and wine and fish hatcheries
my geography professor says a lot of great things, very few of them having to do with geography.i am taking notes. they are these.
Because it wouldn’t post to twitter. Then he started talking about caviar.
thursday september 1
- “new lamborghini, new house in the hamptons, new, more aerodynamic spouse”
- “champagne was flowing” said three times in thirty seconds, really
- prig
- talked about las vegas for the whole class and mobs and bugsy siegel
tuesday august 30
- re: a typo he made on the syllabus “everyone needs an editor. hemmingway had the best editor of his day.” and then he moved on
- basketball metaphor on “college brands”?
- oberlin college (for a half hour)
- “behoove”
- when asked how oberlin got to be so prestigious, discussed canals and the connecticut western reserve and firelands and surveying
- mining
thursday august 25
- “nobody can top our bullshit” on american media
- glaciers & ridges (cleveland street and sandy ridge used to be “beach front property” [which phrase was repeated like 6 times])
- family crests were “team uniforms” that “prevent granddad from being zapped” (in medieval brawls and such)
so’s you know what he sounds like. to enhance the experience.
tuesday august 23
- “let me tell you a story—my girlfriend, who is now dead, and i…”
- my book
- my screenplay
- bill clinton
- rome
- like ten minutes of roman emperor jokes that i’m pretty sure nobody understood
- infant mortality rates (at least fifteen minutes)
- aircraft carriers
- least favorite place in the northern hemisphere to start a war? afghanistan
- “accounting is a form of witchcraft”
- “earning ten dollars an hour at burger death”
- roll call + questions regarding name etymologies (ten minutes)
- great lakes accent
- the first twenty-four hour period of continuous electricity was on a tuesday because that’s when all the housewives did the ironing
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