A J&B ad campaign showed up in France a few years ago, and I again saw one of the ads today. The whisky ad features two tag lines. The first, “So British!”, is also how the local press likes to describe Kate Middleton. The second tag line translates to “Born in London, distilled in Scotland.” [...]
This early February speech, by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the presidential candidate for the Front de gauche, a left-wing coalition in France, has been helpfully subtitled in English: Jean-Luc Mélenchon Discours de Villeurbanne Eng… par kominaaa Jean-Luc Mélenchon Discours de Villeurbanne Eng… par kominaaa If you only have time for one part of the speech, I recommend [...]
I already tackled Megan (now) Draper’s (winning) French-Canadianness when she sang “Il était un petit navire” to the Draperinos back at the end of season 4 of Mad Men. Further, the internet already melted down over the subsequent French song Jessica Paré chose to sing for the show, so I don’t need to touch on [...]
I may also mention that the book was written… where the libraries are not well equipped for European studies… Hence it is possible and even probable that I overlooked things which I ought to have considered and that I occasionally assert something which modern research has disproved or modified… On the other hand it is [...]
Continue reading about Erich Auerbach on scholarship in the post-Library.nu era
— Le vieux Paris n’est plus (la forme d’une ville Change plus vite, hélas! que le cœur d’un mortel Escúchela, la ciudad respirando In honor of an article I had run in The Classical, “Paris is Earning,” I watched Paris brûle-t-il ? earlier this week. The 1966 movie, with a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola [...]
Given that class rules everything around me, I knew that Downton Abbey would be like a drug, and I watched the first series last spring in one sitting. While upstairs/downstairs plots always fascinate me for obvious reasons, Downton Abbey had the added appeal of presenting us a family in decline as aristocratic privilege gives way [...]
Why is it that when I search for a specific article on Google Scholar, all of the first hits lead me to pay repositories, despite the fact that the journal, published by the U.S. government, is free for all?
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[This post is a slightly enhanced version of an email I sent to the Humanist mailing list today in response to this message asking about the value of GIS curriculum in scholarship. Here, I begin by quoting the relevant parts of the original post] At my university, a vice president has been arguing that there [...]
[This is straight up comedy jokes for 1600 words. Those who've read both authors and Dreiser should be more or less in stitches all the way through. Sinclair even gets a good joke off at Joyce’s expense. The review ran in New Masses in April 1930, and though I'm not sure if it's out of [...]
Continue reading about Upton Sinclair reviews The 42nd Parallel
I write this shameful post as someone who has taken more than a week’s worth of statistics classes (and gotten ok grades). And after I spent all night last night trying to figure out a way to have the answer below make sense, I figure it makes sense to try to put the answer online. [...]