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Archive for October 2011
Friday’s Feature: La Llorona-nator, She’ll Always Be Back
It’s that time of year ghouls and goblins, when the elitistacademic receives phone calls from intrepid reporters around the country asking questions about our favorite ghostly weeping woman, La Llorona. After writing a 500-page manuscript on the legend, you gentle reader may perhaps be shocked to learn that I have a few opinions and insights … Continue reading
Friday’s Feature: Myth #3
Myth #3: Elitist academics long to be Mr. Keating in Dead Poet’s Society I actually had a student write something like this on one of my course evaluations. I am fairly certain it was meant to be an insult, though I am not entirely sure of what I was being accused. So let me see … Continue reading
Musketeers Meet the Matrix
Because what Alexandre Dumas’ story has always needed is a good shot of Resident Evil? Really? And what’s with Baron Munchausen’s flying ship? Maybe it’s the elitistacademic in me, but a quick glance at the movie poster tells me this is one caliente mess. It says, Orlando Bloom’s people insisted on top billing, which is … Continue reading
Radical Listening: Can you hear me in the back?
Ah, Finster. Sometimes people can’t hear no matter what. Mostly, people don’t listen. Myself included. elitistacademics are the worst. We interrupt. We talk over. We don’t listen beyond the first or second sentence of what anyone is saying because we are already listening to ourselves as we begin to formulate our responses, which suggests that … Continue reading
Friday’s Feature: Nudity, Awareness, and Public Libraries
Ode on a Public Library By the elitistacademic Thou font of wondrous delight and cruel neglect Thou foster child of bad light and reading nooks Sylvan educator, who canst thus direct A curious child through the maze of books: What classification dictates thy mute space Of Dewey or LoC, or of both, In closed or … Continue reading
SurlyGurls: Last Man Standing
The SurlyGurls have a thing or two to say about “Last Man Standing,” the new sitcom starring Tim Allen. I don’t do sitcoms, and I never watched one episode of “Home Improvement.” The Gurls are far more diligent than I because this elitist didn’t even bother to tune in. The title alone, suggesting that other … Continue reading
Cooking with the EA: Banana Bread
I am an elitistacademic not a food blogger, but I can read, improvise, and cook, literally and metaphorically. A couple of you, and I love you for reading this silliness, were kind enough to ask about the “Banana Bread” recipe I mentioned the other day, so here it is. It’s not an original, and I … Continue reading
Coriolanus Preview
My goodness, there is a whole lot of Shakespeare going on. Much to be excited about here, though. Ralph Fiennes directing. Gerard Butler as Tullus Aufidius. Well, we will just have to see about that. January 2012.
Friday’s Feature: Dear EA
OMG. I actually received a letter!!!!!!!!! Ahem, I mean as I was sorting through my many queries, I came across the following interesting item. Dear EA, I struggle with my own position as an elitist academic. I can theorize with the best of them (or at least the middle half), and I understand, I think, … Continue reading
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