To the chronically tired, While I may be lazy in my scholarship, let it never be said I’m a stranger to physical labor. On Monday, I started volunteering one morning a week at a local farm here in Northampton. As promised, the work was not glamorous—weeding, weeding, and more weeding—but it was surprisingly satisfying. As [...]
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Back to the Land, Now and Then
Posted in commerce, environment, food, periodicals, technology, tagged Beekman Boys, environmentalist, farming, green movement, Whole Earth Catalog, Whole Foods on June 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
An Archival Pride Parade
Posted in film, LGBT, periodicals, politics, video, tagged gay, gay history, LGBT pride, pride parade on June 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear air conditioner enthusiasts, You may have heard that June is LGBT Pride Month in these United States, marked by rainbow-banner parades in cities across the country. Boston’s passed a few Saturdays ago (favorite sign: “gender is a drag,” courtesy of a Traniwreck marcher), but I’ll confess, the parade that still means the most to [...]
Q & A: Davarian Baldwin, Race and Urban Studies Scholar
Posted in african-americans, Chicago, Lazy Scholar Interview, leisure on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear sun bathers, Today the Lazy Scholar talks to a decidedly un-lazy historian, Davarian L. Baldwin, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Trinity College. Baldwin’s first book, Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, The Great Migration, and Black Urban Life, published by UNC Press in 2007, offers an inspired look at the labors and [...]
Sports Fashion Victims
Posted in fashion, sports on June 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear athletics aficionados, The Lazy Scholar happily welcomes back Matthew Mugmon, a graduate student in music at Harvard. Last heard ruminating on some surprisingly suggestive baseball tunes, Mugmon returns today to tackle another side of sports fandom. Somewhat recent research suggests that when we root for sports teams, we’re actually rooting for ourselves. It only [...]
Victorian Pleasure Reading
Posted in books, circus, disability studies, leisure, pulp fiction on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear poolside readers, Believe it or not, before this lazy scholar came to know the pleasures of American Studies, he was a full-fledged Anglicist (or is it Britishist?). Wordsworth, Eliot, Woolf, Forster—I would surely have carried a card if there were one. Don’t worry, I’m not crossing the pond just yet, though I am feeling [...]
Cal Coolidge’s Go Kart and Other Wonders of Western MA
Posted in food, photography on June 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
To anyone who’s ever read an academic monograph on the beach, The fiancé and I have relocated to Northampton, Massachusetts for the summer. For the moment, I’m still trying to find my bearings, which mostly means charting the routes between our apartment and every café in a two-mile radius. My friend Katie has also lent [...]
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