Not of General Interest

Like a good portion of the rest of the country, Northern Clime is getting snow. In April. Every day. Snow. What is it Bill Murray says? ...

   COVID, now with new and improved Omicron 2.0, is still flourishing here and elsewhere. British Airways had their flight crews take off ma...

  First, some writing house inspiration, courtesy of Wendell "I don't need a computer" Berry: "Hidden in the woods on a ...

 I was recently scrolling through Shedworking ( https://www.shedworking.co.uk/ ), a UK* site for hopes and dreams about writing houses, when...

 It's become a (semi? quasi?) annual tradition to post from MLA, and although I skipped last year, here's what it looks like in this...

Answer: Ha! not even close to over. On the other hand, we can now get vaxxed AND boosted AND have good masks available, though few or no rap...

 First, some writing inspiration from Paul McCartney in The New Yorker: " As McCartney recalls, “George would say, ‘Be here at ten, t...

 UCSB says, "heck, yes!" https://www.independent.com/2021/10/28/architect-resigns-in-protest-over-ucsb-mega-dorm/ Short version: ...

You've doubtless seen this one: Robert Kolker's  "Who is the Bad Art Friend?" in the  NYTimes Magazine.  Here's the sh...

 I know I wrote about this last time, but about conferences: can we just not? Conference 1. Recently, for a conference in a month or two, I ...

 Over at IHE, Joshua Kim asks whether  we're ready to go back to conference travel and whether we have any conference travel planned fo...

 Inspired by Dame Eleanor and xykademiqz , a 5-minute post.  Let's see--what's positive? My campus wants people to get vaccinated. ...

Seriously, Joey Tribbiani ( Friends ) & those associations aside, how are you doing?   I ask because we're supposed to be all over t...

In " Why People Are So Awful Online," Roxane Gay pinpoints something that we've been talking about for a while and completely...

Long time, no see! Following xykademiqz and gwinne , here's a 5-minute update post: Even if I don't get any vacation again this year...

An anecdote, or maybe a parable, about academe.  If you have a large extended family, and that large extended family has gatherings periodic...

 At first I didn't click on Adam Grant's "There's a Name for the Blah You're Feeling " because I thought it was my...

 No, this is not a Matthew Arnold fan post. It's about meanness for the sake of meanness on the interwebs. You may have seen this a few ...

Some things are looking up. They really are. Want proof? People are getting vaccinated (including me, hooray!). The days are getting longer....

What usually happens in the spring? Pay attention to conference calls for papers. Go to meetings on campus. Prep class. Grade papers. Try to...