I don’t know if they want me rooting for them, seeing as how that was little help against the Bears’ defense today for the Saints. But I gotta admit, I gave up on the Colts today. I even said to Pattie, “You know what ticks me off? I wanted a good game most of all, […]
It’s hitting the Australian papers that what was previously thought to be a Neil Finn solo record is now going to be an official Crowded House project, with a 12-month world tour to go with it. Word on the official frenz.com message board is that Mark Hart is involved with the project, and since I […]
So I had my first week back in grad school, this time working on a Master’s in Education. Right now I’m writing this blog entry because I have writer’s block on a short reflection paper I’m supposed to write about who I am and why I want to teach. I’m staring at the blank screen […]
I tell you, as someone who teaches and takes a possibly-unhealthy number of college courses, I thank my lucky stars that Amazon.com and other online booksellers have managed to thrive. At Temple, the university bookstore frequently marks up texts to the point that the used copies are close to – and sometimes more than – […]
The Audacity of Hope is something of a published stump speech – a collection of broad proposals, general principles, and personal anecdotes that gives the reader a sense of where Barack Obama would like the country to go, but not a lot of specifics about how to get there. By no means is it a […]
Interesting post at TVWeek about Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof’s announcement that the producers were talking to ABC about when to bring Lost to an end. I’d read the story elsewhere, but the blog entry is the first indiciation that maybe ABC wasn’t quite so on board with making any pronouncements. Down the hallway, ABC […]
Chris Bowers at myDD has been beating the change-the-party-from-the-inside drum for years, and he’s backed up the talk, running for and winning seats on the city and state Demcoratic committees. His report from the latest state meeting primarily concerns the loyalty-over-everything attitude of the Philadelphia party leadership. This is a really important story, especially since […]
On Friday I picked up two more academic IDs, bringing my collection of currently-valid university IDs to 4. I feel like one of those con men you see in movies who have bundles of fake IDs for every contingency. Except that mine all have my real name and the same goofy “I don’t want to […]
I don’t think I’ve ever been less disappointed by an Eagles playoff loss than I was tonight. They played a good game. They had a couple of opportunities that they didn’t take advantage of, but that’s always the way it goes. (I just hope Stephen A. Smith doesn’t find a way to turn this game […]
So yesterday Pattie sends me a story that suggests that our teachers were on to something when they told us to go with our first instinct: Quick Decisions Might Be the Best. Then today, I read that a scientist conducting a five-year study on procrastination released the report five years past his deadline to tell […]