@daxshepard, please get anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes (UC Berkley) on the show if you can. Anthro ethics, med anth, and a paper about human organ trafficking that reads like a crime novel. You and MM would love her.
@daxshepard Re: birthdays around holidays. My daughter was born Dec 26th so to maintain my sanity we would celebrate her HALF birthday on a convenient weekend in the summer. She got a card, a gift & a cupcake but a full day just for her at the 6-month-ish mark.
@torontomike@MrChuckD@MrChuckD gave a talk @BuffState in '07 (I think) & made a compelling argument for participating in LOCAL politics b/c our voices can be heard, rather than stressing national politics. My memories of what he said are muddled, but that civics lesson shapes every class I teach now!
@daxshepard I listened to episode with @StephenMerchant today. You should read Watching the English by @KateFoxWatching - a pop culture ethnography about the English. Hilarious. Covers pub etiquette, weather-speak and more. Enjoy!
@Gladwell My NW ON hometown was "the coldest" earlier this week.I was strangely thrilled knowing I was born into this.I now do research in Belize- convinced that the muskeg soil of the Greenstone region led me to the swampy "backwater" of former Britiah Honduras. https://t.co/MKpS0isv5S
Secretly hoping I'll bump into @Gladwell while running errands in KW so I can casually/eloquently articulate my love of his focus on good research. Malcolm, HMU if u want to talk anthropology, British colonial land policy in British Honduras or gentrification of Belize's beaches.
@Gladwell Spent 10 years working in record stores big & small. Used to love when Cargo records order came in on Mondays aka "Death Metal Mondays." We offered up death metal to every customer. "Would you like some Deicide to go with that fine Stan Rogers selection?" Really great show!
@Gladwell Magic happens, that's what! Brilliant episode. I'm not much of a country fan (although the Gambler was on heavy rotation on my Mickey Mouse record player in 1981) but I love hearing songwriters talk about their craft. And your awe was infectious. Thx.
@amahnke It's the end of the semester and in a dramatic effort to procrastinate regarding my almost-finished dissertation, I'll suggest that you need to delegate some of your work. I'll volunteer myself as a researcher/editor. Perhaps I'll even put forward a Lore theme: self-sacrifice?
@alli_vonhorn @amahnke I used to work in a big record shop in London. We would go home to watch ER for perspective. "So, if there's a hole in the Celine Dion CDs on the chart wall or the Smash Hits magazine rack is a bit thin, its not the end of the world?" Catharsis. Hah. And Bake Off is a great balm.