I was fortunate to have my colleague, Kim Middleton, point me to a quick note in the Chronicle of Higher Ed about the higher rates of collaboration between digital humanities scholars that really highlights one of the touch points of this on-going negotiation for faculty. Thanks, Kim!
"The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness!" ~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Thursday, April 30, 2009
BitchBuzz: Hi-Tech TNG
I was fortunate to have my colleague, Kim Middleton, point me to a quick note in the Chronicle of Higher Ed about the higher rates of collaboration between digital humanities scholars that really highlights one of the touch points of this on-going negotiation for faculty. Thanks, Kim!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
NYC and Beckett

It was a interesting production. The difficult things with stars is that it's hard to see them as anything but themselves. As good as Bill Irwin and Nathan Lane are, you can't really forget that they're who they are and not really Didi and Gogo, although I completely believed their adventures. The clowning aspects in particular came off well -- the hat sequence and the (apparently) fortuitous popping off of Lane's hat into Irwin's hands. Wonderful! Goodman, too, was wonderful, but you couldn't stop seeing him as Goodman.
Glover, however, made me forget who he was. He was Lucky. He took up this often stylized part and made it both shocking and real. I have a beef against Glover because I really didn't like his audio book version of The Thief of Always, but I suppose it's time to let that go and let him get beyond Lionel Luthor.

I hung out in Central Park and watched the people who crammed the park playing and relaxing, before heading back to Grand Central and the train via the cramped and sweaty subway. I got some lovely cards from Papyrus which I plan to use and enjoy, and drove back from Poughkeepsie listening to Robyn Hitchcock (yes, still!).
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Mused in Print
I will write a recap of NYC and the play as soon as possible, but I wanted to pass along the news that Mused has made print versions of their magazine available via Lulu (ah yes, the flexibility of POD!) and of particular interest will be:
Spring 2008
Cover: Shades of Rock by Jill Florio
Art and Photography
Geometrica Sfumatura by Dan Florio
Hôtel Métropole by Melissa Demiguel
Fiction
You Can´t Take It With You by Kim Kenney
Heart Surgery by Jennifer Tiszai
Non-Fiction
Give Me Credit! by Sheila Sproule
Scars by Kimi Ross
Poetry
Three Fates by Patricia Maulding
A Soul´s Oasis by Cynthia Parker
Play
Bell by K. A. Laity
Fall Equinox 2008
Cover: Mountains by William Gibbons
Interview
Karen Allen
Poem
Those Distant Dogs byCatherine Van Herrin
Fiction
My Jekyll and Hyde by Bushra Farooqui
Play
Book by K. A. Laity
Non-Fiction
Save Me! by Jacquelyn Richey
N.B.: I do plan to getting around to that third play in this set, Candle, soonish, but as you know, I'm always knee deep in deadlines and duties at the end of the semester, so I have no idea when. I always imagine summer stretching out in front of me as a time of blissful idleness, but the truth is I'm teaching a three-week summer intensive and traveling a lot, so I may not fit in everything I dream I will do. But I am thinking seriously about getting a little net book for travel.
Cover: Shades of Rock by Jill Florio
Art and Photography
Geometrica Sfumatura by Dan Florio
Hôtel Métropole by Melissa Demiguel
Fiction
You Can´t Take It With You by Kim Kenney
Heart Surgery by Jennifer Tiszai
Non-Fiction
Give Me Credit! by Sheila Sproule
Scars by Kimi Ross
Poetry
Three Fates by Patricia Maulding
A Soul´s Oasis by Cynthia Parker
Play
Bell by K. A. Laity
Cover: Mountains by William Gibbons
Interview
Karen Allen
Poem
Those Distant Dogs byCatherine Van Herrin
Fiction
My Jekyll and Hyde by Bushra Farooqui
Play
Book by K. A. Laity
Non-Fiction
Save Me! by Jacquelyn Richey
N.B.: I do plan to getting around to that third play in this set, Candle, soonish, but as you know, I'm always knee deep in deadlines and duties at the end of the semester, so I have no idea when. I always imagine summer stretching out in front of me as a time of blissful idleness, but the truth is I'm teaching a three-week summer intensive and traveling a lot, so I may not fit in everything I dream I will do. But I am thinking seriously about getting a little net book for travel.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
BitchBuzz: 21st C Women's Studies
Suggestions welcome!
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Belated Easter

Sunday, April 19, 2009
Unikirja on Amazon!
Although it currently shows it as "temporarily out of stock" that should be changed very soon. You can order now and it will be shipped within days I'm told. Wheeee!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
BitchBuzz: Terminated
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Publication: Heofen rece swealg
This was the paper I gave at the conference in London, Ontario in October 2007, where Terry Jones of the Pythons was the keynote speaker and all around bon vivant. Great conference and hey, a publication *and* a Python out of it. Who could ask for more?
Monday, April 13, 2009
New Orleans Pix
Thursday, April 09, 2009
BitchBuzz: Sic Semper Baconis
Down here at PCA things are jumping. We had a long day getting here, but we had plenty of time to catch up with Miss Wendy and check into our room before the first set of panels. A little Abita and dinner at the Palace Cafe later, I think we're all ready to sack out due to the unaccustomed early start.
With luck, tomorrow brings Pat and Petunia's!
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Two weeks to Unikrja

Available for sale in just TWO WEEKS! Hurrah! I will be scheduling a reading at East Line Books in late April or early May. Whoo hoo!
All right, no time to be giddy. Loads to do before heading to New Orleans at dawn tomorrow.
Sunday, April 05, 2009
Write Here @ Arts Center
We hadn't been to the Art Center before -- conveniently located across the street from Market Block Books, an independent bookseller -- but it's a great space. Of course it made it much more pleasant to immediately run into Robyn Ringler, proprietor of East Line Books and hardest-working bookseller/writing promoter in the Hudson Valley. Robyn is such a joy to be around.
The panel itself seemed to be aimed more at beginning writers, while a large part of the audience really got involved once the topics turned to promoting your writing and networking with others. I was kind of staggered by one panelist mentioning that she had been working on her novel for fifteen years (but hey, she has an agent and I don't so what should we conclude from this?). The panelists seemed to be less oriented toward the practical side of writing, but I was among a number of people from the audience who shared tips about promoting and networking using the internet (it all comes back to karma! help other people and they will help you, too. Focus only on me-me-me and no one will care).
Thanks to Megha Godambe for the invite!
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Publication: Thank you, Facebook. May We Have Another?
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Not a Joke!
Who's a Fool?

Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
And smale fowles maken melodye,
That slepen al the night with open ye,
(So priketh hem nature in hir corages:
Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages...
Must be spring! [h/t ThejoeyZone]
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