Category Archives: Music

Big, Big Weekend in Football Action and Picks

11/27/2009 – 12:07 pm

Whoa Nelly, it’s a big one this weekend. The Merseyside Derby, Ars*nal versus Chelski, and Villa versus Spurs. These games are big for different reasons. Everton need a win to move into a more comfortable spot in the table, and Liverpool need a win to get a foot back in the top four spots. [...]

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General Busyness

11/6/2009 – 1:41 pm

School goes fine, but busy. The classes I teach are going fairly well as we steam into the last third of the semester, but at this stage most students seems to be running out of gas and then it gets tricky. It’s always a bit of a mystery to figure out what motivates students to [...]

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Interesting Days

8/20/2009 – 12:09 pm

Well well well, it’s amazing what a couple days of games can do for you. BTW, before I launch into my knee-jerk reactions to the events I’ve witnessed, can I just say how utterly awesome it is to be a soccer fan in this country? Thanks to FSC and their network of channels, you [...]

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The Catch-Up Post

1/25/2009 – 12:42 pm

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The miserable news for readers and writers alike keeps coming in the first month of 2009. First, the news that Fantasy & Science Fiction is going from a monthly publication to bi-monthly; then the news that there will be no 2008 edition of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror; and then, on a [...]

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The Great Purge of 2009

1/8/2009 – 11:57 am

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To start the year, we’re getting rid of stuff we don’t use in order to make room for the inevitable influx of stuff that’ll be coming our way–although we’re going to try our damnedest to keep it to a minimum. We live in a small, old house without a lot of [...]

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Tell Tale Indeed

10/17/2008 – 9:24 am

I received some MP3 downloads from Amazon and decided to blow them on Bob Dylan’s newest, Tell Tell Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8. The early signs point to this being an album I’m glad I didn’t shell out any cold hard cash for. The one “tell tale sign” I can identify is that the [...]

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Standing the Test of Time

10/8/2008 – 10:34 pm

Before going forward with anything positive, I do want to say that I am generally displeased with the performance of my 80 GB iPod classic. I had some initial negative things to say, and there are more. I found out that you can indeed use Media Monkey to manage your iPod and that helped sort [...]

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A Former Loser and Lots of Current Losers

10/6/2008 – 8:54 pm

We saw Beck at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago on Thursday night and a good time was had by all. He opened with “Loser” and, surprisingly, played almost a dozen other songs before finally playing “Soul of a Man” off Modern Guilt. In fact, he only played five songs off his most recent album during [...]

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Things I Recommend

8/14/2008 – 11:40 am

I just finished Jonathan Culler’s Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction and really got a lot out of it. A professor recommended this book to our class and since I’m theory-weak, I figured I would check it out. Culler not only explains what theory is and isn’t, he also succinctly explains how and why theory [...]

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Euro 2008 – Warming Up Nicely

6/8/2008 – 4:05 pm

Watching Germany vs. Poland, Andy Gray summed up the first two days of action by saying that the tournament was “warming up nicely.” Couldn’t agree more.
Strange that in four games we have had the same two score lines of 1-0 and 2-0. Four shut outs is unusual. No draws in four games is unusual. There [...]

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