Best of Quiche Moraine
gregladen | May 12, 2010... in inverse relation to how much they got read. In other words, for some reason, you missed these and you shouldn't have. Now is your chance to catch up. There's only two.
The first one is serious and meaning drenched:
Our Conversations Are Like a Cold Fruit Salad on a Dusty, Hot, Summer Day ... It is about the value of not being a complete asshole all the time just because you seem to be getting away with it.
The second one is as far from serious as I get, and the closest you'll ever see me approach scatological humor: When Your Field School Goes Into the Toilet. Technically,…
gregladen | May 11, 2010When I was a kid, everyone in my neighborhood was divided into categories along three dimensions. There were color differences (light vs. dark hair and skin), there was the Catholic vs. Protestant divide, and there was the binary distinction of whether or not your dad served in World War II. In fourth grade and again in seventh, I attended a new school and each time encountered a greater diversity of kids and teachers and learned about new kinds of people. At the same time, I would often visit my father at work, and during the summer he and I would have breakfast downtown at the Dewitt…
gregladen | May 10, 2010You know I'm reviewing my QM blogging. Time for some rants.
The Black Forest Inn: Anarchists 2; Scientists 1
In the email, she had asked for my time. She wanted to talk to me about a strategy for finishing her degree in anthropology, and she wanted to know whether there was some research that she could do with me. At the end of the email, she said, "Can we please meet at the Hard Times? I'd be more comfortable."...
In and of itself, that post is not so much a rant as a piece of a larger ongoing rant. It's kind of hard to explain. Just go look. Here. Click here.
Maybe We Should Have…
gregladen | May 9, 2010In the continuing series recycling highlighting selected posts from the Quiche Moraine Blog, may I recommend a bite to eat ....
I've written a handful of social commentaries thinly disguised as restaurant reviews. Here's two of them:
Strong Ideas and Exclusionary Thinking: Obama, Palin and Greek Food in Minneapolis
Christos Greek Restaurant is one of three well-known Greek restaurants in Minneapolis. The other two are It's Greek to Me and Gardens of Salonica. Which one you like may be a matter of cultural survival.
Read the rest ...
Dinner at Azia
So, another dinner with Lizzie.
We needed…
gregladen | May 8, 2010Sort of.
The Quiche Moraine Blog has been a success in a number of ways. We have a community, though it is small. We have a voice, though it is subtle. And, we have simply done a good deal of pretty good writing on it. And now, as we approach our 2,000th comment, I thought it would be appropriate to drag out highlight a handful of my own contributions to that blog that I particularly enjoyed writing, or for some reason or another, look back on fondly. I thought about reposting them on QM, but we've never done that before and I'm not sure we should. So instead, I've decided to pick…