Via Crooked Timber, a report from Florida on a bill aimed to curb "leftist totalitarianism" in the classroom and prevent "a misuse of [professors’] platform to indoctrinate the next generation with their own views." Now, I’m pretty left in my political views. When I taught, I had students who were proud members of the College […]
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So, the longer report on Tuesday’s concert with Katarina Karnéus: Thanks to the luck of the Tuesday Evening Concert Series ticket-buying procedure, wherein if you aren’t a subscriber you have to get on a waiting list and then they give you the first sold-back tickets they can find for you, I got a seat in […]
Very quick summary of today: Phone interview: not quite sure how it went. Think it was all right, but won’t hear until next week. Library discussion group this afternoon (topic: folksonomies and social tagging): neato. News received later this afternoon re: other job applied for: encouraging. Very encouraging. After-work pool game at Orbit: fun despite […]
Tomorrow’s going to be a big day. In the evening I’m going to hear Katarina Karnéus give a recital at Old Cabell Hall. I’ve never heard her sing, but the program looks marvelous (Mahler, Strauss, Grieg, a few bits from my favorite Baroque guys here, a dash of Weill there). And for once I lucked […]
Herewith, the results of the pseudo-aria contest. Though, really, since I couldn’t pick any one entry, it’s more like the caucus-race in Alice in Wonderland, in which everybody has won, and all must have prizes. Anyway, the winners are: “Come vergine”: simile aria from a baroque opera by Handel, in which the hero (countertenor) compares […]
Check out this exhibit of hand bookbindings through the ages from Princeton University Library. Among the highlights: disappearing fore-edge decoration (scroll to the bottom of this page for an explanation of how it’s done); books meant to be attached to your belt; a sixteenth-century book satchel from Ethiopia; lovely embroidery; and recycled manuscripts used as […]
Over at About Last Night, Our Girl in Chicago wants to see more close reading in the blogosphere. As a still card-carrying member of the Partnership of English Majors (tm Garrison Keillor), I’m happy to oblige, but first I’ve got a frantically busy week to finish. Actual exegesis to follow eventually (as will the results […]
Thanks to le blogue de Rana en français, I see that this blog, in French, is Opéra de ménage. C’est drôle, n’est-ce pas? Did I ever post about Edward Gorey’s The Blue Aspic, which recounts the rise of a soprano named Ortenzia Caviglia and the parallel decline of Jasper Ankle, her most insanely devoted fan? […]
If you haven’t yet visited the New York Public Library Digital Gallery, you must. Among many other things, it offers the joy of serendipitous image-discovery. I browsed around the collections for a while and then tried a keyword search for "snow." I used the selection tool to grab everything that looked particularly interesting, and ended […]
You who read this blog regularly know I can’t resist any meme involving poetry, and hence it was only a matter of time before I succumbed to the Ten Poems meme. The idea is to post ten poems that represent what you want to write. Here are a rapidly-chosen ten of mine: John Ashbery, "Wet […]