A few random items, because that’s how my mind rolls on a Wednesday: Last week’s episode of 30 Rock was pretty stellar. Not only do we get the return of the Beeper King, but we also learn a new term for laughing so hard you pee your pants: “lizzing,” as in laughing + whizzing. Btw, [...]
Category Archives: Muffins
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01-Apr-09New York Sucks
12-Jun-08I was going to head out to do work someplace besides the single room that constitutes my office/bedroom/living room/kitchen, and then I heard that the (unfortunately re-named) Hopscotch Cafe (formerly Alt Coffee) has closed! Though I sort of missed the anarchist decor of the Alt Coffee days (couches with no springs, piles of broken computer [...]
I’ve been enjoying this song by Andrew Bird called Tables and Chairs. It’s a nice corrective to the kind of ascetic-activist denial-of-fun to which I and some of my political co-conspirators can be prone. (Who said that thing about if I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution?) The song ends: [...]
We’re In a Warehouse
16-Apr-08There was some interesting conversation about student evaluations over at Scatterplot a bit ago. One thought I’d add to the conversation — in some cases (I’ve had this experience) what is so upsetting about negative student evaluations (especially public ones, or public sites like Ratemyprofessor), is that they are right. Or at least touch on [...]