Not of General Interest

Historiann nails it, as usual, by calling out the gendered mommy politics of "Hillary, can you excite us? ".  I am sick to death ...

At the New York Times, Adam Grant suggests not being a "pre-crastinator" but a procrastinator. He used to write everything weeks ...

Here's some writing inspiration from prolific and popular authors, from what I've been reading during my lunch breaks. Lunch readi...

Happy New Year! The resolutions and memes are still going strong: Fie's ongoing series Flavia Fescue and JaneB have done the New ...

Both GetaLifePhD (" How to become more creative, focused, relaxed, and productive") and Fie have recently posted New Year's...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Turning into a cooking and cleaning machine for a couple of weeks is my favorite part of Christmas, e...

Over at LitHub, Rebecca Solnit has a follow-up to her recent and provocative "80 Books No Woman Should Read"  called "Men Ex...

Figure 1. Cary Grant does exactly what he's told to do. It's the end of the semester, and a lot of us are getting a little punch...

I was reading a post at Curmudgucation about all the information our shiny K12 education overlords now want to collect and datamine for the...

Happy Thanksgiving! I don't read much modern fiction (too much ancient stuff to unearth) and haven't read Jennifer Weiner, so I do...

*Poofed*

If you get put on a new committee because of your new rank, they don't ask you when you can be there; they just tell you. If you're...

Thinking of those in Paris and Lebanon and wishing them even more of the courage and the strength that they've shown to get past this ...

Flavia Fescue is right: "you should always ask."   In a quiet moment recently during an in-person exchange, I managed to ask an e...

Way back in 2008, in "English Department of the Future," I wrote this: GA: "Hmm. That's not good. Those 5 deserve be...

Figure 1. If you don't dress like this, maybe no one will notice your absence. For reasons I don't at all understand, this has b...

I should probably have called this "Ten weird tricks about lecturing" or "Lecturing: what you learn will shock you!" to ...

Our campus is exploding with events right now. Everyone is hosting a talk, or giving a talk, or organizing something for students.  Club mee...

There's an episode of Frasier in which the character Roz Doyle (on right) comes to a Halloween party as O from The Story of O. At one ...

I just learned from t he post over at Historiann's that today is International Podcast Day, so Happy Podcast Day! Historiann mentio...