Category Archives: ESL Links

Flight down went without a hitch.  We were so exhausted after the move and the conference we slept most of the way.  This morning, awoke in the heat and humidity of Guayaquil, a city with a well-deserved reputation as the … Continue reading →

Cutting close to the bone, now, and close on the clock. We have pared our life down to the bare minimum. Got rid of our students. Moved out of the house. Sent the kids off to live their own lives. … Continue reading →

Things are happening too fast now. Yesterday, in a jet-lagged haze, we wrote a brilliant screed on the tenure of John Silber at BU, focusing largely on his abolition of the BU football team after their national championship season, but … Continue reading →

A screenwriter says Sarah Michelle Gellar beat him up because she didn’t like a scene he wrote. James Gunn says Gellar didn’t like a scene in Scooby-Doo 2 in which she had to fall into a giant ball and roll … Continue reading →

Blew back into Boston on the Redeye. The clock said 5:50 but our body said it was 2 am. DST on top of costal zone shift. Took a taxi to Malden, where we stashed the car.  Drove to the office. … Continue reading →

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." President Dwight D. Eisenhower April 16, … Continue reading →

The 1728 composition, called "Wedding Cantata BWV 216," was found among the papers of Japanese pianist Chieko Hara, who died in Japan in 2001 aged 86. The work, written for the wedding of a daughter of a German customs official, … Continue reading →

What do you say to a person who asks, "Why should I have a blog? My friends/students/kids/boss told me I should have a blog so I started one. I created it on the web and got to the point where … Continue reading →

"Everybody is doing everything by their own free choice," he said of the young women who appear on camera. “Something that 15 years ago would have been considered porn, now it’s considered reality video.” We hate to say it, and … Continue reading →

More Americans Believe the Jews Killed Jesus The percentage of Americans who believe Jews were responsible for killing Jesus has grown in recent years, although it remains a view held by a minority of people, according to a poll released … Continue reading →

The Dowbrigade has been lurking around the premises of the Kinko Copy shop on Ocean Blvd., in Long Beach, for far too long. We think the staff is getting suspicious, casting sidelong glances while speaking to each other in low … Continue reading →

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