I’ve arrived at the hotel where I’ll be staying for tomorrow’s job interview at Further School (as opposed to Nearer School, where I interview next week). I don’t want to say more about where I currently am, since the details of job searches are sensitive information, but I will say that the weather’s absolutely beautiful, […]
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…with the interview, Dorothea!
Because it’s been ages since I posted anything from the commonplace-book… Four A.M. The hour between night and day. The hour between toss and turn. The hour of thirty-year-olds. The hour swept clean for rooster’s crowing. The hour when the earth takes back its warm embrace. The hour of cool drafts from extinguished stars. The […]
I came home from a midday expedition downtown expressly to listen to the last Met radio broadcast of the season; this weekend it’s La Clemenza di Tito, and we’re now at the intermission. How fabulously dark the end of Act 1 is. The audience digs Anne-Sofie von Otter, and so do I. There are other […]
I have two job interviews in two states a couple of time zones apart, both coming up in the next two weeks. It’s amazing how news of this kind arrives in multiples. I’d be wondering why my (metaphorical) stock mysteriously went up overnight, except I know that the logical explanation is that I’ve been sending […]
I meant to blog this amazing New Yorker story about the Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters, conservation, digital imaging, and supercomputers, but, preoccupied by other things, I forgot. Fortunately, Ramage spotted it too. Also from Ramage: GoogleMontage, a site that creates instant photo-montages by automatically combining images from Google when you feed it some search […]
Self-portrait as a South Park character, courtesy of the South Park Studio (linked to by so many people at this point that I forget where I saw it first).
Oh, lord. Remember this story about the egregious book-banning bill? It’s back (link via LISNews). Is anyone else thinking that homophobia makes people certifably insane? I mean, this is nuts. It’s loony. The fact that this bill is still around suggests to me that someone has been putting hallucinogens into Alabama state legislature’s drinking water. […]
Trailers for the Firefly movie! Fellow Joss Whedon fans, rejoice! (Via Making Light and TangognaT.) You know, I didn’t really get into "Firefly" when it was on TV. Fox’s addlebrained decision to show the episodes out of sequence made the storylines hard to follow, and the cinematography was too dark to look good on my […]
Brief summary of what’s in my head right now: Major decisions to be made, and soon. Mild panic over timing. General sense of life shifting on its axis. (I don’t want to go into more detail until the decisions are made, so that’s all I’m going to say at present, except that it’s good rather […]