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• I love LA

  I have this suspicion that I’m the last person in the world to read City of Quartz–isn’t it like taught in every LA high school? Nevertheless, my adviser suggested I get hip to Mike Davis as my dissertation proposal gets more and more located within questions about urbanity. So, in preparation for a trip to […]

• Posted on Jul 13.08 to Snobbery, The Real   

• 中文太难学了

  I’m taking a day to catch up on some of my more neglected Google reader feeds, and that includes catching up on Language Log. Today I saw a post by Victor Mair that in strong language advocates for discarding character learning as a component of beginning Mandarin study.
  Amen. Though my ponderous doodles of Chinese characters […]

• Posted on May 27.08 to Snobbery   

• How to write a simple English / Humanities paper in LaTeX

  Congratulations! You’re sick of Microsoft Word! This post is a very quick and dirty introduction to writing a regular, run of the mill English/Humanities college essay or term paper using LaTeX. I’ll show you how to get the software, write the paper, format it, put together the bibliography / works cited, and generate the pdf […]

• Posted on May 05.08 to Computing, Music, Snobbery   

• Never use Google Books to build a bibliography

  A digital workspace for my dissertation now exists. In this post, I want to discuss a few tips for building a bibliographic database, quickly. Manan had recommended to me Zotero, which is basically Endnote, if Endnote didn’t suck, knew what the hell the internet was, and was free.
  For the time being, Zotero’s main flaw […]

• Posted on Apr 11.08 to Snobbery   

• Talking Heads on economics and space

  True Stories, the Talking Heads movie from 1986, may be brilliant. It also may be awful. It’s probably, actually, just both at once. I’ve always been stunned by this one scene, however, especially in its ability to predict the future of the New Economy (something not that surprising, considering the movie centers around a Texan […]

• Posted on Apr 09.08 to Snobbery   

• More Conclusions in Male Fantasy Sports

  The quarter is over, and that means that Male Fantasy Sports is also over. Since I wrote up the baseball section, I should write up the soccer section.
  The first book we read was Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby. The book annoyed me to no end, largely because Hornby comes across as an insufferable poser, bragging […]

• Posted on Mar 12.08 to Baseball and Sports, Snobbery, The Real   

• Conclusions so far in “Male Fantasy Sports”

  We just finished the baseball unit in the course I’m teaching, “Male Fantasy Sports.” The course is a crosslisted English and Gender Studies with 14 students (syllabus | departmental description | photo of books at the bookstore). Most students major in the social sciences, but there are a pair of English majors, and three or […]

• Posted on Feb 08.08 to Baseball and Sports, Snobbery   

• Jumping on The Wire

  [Updated]
  Personally, and I think I’m not so different from most people who say things like “The Wire is the best show in television history,” I came to it rather late—only starting the first season on dvd as the fourth season wrapped up on HBO. Needless to say, I was completely caught up (having watched the […]

• Posted on Jan 26.08 to Snobbery   

• Snap Movie Apostrophes: Edward Scissorhands

  It’s been a long 15 years since I last saw you, but I have to say, they haven’t been kind. I really liked you when I was a confused, overly sensitive, proto-emo kid in ninth grade. Now I’m jaded and see way too much of True Stories in you. You were the perfect distraction […]

• Posted on Dec 08.05 to Snobbery   

• We Are Family

  Under normal circumstances, this would be a “Snap Movie Apostrophe,” but there’s something about the process I underwent in order to see Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that I feel would get lost in the overly stylised snap apostrophe form.
  I’d never read the source material before getting an IM inviting me to a […]

• Posted on Nov 22.05 to Snobbery   

• Snap Movie Apostrophes: Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie

  You have taught me why it is that the rich mess around with blow. If my life was one extended series of deferral, I’d turn to blasting lines, too.

• Posted on Nov 06.05 to Snobbery   

• Snap Movie Apostrophes: L’auberge espagnole

  You were not, despite my lame attempt at a pun, about a Spanish eggplant. Instead, you were precisely the sort of movie I would have gotten all bajigitty over a decade ago but now must sneer at, because your rampant implicit hatred for the EU is kind of distasteful.
  With its flags identifying the nation of […]

• Posted on Nov 04.05 to Snobbery   

• Let Me Get This Straight…

  Ryan and Marissa haven’t yet fucked?
  I might need to readjust those Kirsten Numbers.

• Posted on Sep 16.05 to Snobbery   

• Snap Movie Apostrophes: The Palm Beach Story

  You were a laugh riot—one I have not felt in a long, long time. I think Andreas told me he was going on a Preston Sturges kick, and I figured I’d secretly follow along. I’d seen Sullivan’s Travels, but I think that’s it until I saw you. And, yes, you were absolutely hilarious. There’s […]

• Posted on Sep 12.05 to Snobbery   

• Snap Movie Apostrophes: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Retry

  You were good to see again, when I could actually hear the dialogue, being the only hipster in the room (my living room). The screening was brought on by a recent re-viewing of Royal T’s, and I’d been burning to see Rushmore again for a while (a weird burning, considering I own it), maybe […]

• Posted on Aug 07.05 to Snobbery