Sometimes my life here feels like a series of events planned by other people. Which is absolutely wonderful — there is always something going on — but of course one important part of life is maintaining friendships on one’s own time and in one’s own way and not under the rubric of an “event.” In …
Category Archives: Text
Timex Computer
Steven writes in the comments to the subway chord post: OMG, you had a Timex Sinclair? It had a tape deck? I guess I didn’t know those things had any accessories. Okay, I remembered wrong. Looking at the pictures, I most clearly had a Timex ZX81. I actually inherited it from some friends of my …
In today’s mail
came our permanent residency cards. We can now officially leave the country and return (as well as stay in it). Some facts of note: –the card expires. In 2011. I don’t see anything about renewal though obviously that’s an option. But by 2011 we could be dual citizens. And Carrie will have tenure. And the …
The Department That Parties Together Learns Together
or is it the other way around?
Tonight, for just a moment
the whine of the metro train leaving the station hit the exact same chord as the song playing in my earphones. That was intense.
And now, a short post about course planning
One of my major activities for the week was nailing down the details for my big lecture undergrad course in the winter. It’s a complete reworking of the department’s largest course (200 students), which has moved from a “telegraph to the internet” sort of history of communication course to “introduction to communication studies.” I always …
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What’s Old is Even Older
Attention cultural studies geeks. I am always fascinated by the degree to which things repeat themselves in academic culture. The 70s mass culture debates restaged those of the 40s and 50s, and on and on. This morning I went looking for an electronic copy of Georg Simmel’s essay on fashion, and I stumbled upon this …