Archive for October, 2007
You may have heard that it will soon be Islamo-Fascism week. This event is vile, disgusting, ignorant, reprehensible. Here is the Inside Higher Ed piece on it. And here’s a group of academics, rallying for the cause.
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Musical Miscegenation
My friend Sasha gave birth this week to his argument about musical miscegenation. The Ur text is this one here. Which you can also get in your paper NYer. Then extra bits include his NYer blog post, you can read here. And audiophiles will like the throaty interview here.
It is only fair [...]
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Memory Walk 2007
This Saturday Sunday I’ll be joining thousands of other New Yorkers in the Memory Walk to raise money for research on, and to raise awareness of, Alzheimer’s Disease. I’m participating in a group sponsored by my friend Marcel Agueros, and will be walking with his dad, who has the disease. There’s an easy-to-use [...]
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De La Vega
One of the things I miss living in Nashville is the presence of unsponsored art. We get some at Untitled (see blog roll) but that’s always happening in a pseudo-gallery space and is available only to those who (1) know about the events and (2) decide that seeing an unjuried art show is a [...]
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Dictators…Dicktators
I know you say there’s no gays in Iran, but you’re in New York now baby.
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Conferences, schompferances
Call for Papers and Proposals for the 66th MPSA Political Science Conference. April 3-6, 2008, Chicago Palmer House Hilton. Proposal Deadline: 10/10/2007. To submit a paper, a roundtable or to volunteer to serve as a chair or discussant, please go to http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/Conference/call2008.html
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A reminder that the deadline for abstract submissions for the 2008 Annual Meeting (New [...]
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Tick tock
Exploring Ways to Shorten the Ascent to a Ph.D.
Joseph Berger/The New York Times
To follow up on the earlier post viz Radiohead’s “free” album, here is a site tracking the price consumers chose to pay. I hope they’re legit, and circulating results, as they promised, ’cause I’d like you to go there and input your nos.
Finally, [...]
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Things I do make me a star.
That was great.
{How drunk is DMC toward the end? Man is wasted.} {Thanks to markey mark for this.}
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Tuesday is question day!
A very nice woman from the NEA gave me copies of their most recent research reports. In “The Arts and Civic Engagement: Involved in Arts, Involved in Life”, we find that arts participants are more physically active (than those who do not participate in the arts). In particular, “readers and arts participants exercise at nearly [...]
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