Last night, I finally saw The Other Dream Team, the documentary that proposes to tell the story of the 1992 Lithuanian Men’s Basketball Team that beat the Unified Team to win bronze at the Olympics in Barcelona. Of course, the story makes no sense without the necessary context of how this team, playing for the [...]
This blog will be getting a bit of a facelift as I incorporate it into my sort of “official” online presence. You may see that the URL has already changed, and more will come.
I’m involved in a few things online beyond this website, though it remains (I hope) the sort of nerve center, the sort of “if you only check one thing…” solution. As one can see on the sidebar, I also tweet as @muziejus, though I think anyone who reads this page already follows me there. Recently, [...]
I took two years off of blogging, passed my oral exams, failed to come up with a dissertation proposal, and am now teaching a class that can’t possibly have anything to do with my dissertation. I spent my time away from blogging by crypto-blogging elsewhere, but as that slowed down, so did I. And now [...]
Manan’s post around the time of the newest incarnation of the CM made me feel guilty for writing such a crappy site. But the problem is that in order for me to be more of an engaged, “academic blogger,” I have to first become more of an academic. So here’s this hiatus. It’s not that [...]