For the past few weeks, my life was mostly on hold. No, I wasn’t working nonstop on the campaign, although I made a few calls and knocked on a few doors. No, I wasn’t ill or incapacitated. I was waiting for Tuesday, for the decision that became clear at about 9 pm PST.
Posts Tagged ‘election’
Regarding Hope
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged election, generation, hope, obama, politics, rhetoric on November 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Power[less], Point[less]: an exercise in wide-ranging frustration
Posted in rant, tagged audience, communication, election, obama, politics, powerpoint, presenting on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This weekend, at the urging of many Obama campaign emails, I attended a Get Out The Vote training. As I walked into the nondescript, poorly-lit building in Seattle, I followed hand-painted signs to a large room where they had set up maybe 75 chairs. I was early, so I stopped into the bathroom (one light [...]
The Engfish Lesson: for Ms. Palin
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged election, engfish, palin, politics, teaching on October 5, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Each semester, while I was teaching, I found I had to spend some time within the first few classes on the problem of Engfish. The first assignments always came back in a sort of half-language carefully constructed to reveal nothing, commit to nothing, and generally avoid saying anything dangerous or objectionable.
Reading Maureen Dowd’s piece in [...]
Limberlost Quagmires
Posted in reviews, tagged America, contradiction, election, freckles, gene stratton porter, identity, limberlost, politics on October 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the vague projects that followed me out of my Master’s degree involves re-reading some of the century-old children’s books I loved when I used to walk to my grandmother’s house after middle school and read (and read and read) them. The past few days saw me working through two of Gene Stratton Porter’s [...]
