So the APA sucks on many, many dimensions. But this is the last straw:
Leonard Cohen is playing on Feb 19 at the Beacon Theater in NYC. I'd be there were it not for the fucking Central APA. Those bastards! They should have had the good sense to not schedule such a conflict. Revolt now.
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Is this the APA's fault or Cohen's? After all, it seems you were aware of the conference dates before the concert, so maybe it was he who unwisely scheduled this clash...
Nah... It's the APA's fault.
Bastards!
My department has a remarkably high per capita number of office doors displaying Cohen lyrics, from the resigned --
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed ...
to the accepting --
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in ...
Perhaps it's time for Office Doors and Philosophy?
No way! I have the following hanging on my office door:
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, you were talking so brave and so sweet.
Giving me head on the unmade bed,
while the limousines wait in the street.
Look out, Spiros. With lyrics like that on your office door, you're not only likely to blow (heh) your cover as a merely cranky jerk of a philosophy professor and be found out to be Spiros of PhilAnon fame, you're also likely to have your students ask "Since when do philosophers stay in hotels with limousines?" Either way, you'll have a lot of explaining to do.
Way!
Someone sent me this piece a while back about academic office doors
http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2006/JF/Feat/petr.htm. It's interesting, especially its conclusion that "[t]he discipline of philosophy appears -- surprisingly enough, for those who happen to know any actual philosophers -- to produce the most well-adjusted members of the professoriate...." Surprising, indeed!
Bill Bryson, in "Mother Tongue", says that the urge to look in the windows of the homes that you pass by is known as crytoscopophilia. By my (sigh) fairly primitive Greek, and by looking at this website, I suspect that the term might in fact be cryptoscopophilia. Either way, there must be some similar term--let those with better Greek invent away!--which describes the pleasure I take in examining academic office-door paraphernalia.
Hi Rabbit,
The word you seek is 'thura' (door).
Anc. greek adjectives regarding something's being decorated are exceptionally specific (so we have krinotos (adorned with lillies), lithoxoanos (adorned with statues), empsephos (adorned with gems), and so on...). A thura schematiaia (door adorned with insignia, figures) seems about right.
I'm not so fascinated by other people's doors--Too busy decorating my own!
Sprios: Question...The Cohen concert is scheduled for a weeknight (Thursday). So, it appears that I have a conflict with teaching classes and going to the concert. Or is this "conflict" not really a conflict at all?
Fuck it dude.
Call out sick.
it's been sold out for a while...
I could get a ticket.
Is there an entry for Leonard Cohen on thingswhitepeoplelike.com yet?
There should be.
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