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Another Commonplace: Entering the Third Dimension

Abstract (or, if you’d prefer, tl;dr): Writers and readers, in their own fashion, succumb to the seven deadly sins: Wrath, Avarice, Sloth, Pride, Lust, Envy, and Gluttony. In the following, I detail some hazards, if not mortal sins, of my research process. Writing about Medieval Central Asia and the Mongol Empire has been a great opportunity to follow a trail of literature and discover many…

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Prague Literary Calendar

https://prague-literary-events.notion.site/Prague-Literary-Calendar-846ba376c71e487fb6f838f30b782cac?pvs=4

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Prague Literary Calendar

https://export.calendar.online/ics/0/65fb73448a95a8aba78d/pragueliterarycalendar.ics?past_months=3&future_months=36

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Square Mile Coffee

The Flat Café in Vršovice, Prague I’m a fan of James Hoffman, and it seems not the only one in Prague. The Flat Café carries Square Mile coffee. S. at the Vrsovice café and I talked about favorite Hoffman YouTubes when I visited. It also qualifies as a literary venue because of its “No laptops/No studying” signs.

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Prague Cafés

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A Play Reading at the Globe Bookstore

Joe Grim Feinberg, a fellow member of the Globe Creative Writing Group, just had his play published. To celebrate he had a play reading held at the Globe Bookstore last night. The play, Praise Boss: Labor’s Loves Lost, contained lots of antic humor and rousing Wobbly (as in International Workers of the World) rhetoric. That’s me wielding the guitar, Joe giving directions, and poet Lucien Zell…

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Petrohradska Club

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Pittsburgh Signs Redux

I’ve always wanted to see if The Wayback Machine had any Pittsburgh Signs materials. It does, lots. https://web.archive.org/web/20090106021855/http://pittsburghsigns.org/archives/2004/11/the-electric-ba.html

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Croatia

The view from a café in Pakoštane.

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Tree Talk

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And now we dance!

And now we dance!

twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1528595337530703873 Washington Post article by Starre Vartan on the benefits of dance.

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What are the Chances?

What are the Chances?

After nearly seven years in Prague I still keep finding things. Walking down to Vrsovice, I spotted one of those art vending machines (née cigarette vending machines). What are the chances I would have fifty crowns with me to feed the Artmat? I’ve been thinking about the surrealist concept of hasard objectif and how random nature provides meaningful information. Things just keep showing up.

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Inspiring Spaces

I’m not feeling it this morning, not that I should have to feel it to get work done. In any case, I’m thinking of inspiring spaces. I’m very grateful for the space I have but I also like to think of other people’s spaces, all the while knowing how little affect it might have on getting work done. This is from a Home Designing article called “Funky Spaces with Artistic Flair.” I have no idea what…

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It’s #ElectionCollection Tuesday! The theme for this week is Pop Culture. Whether it was being a part of the first televised presidential debate, his appearance on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, or his portrait by Andy Warhol, Richard Nixon holds a special place in American popular culture. Here are some humorous Politicards playing cards from our museum collections. They date from about 1972 and feature the First Family, Dr. Henry Kissinger, and Vice President Agnew. @usnatarchives @americanexperiencepbs (at Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum)

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Canal Street Print By Matte Stephens

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An Inspiring Four-Step Process For Formulating and Capturing Important Ideas 

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Universities fought unionization's 'one-size-fits-all' using identical arguments

The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that grad students working at private universities can form unions, something that the universities themselves have fought tooth-and-nail for years, with elite universities posted FAQs explaining why trade unionism was a bad match for academic institutions: that each academic institution was unique, and so unlike any other place, that collective bargaining just couldn’t work.

Ironically, America’s elite universities all made near-identical arguments about their sui generis nature, so similarly worded that I wouldn’t give odds that the people who wrote them would survive their employers’ anti-plagiarism standards.

http://boingboing.net/2016/08/25/universities-fought-unionizati.html