The best grass-cutting essay that I've read in a LONG time!
04 September 2010
03 September 2010
A recommendation for NEXT year's first year students' orientation...
...have them learn and sing repeatedly en masse the chorus to "Five Years," the opening track of David Bowie's landmark 1972 album Ziggy Stardust:
"We've got five years, that's all we got!
Five years, my brain hurts a lot!
Five years...
Five years..."
If that doesn't help the six-year completion rate stats, nothing will!
"We've got five years, that's all we got!
Five years, my brain hurts a lot!
Five years...
Five years..."
If that doesn't help the six-year completion rate stats, nothing will!
After one week as not chair, here's what I'm NOT doing nearly as much as I used to (most good, some not)...
1. Answering my phone
2. Signing my name and dating forms
3. Being visited by students, faculty, and/or staff to sign and date said forms
4. Making decisions about students not in my own classes
5. Telling people no
6. Talking to Darlene and Min (: (
7. Staying late in the office
8. Teaching distracted by chair issues and, as a result, less effectively (or that's my perception thus far; my students may disagree!)
9. Getting mail
10.Attending departmental committee meetings as an ex officio member
2. Signing my name and dating forms
3. Being visited by students, faculty, and/or staff to sign and date said forms
4. Making decisions about students not in my own classes
5. Telling people no
6. Talking to Darlene and Min (: (
7. Staying late in the office
8. Teaching distracted by chair issues and, as a result, less effectively (or that's my perception thus far; my students may disagree!)
9. Getting mail
10.Attending departmental committee meetings as an ex officio member
02 September 2010
What kind of slogan is that?!
Driving behind a DATTCO bus recently an saw their slogan:
Now, along with actually putting the customer LAST in this list (a bad sign, no?), the slogan also focuses way too much on themselves.
I say chuck the whole thing and go, much more simply and catchier, in a different direction:
our buses
our people
& you
Now, along with actually putting the customer LAST in this list (a bad sign, no?), the slogan also focuses way too much on themselves.
I say chuck the whole thing and go, much more simply and catchier, in a different direction:
Now DATT's a bus!
If some high-powered DATTCO official sees this, feel free to use it -- free of charge -- just give me some acknowledgement in the next annual report somewhere!
The friends of "Frank, Gil, and Friends" are BACK, baby!
Look at this WFCS "Total Listening Hours" on-line listener chart from August 2010...I was on air on the 3rd, out of town on the 10th, on air on the 17th, out of town on the 24th, and back on air on the 31st.
01 September 2010
A question that came to mind while listening to it through on my 40-minute walk this PM...
...is there a more insightful -- and melodic -- depiction and critique of racism, alienation, and corruption in the South than Randy Newman's 1974 Good Old Boys album? 
If there is, I'd LOVE to hear it.
If there is, I'd LOVE to hear it.
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