Lecture Lessons

Two interesting notes from my Shakespeare professor:
1) Today she told us that a Manhattan cocktail is named after the brown tap water of the City.
2) An assistant professor was drunk and playing “Never Have I” at a faculty party. He confesses to never having read Hamlet. The next day he was fired.
That’s hard core.

Racecar

Lately there has been this visiting scholar who comes and sits in the office to read his newspaper and drink his coffee. He is from England and when we first met he told me that my name was a palindrome.
Too hot to hoot, I said.
He then told me that he was surprised that I knew [...]

A blog is a performance.

A blog is a performance.
The first sentence of this blog: a blog is a performance. Thus, whatever I set out to do here is written with the idea that someone is going to read, witness, judge, and move on. However, I’ve told myself for a long time that I need to get off my ass [...]