Author Archives: Kyle

We found this little gem and thought we’d share. If you’re into weird ephemera (and we know a lot of you are), you’ll really enjoy some of these. Proust playing guitar on a tennis racquet? Check. Mark Twain being very, … Continue reading →

Gotta love the folks over at Oxford. Check out Inside Higher Ed’s brief news update on this scandalous sartorial matter. Officials at the University of Oxford’s Brasenose College have become alarmed over students wearing pajamas to breakfast in the dining … Continue reading →

Perhaps you should. It’s a humorous take on, as the creator writes, “the life and times of a humanities major at a school known for sciency stuff.” If you need a moment for a few laughs, I suggest you check … Continue reading →

When I think about the president, I don’t typically think about the president as poet. Metrical mastery doesn’t exactly sell, I imagine, when it comes to bids for the presidency. Then again, poets have always been a problematic group in … Continue reading →

  From the moment I arrived at Stanford – read, “from the moment the assimilationist practices deployed by Housing, Advising, and Undergraduate Education, etc. conspired to excise any objective sense of this new and foreign place called ‘Stanford’” – I … Continue reading →

A quick reminder: the English Department’s 2012 t-shirt contest ends this weekend. Remember that prizes go to the first several submitters just for submitting… …and yes, there is still booty to be won. Guidelines: 1) VISUAL: Give us something interesting … Continue reading →