Spent part of this oppressively-warm day on the Isle of Palms, sitting on the long, lovely beach, kicking waves, relaxing, and watching the Hobbit play happily with his grandmother — who has thankfully given us a respite from some of our parenting duties. It was truly wonderful. Of course, I …
I bought a cellphone an iPhone today. No joke. Not only have I succumbed at long last and joined the cellphone zombie horde, I decided to go in with a bang by picking up the cutting-edge, just-released-today 32GB iPhone 3GS. And I have to say: it is extraordinary. But that’s …
A couple days ago, one of my students asked me how I thought the Denver Broncos would do this coming year. I didn’t answer. One of the beautiful things about the NFL, of course, is that one never knows what will happen on the proverbial “any given Sunday,” so I’m …
In my last post I included a clip from “one of the two best Hamlets on film.” The second one, in case you were wondering, is this short masterpiece, which comes up at least once every term:
I’ve been teaching summer school for a few weeks, which is a much bigger drain on my time and energy than I would have imagined, and we’ve now reached the point in the term where we delve into Shakespeare. Due to a failure on someone’s part — not sure where …