Literary Love – Page 5 – Snark on the Side

My Pal Potter

Not gonna lie, I’m a little excited about this. Just a little. TOMORROW!!!!

I love words. So just for a moment, I want to exercise my geekiness rights and point out something fascinating. Reading an article for my NZ research today, I stumbled across a new word I didn’t know: pleonasm. It refers to an excess of words used to express a sentiment, sometimes as a rhetorical device,Continue reading “Words, words, words”

"If" – graduate student edition

If – for Grad Students* If you can keep your mind when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust your laptop with the I.T., But make allowance for a virus too; If you can live sans sleep and keep your eyes from drooping, Or, after three espresso,Continue reading “"If" – graduate student edition”

He Thought It Was Worth It

Hope!! From entrepreneur to college lecturer: Ditching a $500,000 salary to teach lit. (CNN Money) Now I just have to figure out the $500,000 salary part.

Professional Development

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. ~Gene Fowler I’m beginning to think the experience of writing this particular paper should go down on my resume under the category “Professional Development.” If this hasn’t given me sympathy for theContinue reading “Professional Development”

I Wonder…

Sometimes I wonder what would happen if Jacques Derrida ever met William Strunk and E.B. White? I don’t know, but I imagine it would involve a lot of commas. Angry commas, with French words in italics and long, tangential commentaries on etymology. And parentheses. Livid parentheses, with honest, energetic, colorful words inside. (And perhaps aContinue reading “I Wonder…”

Red Leather

I’m starting to have a piece-de-resistance kind of idea in honor of the upcoming Flying Fork Day. It’s Romeo and Juliet. A new film version. Based on the Yankees/Red Socks rivalry. It’s called Red Leather. It’s directed by David Lynch. And it goes something like this… ———————————————————VOICEOVER (HARRY DEAN STANTON): Two clubs, alike in history…Continue reading “Red Leather”

WANTED

Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go When I found this I thought: Gee, thanks for telling me now. But there’s no use crying over spilt…dollars…or hours…or brain cells…or stuff. Right? So instead, what we need are some super-fantabulous Alternate Careers for Unemployed, Over-Qualified Graduate School…Graduates. What a great idea. I thereby submit forContinue reading “WANTED”

The Twelve Days of Finals

In celebration of finishing the first semester of grad school, and in proper holiday spirits, I am proud to bring to you, for the first time in the history of this blog (wow, that sounded very pompous, didn’t it?)…The Twelve Days of Finals (to be sung appropriately). Enjoy! The Twelve Days of Finals OR TheContinue reading “The Twelve Days of Finals”

Ode to Room 201

After having spent no less than 8 hours a day on campus since Saturday and NO LESS than twelve hours a day on campus since Monday, this is the response of a brain in desperation. With no further ado, please forgive my Ode to Room 201, where I have spent most of those hours. —-Continue reading “Ode to Room 201”