime in June. As an extra special treat, I am going off email entirely while in Minneapolis.