Pages

▼
Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Boo!

›
Thomas Hardy's short story The Withered Arm is just one of the Victorian ghost stories you might take a few minutes to enjoy today. Th...
Monday, October 30, 2006

Mixed message in Mississippi

›
In Philadelphia, Mississippi, a little over a year after the conviction of Edgar Ray Killen for manslaughter in the cases of the murders of...

Sounds like teen spirit

›
The Daily Tar Heel has the story on the Smith Middle School Radio Club.

Panhandling and community values

›
What to do about panhandlers? A couple of weeks ago I attended a meeting of what started out as the Downtown Chapel Hill Partnership Kiosk G...
Thursday, October 26, 2006

Gone underground

›
A week without a blog post may be a record for GreeneSpace. My apologies for a violation of Martin Kuhn's sensible blog-ethical rule to...
Thursday, October 19, 2006

Beyond our control

›
Tucker and I were part of the packed house at the Barn at Fearrington tonight waiting for Elizabeth Edwards to speak about her book, Saving...
Wednesday, October 18, 2006

So it goes.

›
An abandoned farmhouse caving in under the pressure of kudzu is only a taste, but a pretty good first taste, of planet Earth without people ...
Monday, October 16, 2006

From age to age

›
As birthday season approaches, there's nothing funny about this photoshop experiment . (Via kottke.org .)
Sunday, October 15, 2006

Near and far

›
Our neighbor Scott Madry makes the front page of the Raleigh N&O today for his sophisticated archaeological uses of Google Earth. We...

Deconstructing Dennis

›
Tucker was not amused by a cartoon in today's paper. "It takes antiintellectualism and wraps it up in color, packaging it up for ki...
Thursday, October 12, 2006

Revisionist history at UNC

›
Today is University Day at UNC--a birthday celebration. The afternoon event was the official launching of a new " virtual museum "...
Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Hakluyt and Woolf: a rare combination

›
I always get a kick out of the Bauman Rare Books ad on the back of the NYT book review, but this week it's more in the nature of the pl...
Thursday, October 05, 2006

Thoughts of war, and more

›
Just in time, I hope, for the Robert Frost edition , the mail brings an offer of a free issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review . As everybod...
Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Eyes and ears on the prize

›
" Eyes on the Prize ," the first two episodes of which aired on PBS last night, seems more and more remarkable as time goes on--if...
Sunday, October 01, 2006

Par for the parking deck

›
In the Ballston area of Arlington, Virginia, it's been a long time since you could play miniature golf. That may change soon. THE AR...
Saturday, September 30, 2006

The ideal city: "Everything's waiting for you."

›
In an essay called "The Ideal Community and the Politics of Difference," the late Iris Marion Young makes claims for the city as ...
Friday, September 29, 2006

"Prize" within reach again

›
A year and a half ago I joined the chorus of complaint about the unavailability of the landmark documentary series " Eyes on the Prize...

Fact vs. fiction

›
As a coda to the post below , there are always those on fact patrol to try to make sure that the dramatic artist does not range all that ...
Thursday, September 28, 2006

Beyond the back door

›
My talk on The Voice at the Back Door and the Carrollton Massacre yesterday went nicely. I was lucky to have a good crowd of folks who wer...

Do the math.

›
For an 8th grade math project, Tucker translated the costs of the Iraq war into more familiar terms. He started with a cost of $ 318.5 bi...