Today, the first trash-pickup day after Epiphany, is the day where the streets are lined with the dessicated corpses of Christmas trees. I keep trying to give this a German name, something something “die töten Tannenbäume,” but I can’t quite make it work.
Posted in personal | 5 Comments »>Things that I think I should have known about sooner: they’ve made a movie out of “Mimsy Were the Borogoves”.
The original story, by Lewis Padgett (a pseudonym for Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore), was published in Astounding in 1943, and it’s one of the few Golden Age stories that I think is actually brilliant, both [...]
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Posted in science fiction | 5 Comments »>As previously noted, I had a great time at the AHA meeting this weekend–it was both enjoyable and productive, and I’ve returned home exhausted, but full of ideas and energy.
I’d imagine that part of my general positive feeling about the whole thing comes from the fact that I didn’t get arrested for jaywalking. (The [...]
Atlanta.
Originally uploaded by Susan Groppi.
I’m in Atlanta for the 121st Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. I have maligned this meeting in the past, claiming that it’s little more than a stress factory driven by the collective tension of hundreds of job-seeking historians. I say “maligned” because, while that aspect of the [...]
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Posted in personal | 1 Comment »>Happy New Year, everyone! We celebrated in style, a smallish party with good friends and a lot of laughter. Also party hats.
My year had a lot of changes in it (finishing the dissertation, finishing graduate school, one of those round-number birthdays, starting a new teaching job, publishing a book ), but the changes [...]
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