2016-03-19 18:53
Hello, all. It's been fairly busy around here as the new semester approached and has now arrived and, moreover, combined with a dearth of much of anything "interesting" to pass along in thi… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
It's been pretty quiet 'round these parts as the summer begins to wind down and August and the new semester approach. But I recently posted the following review on Amazon, and I thought I'd… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Over at his excellent film blog, Scanners, Jim Emerson has an ongoing feature called the Opening Shots Projects. Here's its rationale, in brief:
1) The movie is about what happens to you… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
A stretch of the railroad between Fitchburg and Concord. Image found here.
One would think that there'd be no need to write something like a post with the title that this one has: that a f… Read More
2012-05-16 11:02
Fuentes, standing in front of the Aztec Sun Calendar at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. Image found here.
Carlos Fuentes died today in his home town of Mexico City. He w… Read More
2012-05-15 11:28
The controversy over the claim that Vermeer used a camera obscura when painting now, with the recent discovery of this image, seems like pretty small potatoes. (Image found here.)
Grades a… Read More
2012-05-07 22:09
Terence Malick and Christian Bale, Austin, Texas, September 2011. Image found here.
Dear Mr. Malick,
I'm under no illusions here. You almost certainly will never read this. For one thi… Read More
2012-04-26 10:52
. . . it's okay if it passed without your knowing. No fireworks, no mass rallies, not even a mention on the cable news chyrons. It was pretty quiet even for the person whose century's midp… Read More
2012-04-22 12:56
Your correspondent's arrival to last Tuesday's department meeting? Naah--it's really Tompkins H. Matteson's Rip Van Winkle's Return (1860). Image found here.
Apparently, part of turning 5… Read More
2012-04-20 21:56
Lee's caption: "Mary Alice and Fluffles, the morning they pulled the big bank job."
Tumblr accounts, you may have heard, are the Hot New Thing on the Interwebs. I'm drawing your attention… Read More
2012-04-14 14:55
Skyline of Cottonwood Falls, the county seat of Chase County, Kansas. Click on image to enlarge. The courthouse is the oldest government building in continuous use in Kansas. Image found… Read More
2012-04-14 13:52
Room for the Sky, taken somewhere in Chase County, Kansas, by Dave Leiker. Click on image to enlarge. Image found here.As mentioned in my most recent post, I've begun reading William Least… Read More
2012-04-07 19:47
Caravaggio, The Calling of St. Matthew, 1599-1600. Click on image to enlarge. Image (and a lengthy discussion of the painting) found here.With Good Friday being last night and Easter to co… Read More
2012-04-02 00:40
Marion Cotillard (left) and Owen Wilson in a typical shot from Midnight in Paris. Image found here.Midnight in Paris (2011; dir. Woody Allen).Thanks to my colleague (and film buff) Larry th… Read More
2012-03-23 14:19
Image found here.Well, we gave it a go. I can take some comfort in the knowledge that very, very few people picked Missouri to lose to Norfolk State; I'm pleased that I picked Lehigh to bea… Read More
2012-03-22 16:02
"To my astonishment, I was informed on leaving college that I had studied navigation!--why, if I had taken one turn down the harbor I should have known more about it." --Thoreau, Walden.Tho… Read More
2012-03-13 17:59
An ad that appeared in this morning's Washington Post. Despite the ad's immodesty, Virginia Commonwealth just might be able to back it up. Image found here.I've had nothing to say this sea… Read More
2012-03-10 13:12
Hello, reader(s). All is well here; just busy and lacking in things worthy of troubling you to consider reading.By some fluke, over the course of the fall and winter the Mrs. and I ended up… Read More
2012-02-11 17:39
Edward Hopper, Sunlight on Brownstones (1956). Image found here.Joseph Lorusso, Red Brick and Shadow (ca. 2000). Biography. Image found here.In yesterday's post, I mentioned that the WAM'… Read More
2012-02-11 13:34
An unidentified man looks at a jacquard tapestry of a Chuck Close self-portrait at the Austin exhibition in August of 2009. The original is a large image, so be sure to click to enlarge. H… Read More
2012-02-05 21:30
Sunset, Wichita, Kansas, January 20, 2012, by the Mrs. Click image to enlarge.It's pretty simple: Take a picture of the sunset each day of the year. This is the task that the Mrs. has set… Read More
2012-01-28 16:26
The famous caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks on the floor of the House of Representatives, May 22, 1856. The misplaced apostrophe aside, the caption (though quietly sympathizing wi… Read More
2012-01-23 15:06
Christopher Moore. Official website. Image found here.Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal.This is the first Christopher Moore novel I've read. It comes recommended… Read More
2012-01-11 01:42
Thanks, FailBlogIt's back to back-to-school meetings this week. The chief activity has been to coin yet another phrase for what we need to be doing that means "assessment" and yet sound dif… Read More
2012-01-07 15:55
For she was the maker of the song she sang.The ever-hooded, tragic-gestured seaWas merely a place by which she walked to sing.Whose spirit is this? we said, because we knewIt was the spirit… Read More
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