So why can’t I search the catalogue of the British Library this weekend? wtf? I’ve got work to do! If you claim to be the repository of the “World’s Knowledge,” shouldn’t you keep your site up and running?
grrr!
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18th-C British Religious Periodicals
Making my work public, dear reader, I provide for your reading pleasure a couple of questions I’ve just posted to c18-L, the email discussion group for eighteenth-century studies:
here’s the panel i’ll be on…
…at ASECS 2005:
Panel Title:ÝÝ Between Anachronism and Antiquarianism: 18th-Century
Experiences and 21st-Century Interpretations
Chair:Ý Jeffrey S. Ravel, MIT
Paper 1: Kevin Berland, Pennsylvania State University, “The Author vs. the Archive: Historiographical Problems in William Byrd’s Dividing Line Histories”
Paper 2: Carol Martin, Texas State University-San Marcos, “From Fascinated Gaze to Fetishistic Construction: A Reading of Antiquarianism and Anachronism in the Context of 18th Century Studies”
Paper 3: Downing Thomas, University of Iowa, “Staging Early French Opera”
Paper 4: George H. Williams, University of Missouri-Kansas City, “Rewriting Religious History: the Case of Methodism”
I’m still putting waiting to hear from those I’ve accepted for the panel I’m chairing, so I can’t post those titles yet, but it looks like it’s going to have some great papers. Info to come later.
creativity and collaboration
Blogging enriches my life.
Note, something weird is going on with the links in this entry. I’m not sure why, but Safari did something to them when I was editing… I’ll try to fix later.
Exhibit A: I had a few drinks with some KC Bloggers on Thursday night: M. Toast, Patrick, Joe, Jen, Eric, and two other folks who either don’t blog, or whose blogs aren’t listed on KC Bloggers, so I won’t mention them by name. We talked about music, good books read recently, and computers.
Exhibit B: I ran into my favorite local comic artist, Parrish, at Muddy’s Coffee yesterday morning, and we talked for about ten minutes on the magical creature known as cat. The only way I know Parrish (and Bonnie, who works at Muddy’s) is through his blog (and through his comic “Sparrow’s Fall”). This was the first somewhat extended conversation we’ve ever had, and yet I felt like I already sort of knew him, and had a sense of his personality.
Exhibit C: I’ve never met Weez, except through our blogs. We IM from time. She’s recording blog entries as audio posts, and I’ve remixed one of them with music (MP3, about 2M).
I feel like I’m finally finding a voice. I love my job. But my life is much larger than my job.
“they only answer, more, more,more…”
A woman whose son was killed in Iraq showed up at a speech by Laura Bush to voice her unhappiness about his death. Mrs. Bush listened thoughtfully, and the other members of the audience expressed their condolences and thanked her for the sacrifice made by her son in the service of a cause they continue to support.
Wait… I’m sorry. It seems I’ve gotten just a few of the details wrong.
It turns out that Mrs. Bush ignored the woman, the other audience members started chanting “Four more years!” (of the deaths of young American soldiers perhaps?), and the woman was led away in handcuffs.
Welcome to America.