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in which sheep are encased in rogue glaciers
Wandering through your local big-box bookstore, there is much to find mildly repulsive. The inconsiderate jerkface who leaves his half-empty frappe mocha venti concoction on top of a stack of...
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kiddie pools
Like any child of the 80s, I spent some time with Lamar on Reading Rainbow. (Butterfly in the skyyyyyyy! I can fly twice as hiiiiiiiigh!). I got down in Fraggle Rock — a show that, through the...
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:: cue the Jeopardy music ::
I am, apparently, on a minor blog hiatus. High Stakes Things are happening and demand my full attention. I will return as soon as possible, but in the meantime, check out this mini-documentary of one...
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my house was made of straw
Hello again, dear carrots readers! I apologize for my absence. I blame the perils of academia. It’s been a stressful month, but now I’m back and ready to pro-blog-stinate. Or procrasti-blog? I’ll have...
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partings welded together
I’ve been gone for two months, an unprecedented blogging hiatus. Things are changing here at carrots headquarters. That means that we’ve been running by the seats of our pants. The cats are restless....
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to new england… and beyoooooooond!
If a gang of menacing public radio producers held me hostage, threatening me with novelty tote bags and an endless fundraising drive unless I write a This I Believe essay — because let me tell you, I...
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carrots blinds you with SCIENCE!
My current office is a cubicle in the chemistry building. At least I think it’s the chemistry building. There are many different genres of science at Rice — although I suspect scientists don’t call...
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in which a trip to the apple orchard takes a sinister turn
My current route to campus passes a local elementary school, and last week as I drove by mid-morning I noticed a line of school buses idling on the curb next to a line of third graders idling on the...
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carrots blogs elsewhere
Hello, dear carrots readers. Just a note that I have blogged elsewhere today! Check out my post on Edward Lear’s birthday at the wonderful Journal of Victorian Culture Online.
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closing time
As my few loyal carrots readers have probably noticed, I haven’t been updating as of late. While this is due, in part, to the general chaos of my life right now — moving boxes everywhere! — I have, in...
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