The Nobel in literature goes to Tomas Transtromer.
UD has exchanged some emails lately with Laura Nelson, an anthropology professor at Cal State East Bay. Both UD and Laura were close friends of David Kosofsky, about whom UD wrote here.
Laura’s husband, Saul Perlmutter, just up and won a Nobel Prize.
UD had to look at excellerate for awhile… Think about it…
Since it isn’t a word, she found no definition for it. The inventive Urban Dictionary has a definition for excelerate –
To succeed at something so quickly you excelerate.
– which gets at the brilliance of the mistake. It’s actually a portmanteau – “a blend of two … words or morphemes into one new word.” To excel; and to accelerate.
Anyway, it’s a word a commenter uses after a Wall Street Journal article updates us on the wretched thing that is law school now. Very few jobs. Applications way down.
Makes UC Irvine and – even more – U Mass look terribly clever. Taxpayers in these states get to subsidize these bright new law schools.
Here’s one in UD‘s neighborhood – a couple of hours ago, police announced that a man with a rifle was seen on the campus of Georgetown University Law Center.
Many of these stories turn out to be false. People saw something, but it turned out not to be a person with a weapon. Some, of course, turn out to be all too true.
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They’ve already called off the search.
On the other hand, here’s a nice urban detail for you:
In the process of their search, the police did find a gun near a tree close to campus, but they determined it was unconnected with the incident.
BISHOP SYMPOSIUM ATTRACKS SCHOLARS, POET’S DEVOTEES
From the Vassar student paper. They’ll probably correct it soon, but go there now and enjoy this wonderful word, which folds into itself both hate and love …
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Rats. They fixed it. A commenter called them on it.
UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS VOW TO STOP
IMPROPRIETIES IN COLLEGE SPORTS
Yes my little brothers and sisters in sports, this our summer retreat has now come to an end.
All please raise your right hand and repeat after me.
On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country to obey the Scout Law to help other people at all times to keep myself physically strong mentally awake and morally straight I vow if I see any improprieties and I mean any I vow to stop them pronto amen.
…in Libya. Here’s Al Jazeera live.
… the Morrissey fanatic. Morrissey gave a London concert tonight, during which a riot broke out in Brixton, which was near the venue.
While escaping the mayhem, my sister’s friend took pictures.
Up to the minute details here.
… and more recent memories of the shooter in Norway, people are finding events at Virginia Tech – a gunman was spotted on campus this morning – particularly unnerving.
Police Search for Ann Arbor Rapist as Annual Art Fair Kicks Off
I dunno.
I just like the headline.
It has contrast (sacred/profane); it has linguistic ambiguity (If English weren’t your first language, wouldn’t you have a bit of a struggle with HEART BACK?).
And then the story itself – a football player at a Catholic college in Connecticut is a pretty significant oxycodone dealer – has some good elements. He’s from Florida, for instance… And down there – Pill Mill Capital of the World – lots of folks sell pain pills… So many that universities might want to take special care with applicants from, say, Broward County (pain pill capital of the pain pill capital)…
Stephen Dedalus, in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, finally confesses all to a priest.
In the wake of the Strauss-Kahn affair, France, like Dedalus, is letting it all trickle out. Georges Tron has quit; and now Luc Ferry, a former education minister, accuses a former high official of child sex abuse.