Procrastadabbler

I just returned from several days of hanging out on the Maine coast with some friends. Lots of walking, talking, some bike riding, good food, good wine. No work. Not even much reading even though I brought four books along. I did manage to finish The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet [...]

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Last night I watched the movie “Waitress.” It’s a sweet movie. I wouldn’t call it great, but it was definitely enjoyable to watch. Very much in the mode of “Like Water for Chocolate” “Chocolat” and “Babette’s Feast” where food represents the passions and dreams of the female creator. Anyway, throughout the movie, Jenna, the main [...]

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I don’t know why, but my Internet wanderings keep leading me to food. I don’t mean to end up there, but that’s what keeps happening.
Here are two foodsites that I find particularly yummy. http://www.amateurgourmet.com/and http://jewfood.blogspot.com/
As I mentioned before, I love food. I love to eat, I’ve lately come to discover that I love to cook [...]

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Yeah, most blogs are probably ranting about Bush this morning, but I’m not. I’m writing about the Post Punk Kitchen and the new literacies.
I love how the new literacies work and the fact that they aren’t (necessarily) independent of the old typographic literacies.
The New York Times is an old typographic newspaper. In fact it’s seems [...]

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Sometime this spring I realized I work too much. Teaching is demanding. For every hour I spend with students, I spend multiple hours planning and preparing. And then there’s the committee work. And service to the profession and community. And of course scholarly work, meaning research to be done and articles and chapters to write. [...]

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