September 2009
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Kate Bush - Suspended in Gaffa
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Editors - In This Light and On This Evening
postpunk:
The Top 35 Or So Songs of the 80’s
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postpunk:
The Top 35 Or So Songs of the 80’s
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strutting:
It’s 9 o’clock on the dot, and...
“The current obsession with cellular devices, electronic readers and digitization...”
– Robert Darnton, Harvard University library director, who claims that reports of the death of the book have been greatly exaggerated. On the other hand, he wrote about it in a book. But the point stands.
Also, you gotta love this introduction by Quillblog:
Despite Google’s “colonization of...
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The National - Available
Obviously I need some...
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The National - 90-Mile Water Wall
So how could...
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There’s a point to this, trust me
(via rogueclassicism)
In 1979, I sat in Dr. Richard Cutter’s early morning Greek class at Baylor University praying my professor would call on someone else to translate the homework passage from Plato.
My prayers were answered when he called on John. John was more clueless than I was in this second-year Greek class, but he took a gallant stab at translating the passage.
After five...
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I hate to be the cranky geezer, but sometimes...
Undergrad A: Do you know what ‘servile’ means?
Undergrad B: Wait, let me look it up.
Several topics a friend of mine and I came up...
Patriarchy 101: A Primer
Chauvinism and You
Maintaining Workplace Inequality
How to Objectify Women Tastefully
Bitches Ain’t Shit: An Introduction to Masculist Critical Theory
The Antlers - Shiva
Hundreds of thousands of...
nostomania
nostrich:
wordjournal:
noun • /nos-tuh-MAY-nee-uh, -mayn-yuh/ • (obsolete, rare) overwhelming homesickness, or desire to return to familiar places.
From Greek νόστος (nostos, “a return home”) + mania.
How appropriate. But I haven’t been homesick for a week now.
There’s always nostophobia, or nostocedia (nostos + acedia), which I just made up and means ‘indifference about home’.
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More ways with which grad school is eating my...
My translation work is taking up so much of my brainpower that my mind can’t handle listening to more than one song multiple times in a row.
Which means I’ve been listening to Better than Heaven for about two hours straight now, while reading Lucian’s essay about how he chose the path of Education and Culture over Sculpture and Industry. In a dream, Sculpture (represented as a manly, dusty,...
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We Were Promised Jetpacks - Ships With Holes Will...
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Dramarama - Anything, Anything (I’ll Give You)
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hey thanks, redux
me: Hi, I’d like a large mocha, please.
same barista from last week: All right. But I have a question for you. Do you want 16 ounces, or a quadruple-shot extra-large 20-ounce mocha?
me: (deliberates for a microsecond) Hi, I’d like an extra-large mocha, please. It’s 7 AM and I’m barely conscious.
sbflw: It gets better as the semester goes on.
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“It’s only a diagnostic test. Don’t agonize about it. Then again, you’re Classics...”
– A prof right before giving us our diagnostic test, translating four passages of Greek/Latin prose and poetry we’d never seen before, for the purposes of placement.
I agonized.