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Q: What happens when you set your internal alarm to 6pm (central time) thinking that this is when the Awards are aired and find yourself sta...

A wonderfully loyal reader and friend from Poland today admitted that sometimes my text runs completely into terrain that muddles and befudd...

I am recording the following conversation between a reader (r) and myself (n): r: I have known you all these years and I never knew you o...

The NYT Magazine has an article today that tracks the debate about whether universities should abandon the “legacy advantage” in their admis...

I want to mention two blog posts that were as interesting as anything I might cite to in the press: The first is Tonya’s ( here ), where sh...

Good title because: it has been a slow blogger day, and I haven’t had enough food to keep me happy (an evening event that was never touted a...

In her blog ( here ), Ann linked to a songbook, dated 1944, that is a compilation of lyrics for songs of the Women’s Army Corps. I had seen...

I’ve noticed in myself a reluctance to blog in a political vein lately. There are many reasons for it (among other things, what I think abou...

Again I am asked if my “readers” are mere figments of an overindulged imagination and again I am going on record as stating that they are no...

Teaching at UW may offer compensation far beyond that which appears in your bank account on a monthly basis. It is also true that the dollar...

A reader wrote that my post on the Oscars inspired her to have an Oscar party this year. One has to let go of one’s individual sensitivities...

As my afternoon went to coaching a group of law students in their moot court competition prep, I missed the chance to grab something for lun...

If you're one of those who has requested email updates of NYT film reviews, you will have gotten the following capsules of what this wee...

How old is my truck? It is so old that I need a key to open the door (though I never lock it--what for?), but I don’t need a key to start t...

The reason we love the Oscars (just bare with me, I realize not everyone loves the Oscars) is that in the end, they are unpredictable. Imagi...

The first time I was seriously considered for marriage was when I was 6 years old. My equally young Polish friend Janek announced, after a m...

If the NYTimes told you (through an editorial endorsement ) to vote for Kerry but you had been leaning toward Edwards, would you switch? No,...

For those who read the posts on trunks (yesterday), here is a reprint of the elusive New Yorker article, dated February 13, 1978. I had clip...

As a post scriptum to the post on trunks (below) let me say that I did proceed to dump the contents of my steamer on the basement floor. At ...

A reader chastised me for not linking to the CNN story on green polar bears in the Singapore zoo (sorry – the story ran for 4 hours then was...