Saturday Morning Links

Just finished mid-term week here at Casa Letter-Spears, so it seems quite appropriate to begin with the five stages of grading. Indeed, Mr. Fish. Indeed. Bill Morris at The Millions takes on the novelist version of the one-hit wonder. Are…

So we’re into the baseball post-season now, and most of the Rumpus folk live in a city with a team still involved. Last game I attended in San Francisco, Barry Bonds hit his 700th home run, so I guess I’ve…

In south Florida, all conversations eventually turn to traffic and bad drivers. In the past, everyone blamed the elderly. Now we blame mobile phones, but I think the truth is that human beings are just too easily distracted to be…

Today’s blogging comes to you courtesy of the grading I’m escaping from. Scott Horton at Harper’s points to a study of prosecutorial misconduct in the Justice Department put together by USA Today (really?) which will shake whatever faith you had…

Sometimes I wish I had a second computer just to grade my students’ papers with, so I could accidentally drop that computer into the toilet. Do you know who Ines Sainz is? If you’re an NFL fan, you do, even…

I’m starting to believe that there is nothing in this world more likely to destroy one’s schedule than Netflix Streaming. Quick question about Park 51. Almost everyone objecting to it says the owners have the right to build there, and…

First meeting of the term turned into drinking and eating and eating and drinking and a long headachey ride home. That’s what I call a good start. To absolutely no one’s surprise, Mississippi still has some work to do on…

Is it Saturday already? My last week of vacation/first week of work went by a little quickly. How did medieval folks protect their DVDs? I haven’t written anything on the stories coming out of the Virginia Quarterly Review because I…

I have one cat who carries around a catnip-filled mouse in her mouth and quacks. I have another who barks. The other two make regular appearances on my Facebook page. Yeah. I’m one of those people. Jordan Carr of The…

It’s a Saturday morning, the World Cup is on, and I’m done with students for the next 7 weeks. Let’s read. And let’s start with Jacob Lambert at The Millions talking about the Wu-Tang Clan. They are, as you might…

I got my hangover out of the way Friday morning, so I should be chipper. Of course, I have a metric ton of grading to do for the end of my summer class, so maybe not. Surprisingly interesting story on…

Late start this morning. I’d like to take a moment to thank all the Belgian beer that made this late start possible. In the event you’re having trouble finding enough to read online, you can always check out Michelle Orange’s…