Author Archives: George H. Williams

8 crazy nights

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Hanukkah starts tonight at sundown. Yo La Tengo kick off their annual 8-night run of Hanukkah shows at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, New Jersey. All shows are sold out. Sorry.

I tried to find some hip, contemporary Hanukkah music, but um…

young artists

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A silly, early ’90s video from a fun band. I used to play music with Sheila (the violin player) on the porch of her house in Little Five Points, in the ATL. There may have been some kind of curry and tofu, too. I can’t remember.

Meanwhile, 15 years later and a 2-hour drive away from that life, Sparkletonian young artist Arielle writes,

Rachel and I sat out on our stoop and we laughed about the people we had just met, looking out onto Main Street and I realized this was exactly what I had wanted to do, exactly what I had wanted from Spartanburg– to sit outside at night with a friend and a drink and laugh, and look at the people left on the street and entertain the idea that they all had something to offer, and that we would somehow meet them all.

Laughter, Joy, and Loneliness… Love and Hope and Sex and Dreams…

“We live here now”

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Tonight I made a stop on Main Street to see how Arielle and Rachel are doing, and to take a couple of pix with my less-crappy-than-before, but still-pretty-crappy camera phone. Seems to me like they’re having a blast.

on the street, looking in at the artists
Outside, looking in.

inside, looking out at the street
Inside, looking out.

Read about it here.

is there a ghost

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Random Bullets of Pure Blogging Gold:

  • I have not started a pseudonymous blog.
  • I have started seeing someone who just moved to Sparkletonia and heard about me via friends of hers who read my blog. Iowa and Missouri, I’m looking in your direction.
  • Remember when I said I wished I could find a cute indie rock girl? Mission accomplished. Or rather, she found me. I’m very happy.
  • I’m going to two regional eighteenth-century conferences in the coming weeks. I’m a little rusty at this. The first presentation concerns a posthumously published collection of sermons by George Whitefield. The second reflects on the intersection of the studies of oral and print cultures.
  • I’ll be giving a paper (my first!) at 4C’s in New Orleans next semester: “Depression, Anxiety, and Empathy in First-Year Writing Courses.”
  • Literary Theory is a blast to teach. My students rock.
  • This year’s National Coming Out Day festival was a great success.
  • I played a small but (I like to think) important role in getting my university to build a house for the local Habitat for Humanity affiliate.
  • The Hub Bub artists continue to make life in this town more interesting than it might otherwise be.
  • Thanks to all of you who commented recently. I wish I had time to respond to each comment. I’ll try to write something as time allows.
  • I’m trying to figure out what role blogging will play in my (academic and personal) life. I started blogging back in 2003 in part because I felt isolated in a new city, and somewhat frustrated by the circumstances of my life. In 2007, I am surrounded by good friends, (some affiliated with my university, and some not) and so I have a network of face-to-face people with whom to interact. This changes the nature of the blogging I (might) need to do. Thinking…