Neal Thomas graciously offered to photoshop the pictures of the EBR mask onto my faculty photo. The results are impressive, though I am as yet undecided as to whether this should replace my official faculty photo on the McGill site:
Category Archives: Travel
Homecoming (never mind the typo)
Lushness in the Nosebleed Seats
Phenomenology of the International Date Line
but first, this: There is something uncanny about flying for more than half a day and landing in Vancouver 3 hours earlier than when I left Sydney. UPDATE: I forgot to mention that we met someone who flew over the day before his birthday and when he arrived in Australia, it was the day after …
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And Now a Few Words on Dub and Lawns
An offhand comment in Joel Schalit’s blog entry led me to check out the work of Scientist. “Scientist Rids the World of the Curse of the Vampires” is an amazing album. Black Uhuru was my favorite reggae act back in the day, and actually my first exposure to dub before I knew it was a …
That’s what happens when I make promises. . .
. . .that I can’t keep. But it’s been quite a couple weeks, as we’ve gone from lizard. . . > (on the grounds of the resort where we were staying)… …to yet another blizzard, this one putting us within 30cm of the all-time record for snowfall. Here’s a pic of where we would have …
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This week’s blog topic: our vacation in Mexico
That’s the plan anyway, if I can get the time free to write (even though I swore I was done with book reviews, I’m finishing a review of Steven Wurtzler’s Electric Sounds for Cinema Journal). In the meantime, I would like to briefly comment on two things only loosely vacation-related: 1. The Orlando airport is …
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