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And oh what a week it was. Has the album of the day been 'disappeared'? These rumors are baseless. What's happened is I'...

1. The Death Of The Clayton Peacock - John Fahey. Eerie tune played with a slide. 2. Diamonds And Rust - Paper Cats/Joan Baez. This is f...

Among the mysteries surrounding the so-called Tea Party movement is what exactly these self-styled zealots stand for. Usually, zealots are ...

1. A Common Disaster - Cowboy Junkies. Cowboy Junkies are one of those bands I feel I should like better than I do. They take more patienc...

1. Chain of Fools - Aretha Franklin. I've had outstanding luck with opening songs this week. I shall risk offense and say that I belie...

I'm skipping a chunk of Bs. They played on Monday, and I neglected to post about them. Sue me. 1. Brown-eyed Girl - Van Morrison. Th...

So there I was, preparing for tomorrow's Contemporary Moral Issues class, re-reading the class assignment, an essay by Margaret Urban Wa...

Today on my way to and from campus, I entered the Bs. "At the Zoo" - Simon and Garfunkel. You knew about the hamsters, didn...

(Caveat emptor: There is no Money Mark on my iPod.) I struck on this idea Friday: playing everything on my iPod, in alphabetical order by...

[Image not yet available.] Like lots of kids, I spent time with a tape recorder making up fake media programming. Unlike lots of kids, I k...

As always, sorry about the autostart if it bugs you. It is the only workable Soundclick widget. Now playing: Paper Cats

Blood on the Tracks is, I believe, the 3rd Dylan album I ever bought. When I was in high school, among my peers, anything approaching res...

4. Ethical responsibility in the context of contingency and bureaucratization In his contribution to the AACU report, Gaff discusses th...

I believe I found Grogshow on one of my routine ventures to find new music by following link after link on the All Music Guide site. I sta...

3. Am I an academic professional? All of this is, for me, largely a matter of academic interest (pardon the pun), because I am not a prof...

Simply stated, Astral Weeks is among the very best albums of popular music in the rock idiom ever recorded. And what's most amazing a...

2.2 The crisis of professionalism A foremost proponent of the social contract view of professionalism, William Sullivan, is well-known fo...

2. Social contract professionalism in crisis 2.1 The social contract model of professionalism The basic conception of professionalism a...

I'm posting this in multiple parts. This is the current draft of a paper on the precarious nature of college faculty work (70+% of us wo...

I think any good dinner party should be followed be recovery time. I may never eat again. Below is the menu, in French, of course, because I...