It is about god damned time something good happened.

I just noticed -- Knocked Up was pretty funny. 

So I read the actual flier attached to that History Channel job search ( Read more... )

Today: First time I received an email -- albeit on a listserve -- seeking an historian to audition for hosting duties on a History Channel program in pre-production. 

Indiana: Road work, boring, busy, Gary. Didn't see Bloomington, didn't drive fast to Tom Petty.  F ( Read more... )

So we all know, right, that Google reads our emails and advertises at us accordingly. Old news ( Read more... )

"The Chinese City again and again leaps to attention. Like the Chinese, it is unique. It is a series of satisfactions; not merely for the few, for the rich, for the well-to-do, but for everybody. It has color--flamboyant color of banners, streamers, flags, lanterns. It has sound--not only a babel of human voices, but cries of selling, song, and now ( Read more... )

I said I would never procrastinate again. I did.

My dear ( Read more... )

I think non-historians may underestimate the depth of the crisis represented by an inability to renounce Tolstoy. The new historicism is a dead-end. Strauss was right, Nietzsche was wrong. Read Steven Pinker and despair, all ye constructionists.