To students seldom awake before ten, Like many scholars, I’ve relied on coffee as a lifeline for most of my academic career. By senior year of high school, I was already bringing a plastic mug full of instant Maxwell House (terrible, I know) to class. In college, I even considered footnoting the local convenience store [...]
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The Wonders of Coffee
Posted in advertising, commerce, commercialism, domesticity, economics, food, leisure, shopping, video, visual culture on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cartoons and Commerce, Together at Last!
Posted in books, cartoons, economics, humor, visual culture, tagged books, caricatures, cartoons, cities, commerce, humor, Internet Archive, Library of Congress, mascot on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear siesta sympathizers, Those of you following the Lazy Scholar blog may be asking yourself, “Who is that handsome devil on the homepage?” No, dear readers, it’s not a portrait of yours truly, but rather the official Lazy Scholar mascot—known in his own time and place as Paul Nebeker Bogart. The mixed-media caricature comes from [...]