last week, my time was taken up by another academic conference. I presented on semi-academic podcasts and how awesomely they seem to cultiva...

as promised, this blogpost delves randomly into a few rhetorical facets of the reality television show Hell's Kitchen , mostly it's ...

when I wrote this post about how differently temporary some things are , I wasn't thinking about colonial ruin and the violent displace...

it was shady on the west face of Badger Mountain this morning. the inward corners between each ridge were especially cool. at the crest...

the "twitter thread" as a genre fascinates me. I have so many curious questions about it. when was the first cohesive thread of p...

from time to time I run out of podcasts that I feel eager to listen to, and let the ones I'm not so eager to listen to pile up in the li...

this is the whole world this time of year. blossoms, fat and frilly and clumped like tiny baby ballerinas. the light--when the sky isn...

I looked up the etymology of the word etymology a few days ago. and then I remixed that etymology into the title of my last paper-day paper...

I shared this quote with my students this week, pulling it up  right here where it lives on the little tumblr quote blog I keep. (who even ...

fuel coffeeshop. a few Fridays ago. not pictured:  Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing , with accompany...

last week I was losing sleep over a ridiculous little essay about Plato's take on Socrates' take on a mysterious woman named Diotima...

for spring semester, Classical Rhetoric will take care of my late-morning Tuesday/Thursday brain-stretching. it'll probably be good to g...

this is a bunch of small thoughts I've been collecting for a while. please, forgive the datedness and borrowedness of some of them and t...

my review of Kenneth Goldsmith's Uncreative Writing  was published last week in  The Journal of Electronic Publishing . it's nestled...

so I dug up the full text of this lovely poem by E. E. Cummings, for May day. I did this during a longer-than-it-should've-been distract...

this is the price tag that came with the brand new bicycle wheel I bought the weekend before I moved to Texas. it was tied around the fram...

have I mentioned lululemon? I discovered them in Canada at the bottom of the closet in the basement of 47 Laval Boulevard, Lethbridge, Alber...

the question every English major gets is: "so, are you going to teach?" we of the technical writing persuasion shake our heads sol...

I got a new desk. slotted in among old copies of unloved software at the bottom of the old desk's drawers, I found my old Straylight Run...