The Department of Evil Studies
9Dr. $hiraz sent me a story in honor of Halloween. In case you were wondering how universities really operated… THE DEPARTMENT OF EVIL STUDIES Epic…
Monthly Archives: October 2011
More Effective Humor: Keep Wall Street Occupied Video
3I have a horrible confession to make: I don’t like protests. Shouting and large crowds are two of my least favorite things and I’m also…
Finish This Joke: Non-Educators Running Education Policy….
23Jokes are my favorite form of communication because they get across complex ideas in seconds flat. There’s a particularly effective joke structure that Freud called “the…
Crimson Newsflash: Facebooking Students Entirely Your Fault!
27F everyone’s I, students Facebooking in class is educators’ own fault. Oh, don’t worry, there’s “science” behind this, if by science you mean an article in the…
Yup, We’re Tired
17On the Facebook page I recently posted the Gizmodo article, “Generation X is Tired of Your Bullshit.” Every Gen-Xer I know fell madly in love…
Call Me Superstitious
2I once spent a summer in Italy on an archaeological dig; in the evenings after we finished work, a group of us would read Plato…
Made of Literary Fail: Forgetting Banned Literature
6Last weekend I was touring an exhibit on banned books, in preparation for an upcoming talk I’m giving on obscenity. One of the banned books…
The Edutainer
14In a move they will surely regret, The Austin Dionysium has invited me to be on their team. I wasted no time wielding my newfound…
Super Important Fact: Mindy Kaling Can Translate Latin!
8She says so, here, on her new website, and we should believe it because the prestigious New York Times reports that Kaling was a “Latin…
Bad Blogger (Austin Blogathon, 2011)
6Note: I gather the idea of a blogathon is to write a bunch of blog entries. 9:15 am Arrive at Blogathon. 9:30 am Realize where…