Me: “A band that can do a bombastic cover of a Depeche Mode tune, and then go on to do something with acoustic guitar and whiny male vocalist? SIGN ME UP.”
Archives for May 2013
I was going to write this here, but…
May 21, 2013 by
I thought it would suit my professional blog pretty well too. Â So “People Want to Help” is over there if you care to read it.
Overheard at work
May 1, 2013 by
Me: “There’s a publication out there called Peasant Studies Newsletter.”
Colleague: “Really?”
Me: “I suppose Peasant Studies Newsletter is appropriate.”
C: “As opposed to?”
Me: “Something grandiloquent like Peasant Studies Journal, or maybe The Annals of Peasant Studies.”
C: “I was thinking Peasant Studies Trade Weekly would be good.”
Other Colleague: “The title fills me with Weltschmerz. With a moment’s effort, they could have entitled it: Serf, Peasant & Villein, or the Periodical Peon, or (my favorite) De Rustici.”