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Thursday, July 01, 2004

Is it half-past 2004 already?

Yeah, it’s the middle of summer, but I’ve still got a full slate of work-- and other things.  Yesterday these things included taking Jamie to the orthodontist to have his braces fixed and to the optometrist to have the nose pads replaced on his glasses.  It was Minor Prothesis Day, I suppose.  He was anxious about the orthodontist visit-- “how about just touch the braces, and have no tools”-- but got through just fine.  Today these things include reading a dissertation for a dissertation defense tomorrow, and (maybe, if I’m lucky) playing some summer-league hockey tonight.  I have a couple of longer posts in mind for the near future, including one on Novels I Read On My Summer Vacation, but for now, I’ll just mention that I have a new essay in the latest American Quarterly (available online through Project MUSE for those of you in the .edu domain) on American studies and American anti-imperialism. 

Oh, and in other news, apparently William F. Buckley has completed the June 30 handover of the National Review to a triumvirate of “trustees"-- Ghazi al-Yawar, Iyad Allawi and Barham Salih.  We’ll have to wait and see whether this much-anticipated transfer of power is merely a smokescreen, but for now, good luck, fellows!

Posted by Michael on 07/01 at 04:22 AM
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