(view from soc dept: click picture for commentary) Just overheardfirst professor: What about this weather?second prof: It’s King Lear out there! Only at a university would a comment like this go by without question or even much follow up conversation. It’s just something you say or hear people say. Granted, it is a torrent out [...]
Woman in fur, looking out window: Oh my goodness will you look at those dogs! They could eat my dogs for lunch. Friend at next table: [beat] You could eat your dogs for lunch.
Overheard blogs are always a good time. Of course they don’t always make a lot of sense, since it’s out of context, but that’s the fun of it all. But what happens when you only hear a little bit, and are left hanging in suspense? Today I was walking between buildings on campus today and [...]
Prologue. We’ve got a really old CD player. The kind that doesn’t play burned cd’s from Musicmatch jukebox. And since we are planning a long road trip on Tuesday, I’m burning some music. Only I can’t get the disks to play in said old player. I walked out to the car to get the diskman [...]
