Category Archives: Williams
The time has come…
…for you to lip-synch…FOR YOUR LIFE. It breaks my heart that I will be missing this on Friday: You all remember that last time GQ sang at a drag show, right?
Filed under A Cappella, Williams
WCMA Blog!
The Williams College Museum of Art has launched a blog! Go see posts on the Landscapes of the Mind show, including talks by Williams professors and some behind-the-scenes exhibition planning pictures. I really want to go visit right now!
Couch-catted
With the passage through the Capitol area of the biggest winter storm in almost a century, the fabric of our day-to-day lives has shifted in some marked ways, only a few of which actually have to do with the snow. Direct fallout … Continue reading
Filed under Art History, Friends, linguistics, The church of "I Hate You", Williams
It Must Have Been the Lack of Hand Sanitizer
An excellent historical find by one of my favorite Ephs, Jessica Mahoney, ’10 (current manager of GQ!), concerning the name that was inscribed on the fireplace in her room in Perry: Gov. Pennoyer’s Only Son Dead - A Bright Young Student … Continue reading
Filed under Friends, New York Times, Research, Williams, williams college
Zombie Metaphysics
In addition to collecting all the standard press releases about new research by Williams profs, the Faculty Notes page also provides a (partial?) list of Eph faculty blogs. I’ve followed Mike Glier’s along a long line for a while, but … Continue reading
March of the Nobles
So you remember that air-guitar cover band I saw rocking out across from Tunnel City a year and a half ago? They were back today, except with real instruments making some kind of transcendent noise outside of St. Pierre’s Barber … Continue reading
Paging Dr. Spooner
Two weeks after my Hawaiian adventure, I was finally ready to indulge in some sushi again. Erin visiting up for the weekend was another good excuse, to be sure, as was the fact that I’d just finished marching in the … Continue reading
Filed under Art, Civic Pride, Summer, The Future, Williams
Clearly Going
In the long-running debate between the mountains and the shore, I think that Hawai’i, the biggest island of the archipelago, may provide the best resolution. We’re staying in Waikoloa, about thirty minutes north of Kona, at a condo overlooking a … Continue reading
