News!
on Apr 6, 2009 in jlw As some of you have no doubt already seen mentioned by John, I’ll be joining him over at Upturned Earth for most of my blogging.  I’m keeping this site around, and may use it for the occasional post.  I haven’t yet introduced mys...

Apparently, Some People Don’t Read This Blog
on Apr 5, 2009 in politics tradition meaning profit and loss Let me preface this by saying that the only news I’ve heard in the last week involves either the Final Four (Tom Izzo, go kick some Tarheel ass for me, would ya?), North Korea (really guys?), and that apparently Ichiro has a bleeding ulcer (ou...

What In The Wide Wide World Of Sports?
on Apr 1, 2009 in jlw From tomorrow through Sunday, I’ll be in Minneapolis at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, where I’ll be presenting a paper — on the use of the word phaidimos in the Odyssey, so it relates,...

MSM Failures and the UK Coach Search
on Mar 31, 2009 in On on U of K media john calipari So I’ve totally lost my mind and have spent the last 48 hours doing little other than hitting refresh on various websites on my computer — all of them related to Kentucky basketball.  We’ve been on Calipari watch, in case you misse...

“Well, if anyone ever actually teased T.S. Eliot”
on Mar 30, 2009 in literature Eliot Or so wonders Alan Jacobs after pointing out a wonderful little anecdote in the history of English letters: Eliot rejected Animal Farm.  But here’s the best part — someone did!  (Well, sort of.  And I apologize for the Wikipedia citat...

My UK-Notre Dame Meme Is Spreading Like Wildfire!
on Mar 30, 2009 in On on U of K john calipari notre dame taking that meme and running with it all the way Yeah, I’m just going to take credit for it.  Anyway, I’m spending most of my time not preparing a paper for presentation this weekend but reading rumor blogs trying to figure out who my team’s next coach is (today’s favorite...

Wendell Berry Tribute Day In the Louisville Paper
on Mar 29, 2009 in language handwriting Robert Bringhurst Wendell Berry writing Two articles in today’s Courier-Journal about Wendell Berry that might interest people.  First, Actor’s Theatre in Louisville is set to beging performing a play, Wild Blessings, based on his work.  It’s apparently “composed...

Tradition in the Twenty-First Century
on Mar 28, 2009 in conservatism tradition marriage meaning mythology Robert Bringhurst (N.B.: This post is primarily a thought experiment.  For the sake of that experiment, I occassionally take things for granted. – JLW, 4/6/09) Scott Payne’s “Twenty-First Century Conservatism” is well worth a read, even if yo...

Nothing to See (or Say) Here, Really
on Mar 27, 2009 in On on U of K But I’ll talk about it anyway.  By “it” I mean UK basketball, of course.  The whole vibe about the program and Gillispie around here was just eerie for the last week: dead man walking, like.  I’m not going to complain much...

“Skill Is Seductive”
on Mar 26, 2009 in art language morality Robert Bringhurst truth and beauty Walker Percy Despite my differences with him on certain issues (religion, particularly) I think that Robert Bringhurst is one of the most fascinating writers and thinkers out there — his analysis of the meaning of mythology is, if you ask me, second to n...