Question for the audience

31Mar09

Although I wouldn’t say you’ve been demonstrating an aching desire for interactive blog chatter (ahem), this might flush you out of the reeds.  Answer my friend’s question, in the style of those word games from The Atlantic:
Let’s say you are a male junior faculty member standing at a urinal in the small bathroom in your [...]

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Say what?

31Mar09

Jonathan recommends you download the iTunes free song, especially if you use it as your ringtone.

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Yes, you are sexy people

31Mar09

At the sexy people blog.

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I shouldn’t be surprised

27Mar09

…but the fact that a group of bands (Saliva, Burn Halo, Framing Hanley, and Theory of a Deadman) are actually holding a Dirty Tourney levels me.

Do you have what it takes to be crowned the Queen of Unclean? Prove it.
Submit pics and your profile between 3/25 and 4/2 and tell us why you or your [...]

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Robert Pattinson/Kurt Cobain/Pete Doherty

27Mar09

Ok, 50 animals who hate baths.

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What I wish I’d Known About Tenure (not me, her)

27Mar09

From Inside Higher Ed:
1. Tenure is like gambling
2. Tenure is like joining a fraternity
3. A tenure case is like swiss cheese
4. Your tenure chances are probably grey
5. Tenure failure is like heart disease
6. Maybe you don’t want this job
7. Watch out! Don’t sell your soul
8. You could sue
9. Tenure isn’t everything.

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Things I Like

25Mar09

This is a yearly tradition over here at WITW.  The students in my Intro Soc class complete a survey and I post the results.  They respond to these four prompts:
1. Things I Like About Being (in my ethno-racial group):
2. Things I Don’t Like About Being (in my ethno-racial group):
3. Things I Like About (a group [...]

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Hurry up, already. I haven’t got all day.

25Mar09

I almost sucker punched the woman in line ahead of me at CVS yesterday, so this really made me laugh:
A Department of the Interior report released Wednesday stated that there are 6 trillion such instances that could not possibly go any slower if they tried, some of which include budget meetings, shaving, the act of [...]

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What I actually hear, when you talk to me.

24Mar09

Suggestions for applications to the academic context welcome.

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Not only for men.

24Mar09

Wonderfully true observations, via Chris Uggen and his Minnisystem:
Six Mistakes Of Man
“There are six mistakes of life that many of us make,” said a famous writer. They are so well-founded that we are sharing them with you:
1. The delusion that individual advancement is made by crushing others.
2. The tendency to worry about things that cannot [...]

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