AmuseBouche

Amuse Bouche

Amuse-bouche is a regular feature designed to add a little amusement to your day and celebrate the arrival of the (early) weekend. Suggestions welcome!

From McSweeney’s comes Lisa Nikolidakis to the rescue, just in time for tomorrow’s Humanities Department meeting. Wish I’d had one for DWFDW back on August 10th.

Faculty Meeting Bingo

Also on McSweeney’s is this bit of awesomeness–a Socratic Dialogue featuring Socrates and Taylor Swift.

Amuse bouche

Anybody glad the holidays are over?

Mine were great, nothing like the link, but my best/worst story from this year is about when my cousin stood up and gave a speech about how important it is to “spice things up” before presenting the husbands of her three sisters with not-PG rated “outfits” from Victoria’s Secret picked out for her sisters by her newish husband. As you can imagine, reactions in the room varied.

You? Anybody have a good story?

Amuse-bouche

Amuse-bouche is a (new!) regular feature designed to add a little amusement to your day and celebrate the arrival of the (early) weekend. Suggestions welcome!

Six weeks in is a good time to ask your students, especially the freshmen, if they are still thinking about their BIG goals–the goals they had back in August. Ask them if they’re still approaching every day, every class, every assignment with the enthusiasm that they had back in August, if they are still focused on their ambitions and possibilities–lest they mistake the short-term for the long-term, the urgent for the important, the easy pleasures for the hard-earned one. And if you don’t want to ask them that, you can always ask them what kind of theme music they would pick for themselves…

Amuse-bouche

Amuse-bouche is a (new!) regular feature designed to add a little amusement to your day and celebrate the arrival of the (early) weekend. Suggestions welcome!

I had heard of Vine before I saw this, but didn’t know what it was (it’s like a micro-YouTube; videos with a 6 second limit that loop). Lucky for me, somebody made a highlight reel, and it is truly amazing for a hundred different reasons. I found it here, and, as the author predicts, it was the best 11 minutes and 38 seconds of my day.

And don’t let the freeze-frame fool you–that’s just designed to drive page views…prepare to be dazzled by the creativity of the millenial generation.