My conference presentation last week went okay. And the weather was gloriously lovely for driving from Vancouver back to Eugene. I could see all the big snowy mountains: St. Helen's, Adams, Hood, Washington, and the Three Sisters. I love that ( Read more... )

Conference is over. Papers were all good. People didn't seem to be asleep through mine, even though I was the last one of the day. I'm hanging out in Nielson until the schmancy dinner at the President's house ( Read more... )

Sunday I cooked a ridiculous amount of food, way too late in the evening. But that's what Sundays are for, and I generally try to cook enough food on Sundays to keep me in leftovers well into the week. That night it was a whole chicken roasted on a bed of root vegetables (sweet potatos, onions, parsnips, and golden beets), with tarragon-mustard- ( Read more... )

Greetings from warm, sunny chilly, cloudy California ( Read more... )

My time in Seattle was excellent all around. I enjoyed the conference, my paper seemed to be well received, and I made some good contacts. I quite enjoyed all of the presentations I saw as well, save one where the mode of delivery irritated the fuck out of me rather negated the quite worthwhile points that were being made. Also, I met Asha ( Read more... )

I'm on my layover at the Dallas/Ft Worth airport. I got in at 5 am, almost an hour ago, though that would be 6 am Indiana time and 3 am Seattle time, and I haven't slept yet, so my body has absolutely no idea what time it is. I wasn't tired (yet), and the plane was packed, so I was one of the few who didn't sleep through the red-eye, and worked ( Read more... )

1. Il Troubadore will be playing here in Bloomington tomorrow (wtf? why did I only just find this out?) Saturday April 4, two performances: 12 noon, in the Wright Education Building on IU's campus, room 1044; and 2:30 at The Pourhouse on Kirkwood.

2. Update on Chuck D: I had to email the organizers of the most poorly advertised conference ( Read more... )

There's a bunch of cool stuff going on this weekend. You should go to it.

Friday night (4/3), there are TWO (count 'em! TWO!) excellent bands playing at different shows, but spaced far enough apart that you can catch them both.

Salaam is pleased to announce that their new CD will be available in early April! This CD, recorded at Airtime ( Read more... )

I think the Beat Freaks are advanced silicon-based beings from another universe, intent on world domination via amazing dance moves. I've never seen a crew on this show so consistently reduce Shane Sparks to babbling fanboy. I wanted to have a YouTube clip of last night's performance to post here, but I couldn't find a good one, alas. So just ( Read more... )

OMG.

It seems that I am, in fact, going to Seattle in April to give a paper about hip hop dance fight movies, here.

Guess I'd better write that paper, then.

OMG.