{"id":858,"date":"2006-12-14T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/?p=858"},"modified":"2022-06-01T19:01:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T00:01:56","slug":"seasons-beatings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/2006\/12\/14\/seasons-beatings\/","title":{"rendered":"Season’s Beatings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Season’s Beatings” seems like an appropriate sentiment, although with the (much) warmer than usual weather (currently 47F — coincidence, Pomona People? I think NOT!) and pleasant literary diversions at hand, I cannot or should not complain too much. Season’s Beatings — I am avoiding holiday shopping, that whole gift thing, etc. I am still figuring out the list of recipients.

How warm is it? On the 3rd of December I stopped by Michelangelo’s, tried to get an iced coffee, and was told it was a seasonal drink — they had none. Yesterday I stopped by Fair Trade and they, too (same owners), had no iced coffee. But today, yes TODAY dear readers, iced coffee was available.

I walked through the door at about 6:18pm and the guy behind the bar said, “Sorry, we only have cinnamon fritters. I think we have an apple danish.” I took the fritter, though, nuked, and he immediately inquired, “Iced Coffee?” I said no, expecting there to be none available, that in fact he, barista extraordinaire, master of caffeine, was mistaken about his own stash and stock, but I was quickly won over, and his heroine chic, blue sweater wearing coworker soon provided a tall glass of the dark seductive brew.

I’m not a blogger. It sounds like what one says before attending an AA meeting (yes, Lindsay Lohan has been sober A WHOLE WEEK! and *supposedly* attending meetings for months … you do the so-called math). The first step is in admitting the problem, but I do not have a problem to admit, for when I say, I am not a blogger, I mean this in a snooty, snobbish way — I’ve been posting journalesque prose and verse on the internet since before the dot-com-bust, before Bush Jr., before the word “blog.” As an old-timer, I position myself here as slumming it, joining the polloi<\/em> (hoi polloi already means “the people” so the hoi polloi reminds me of the La Brea Tar Pits … the the tar tar pits).

That having been said, I reserve personal reflections for a more private site, and on my own public site I post those things of a more permanent nature … ephemeral pop-culture phenomena (YouTube, I tube, we all tube for YouTube!) have no place in my posting persona, so here I am.

I was pleased to see that the NY Times has a new Berlin-centric article available, this time 36 Hours in Berlin<\/a> … and my Stammtisch<\/em>, my local cafe-bar-restaurant around the corner from my apartment, was listed. For a moment I think touched upon that feeling of being a proud parent. My baby made good!<\/em>

More people need to read Questionable Content<\/a> (the linked strip is of the most questionable, thus, if one can stomach it, then the rest are no problem), and I think that philosophy geeks everywhere need to read the current Dresden Codak<\/a>.

The other day I met with D and F at Qdoba (Tuesday Dissertator Burritos!) and among other things I pushed upon them the joys of No Pinch<\/a> and Tony vs Paul<\/a>.

And so it is, it’s Thursday evening, I found myself in the department despite myself today so as to administer a final exam, and now I really dread grading. It is the only part of the teaching profession that I do not enjoy.

House of Leaves<\/em> (Danielewski, 2000), here I come! Special Topics in Calamity Physics<\/em> (Pessl, 2006) was finished last night (thank you, Andrew), and now I need to review it, along with The Historian<\/em> (Kostova, 2005) for a few other folks. Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to work I go …<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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