Well folks, here we are, back at that time again when the jobwiki has dissolved into petty bickering—this time over Machiavellian timed postings of a job in South Africa. The Chronicle is mourning the end of tenure itself (see “Tenure, RIP: What the Vanishing Status Means for the Future of Education” July 4, 2010, they [...]
Giving the talk….
Apr 23rd, 2010
I’ve been lucky enough to have the opportunity to give papers in a few different contexts, including local, national and international meetings. Each context has, without a doubt or exception, had a significant positive effect on my work. However, I must say, that the most beneficial settings are those that occur in local meetings. For [...]
No wonder it’s dark…
Apr 12th, 2010
There was a rather racist myth going around when I was young about the Vapor’s song “Turning Japanese.” However, the singer describes it (many years after he wrote it) as: “all the clichés about angst and youth and turning into something you didn’t expect to.“ This understood, it is quite a quaint song, a lament [...]
feast or famine
Mar 22nd, 2010
Currently it is the latter, but I am staying busy. I’ve got a couple of things submitted, one just about ready to come out of the oven and a proposal accepted for AMS Ithaca–for those of you in the know, it’s the latent theme idea. Going to the Vineyard this weekend. I’m going to do [...]
Theft, Borrowing, or just plain Rock and Roll?
Feb 13th, 2010
I love this song. Joe Jackson is fantastic and the song is so intimate, and just right. The stripped-down accompaniment, the clean sound, the plain old “in the box” chord progression: Describing the progression in Roman Numerals doesn’t really do it justice. VI – II – V – I implies an overall motion to [...]
Philadelphia.
Nov 20th, 2009
So everyone’s all excited about the meeting, well, those who went, well, those who went and posted something about it on their blogs. Strange, I saw a bunch of bloggers there who really aren’t saying anything. I guess if you don’t have anything nice to say…. There are some really nice pictures though. Ah well. [...]
Just because I have to…
Nov 12th, 2009
The AMS is this weekend—in Philadelphia. Great City, I can’t wait to see a few old friends, and maybe meet new ones. The program is, well, really odd. Of course Weber is not on it anywhere, but neither is Bach. There is no real new study of Beethoven, or Brahms. In fact, Jimi Hendrix gets [...]
Deco Dog
Nov 8th, 2009
This past summer as Alice and I were riding to a concert at the Hatch Shell, she yelled out “Daddy! a Dog!!” I stopped only to find the coolest Art-Deco Dog Fountain I’d ever seen (not that I’ve seen more than one Art-Deco Dog Fountain). After a little bit of searching around I found out [...]
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