I am, as is often the case these days when I fly, recuperating from a (terrible) cold. For once I did get a flu shot, and try to prep for th...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! (Photo courtesy of AP/AFP/Getty)

A few notes and photos from this past weekend. On Friday, two distinguished writers and three graduate students affiliated with the universi...

Okay, at first I was thinking, nothing literary today. The "apparatus with which I think" (Bierce) is tired. So: sports. And speci...

Sometimes I wonder if I'm going to look back on these past few years in Chicago outside of my classes as little more than a mostly endl...

FIRST: I did fix the "Long Nightmare Will Be Over" gif--yes, it should be January 20, 2009 ! Now, some photos from the Rally whic...

It looks like quite a few people are still very interested in what our soon-to-be president and his wife have to say. He's still provok...

"Do not feel shame for how I live." - Essex Hemphill I'll write another post, with photos, from yesterday's extraordinary ...

One can hope, no ?

Way too much work today, so here's one of the videos from last Tuesday's celebration. It's taking place on Michigan Avenue. Enjo...

Update: Gif fixed!

Many thanks to Joshua Marie Wilkinson and his colleagues at Loyola University of Chicago who hosted the talks + reading that I was fortuna...

"I think that magic has to do with the subconscious, much as the ancient sorcerers believed. The identification of man with his materia...

So let's shift gears a bit. There are tons of things I've been meaning to post about, but here are a few. Weeks ago I went to see my...

"I'm rocking with Obama but I'm not a politician...." --Jay-Z, "Jockin Jay-Z" I was so elated and disoriented th...

BARACK OBAMA IS THE 44th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES BARACK OBAMA IS THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMER...

Congratulickations to Cave Caneiste Doug Kearney (photo, The Other Project Blogspot ), who received a Whiting Foundation Award for his sus...