One Last Thing – November 8th

EDIT: The talk will be at 6pm NOT 6:30 as previously announced. My error. 
The promotional materials should be going out soon for the talk I’m giving for the UK Student Activities Board’s “One Last Thing” lecture series on November 8th, 6:30pm 6pm at the W.T. Young Library Auditorium. This lecture series asks faculty members to [...]

Working Blue: or, why is the f-bomb so controversial?

I highly enjoyed this article on “F***: Why We Swear.” As some of you know, when I’m not in front of a classroom, I am one of the foremost artists in America working in the medium of profanity. I use the f-bomb in polite conversation the way some of you are addicted to “um” or [...]

Sustainability in/and Appalachia

I’ll be speaking on a panel at tomorrow’s sustainability conference at UK. The panel is titled “Sustainability in/and Appalachia” and I’l be speaking about nonprofit organizations and sustainability in the region. Other panel members include Ernie Yanarella, Herb Reid and Dick Levine. The panel will start at 1pm in Room  359 of the UK Student [...]

Truer Words Were Never Spoken

From Reuters:
Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh had a simple philosophy for producing good work — “you have to eat well, be well housed, have a screw from time to time, smoke your pipe and drink your coffee in peace.”
h/t Marc Andreessen

Alfonso Cuaron’s Shock Doctrine Video

I’m putting this up for future reference. I’m looking at using Naomi Klein’s new book, Shock Doctrine, in PS 545 American Political Thought next semester, and Cuaron (director of Children of Men and Y Tu Mama Tambien) has produced an excellent teaser trailer for the book (but it’s more than that really).
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