I was the youngest, my eyes closest to the dark cement floor. A blue Lucky Charms lollipop chosen from the red and blue ones offered. The translucent blue cellophane wrapper a little less than half the appeal. Wanting to join my father on the other side of the basement storm doors to see what was happening.
Much of the press Sebastián Silva’s move “Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus and 2012” has gotten this summer has focused on the film’s female lead, Gaby Hoffmann, and the fact that she did not require a merkin or other artificial follicular embellishment for her nude scenes.
Photo credit: Paul Townsend I It must have been 1969 when I heard the song “Hair” on the AM radio. The song begins when a woman asks a man why he is so hairy. It was the so-called Age of Aquarius, when tribes of hippies…
Photo credit: D. Sharon Pruitt (edited by B. Hate) I’ve taught college for nearly 30 years. I love it. I hate it. It was the first adult job I ever saw that I admired. I was a terrifically bad undergrad at a giant party school…
from 2006-2007, deep within the trenches ___ Photo credit: Sudhamshu 1. Do not give me Katrina-sized attitude because you do not want to take an English class. I did not make the core curriculum. If I had, you’d not only take more English courses but…
Photo credit: csessums Near the end of my sixth and last semester of law school, after the big fake courtroom drama that three of my friends and I (along with assorted fake witnesses, random undergrads recruited to serve as a fake jury, and a real…
Kid, have you rehabilitated yourself? Arlo Guthrie, “Alice’s Restaurant” One of the jobs I have on campus is serving on the Disciplinary Committee. I think we call it Student Rights and Responsibility Committee, but we dish out punishments to deal with students that violate university…
A recent public opinion poll shows that most adults feel that there were three important gaps in their education: financial literacy, public speaking, and compassion. Okay, it wasn’t a poll so much as me sending out an email to my friends asking them what they…
Photo credit: Juli From the Tawny, Scrawny Lion to the Bridge to Terabithia, You think you know what the world’s about ‘Til it’s torn out from underneath o’ ya’. I liked digging in the dirt And riding in the bed of the truck. But…
Photograph: Steve Back/Barcroft Media Education howlers are stupid things important people have said about education and below I’ve started a short list, utilizing a number randomizer to arrive at the number four (full disclosure: I limited the randomizer to numbers between 1 and 9), and I have…
[photo credit: Richard Rutter] Job Search Blues Things have been tough all over in the Humanities job market. Unfortunately, this doesn’t mean that job seekers are getting any better at hunting for a place to work. In fact, some of them have gotten progressively…
The Job Description Me: Why the hell are we looking for someone who does this shit? This first thing that an applicant needs to remember is that the purpose of the job search is not to change what a department does. It is to make…
Soon after the announcement goes out, the applications begin to roll in. Ours requested a cover letter, curriculum vitae, writing sample, letters of recommendation, and university transcripts. The last of these is to verify that our hire actually has the credentials