It's fascinating how much those who are the most serious about literature have essentially made it inaccessible to most people. When I was in grad school, a friend of mine in the poetry MFA program sold a poem to one of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books and got endless derision from her peers in the program for…

One of the interesting things about the current generation of wrestlers is how many of them seem to have learned from the last couple of generations in terms of how much the lifestyle was killing guys so young. It seems for a lot of the younger guys, instead of going out and drinking and doing coke, they hang out and…

I'm sure if she had written a book, she would have mentioned it to someone, possibly as a source for further information about her.

It's been years since I read Native Son, but if I remember correctly, part of the reason the trial is such a slog is knowing full well how it will end and sort of waiting/dreading to get there.

I don't drink soda at all and haven't for years. I put a little sugar in my tea or coffee and I have other desserts now and then, but other than my dark chocolate fix, I'm not a candy eater. I have a Soda Stream, but I just use it to make carbonated water and throw in a little juice sometimes.

I have a weird relationship with sugar. I don't really eat much during the day and then I get a craving for it, so I keep some dark chocolate on hand. My usual lunch is a salad and I have high fiber cereal for breakfast. With dinners, I try to do more grains than starches, so stuff like quinoa instead of noodles. I…

Doh.

Best Wrestling Show - Lucha Underground. Dario Cueto is the ONLY evil authority figure done right.

I noted it elsewhere, but running doesn't do much for my belly but make me thinner in general. I don't exactly have love handles, but they're not going to be featuring me in one of those pictures where my shirt is half lifted and I'm looking down at washboards.

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised!

More of a problem of my own making, but I have had a serious problem putting the mental energy into grading this semester and got myself fairly behind. I partially blame taking two optional summer school classes with very little time off in between semesters. I have about 100+ students this semester and they all…

Makes me glad I work for a college and not a company. We don't give each other gifts except the occasional good assignment or lesson.

I'm behind on AoS. I have them all DVRed, I just haven't been keeping up with it.

My 7 month old puppy likes to eat the other dog's poop. It's pretty terrible and the one or two times he's thrown it back up were nightmares.

That was why I liked City of Heroes so much. PvP was a very small portion of it and they all tended to stick to one server. I played exclusively on the RP server.

WWE 2k16 - I'm doing some of the Showcase mode and I've unlocked the Hart Foundation.

Good stuff! Getting back into running, my general goals were some weight loss (no real target in mind) and just being more active and fit again. Happily, both have paid off. Weight wise, I've leveled off at about 168 lbs, down from 183 back in May (I'm 6'1"). Fitness and endurance wise, I'm also doing really well. I'm…

Who's the amazon in the yellow dress? Why does she, the largest chef, not simply eat the other three?

Hear hear!

In Edward Said's Orientalism, he includes Egypt as part of the Orient in terms of the west's exoticizing of it.