Dear obsessive Netflix queue updaters, I went to San Francisco last week to do some research at a couple of non-digital archives—you know, the kind with actual, physical papers and books—but spent much of my time wondering what my life would be like on the west coast. Would I indulge in olive oil ice cream [...]
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California Dreaming
Posted in food, leisure, periodicals, poetry, tagged California, cooking, magazines, sunset magazine, vintage magazines on August 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Nintendo Days
Posted in leisure, music, technology, tagged atari, gaming, legend of zelda, metroid, nintendo, super mario bros, video games, vintage on July 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear catnappers, My first semester in college, in an effort to stymie all academic progress, one of my suitemates unveiled an aging Nintendo console along with a cache of video game cartridges. Mind you, this was 1999, at which point the original Nintendo—a not-very-sexy gray box—was decidedly outdated. It was hardly unusual, for instance, 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 [...]
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 [...]
Getting to Home Plate With Sheet Music and Tobacco Cards
Posted in Baltimore, baseball, leisure, music, sports, tagged Baltimore Orioles, baseball on April 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Dear seventh-inning stretchers, With President Obama’s high and wide pitch, baseball season is officially upon us. So I turned to Matthew Mugmon to dig into the archive for signs of the pastime’s past. Matthew is a graduate student in music at Harvard, whose dissertation looks at the relationship between American modernism and the music of Austrian [...]
Thrills of the Open Road
Posted in advertising, cars, commerce, leisure, tagged car catalogs on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To the spring-attired, I never imagined myself an auto enthusiast. In fact, for years, I had nightmares about losing control of my car on the parkway, and wasn’t sure if I should interpret them as a Final Destination-ish prophecy of my own demise or a mere anxiety dream. Yet after driving 3000 miles through Southwestern [...]
The Wonders of Coffee
Posted in advertising, commerce, commercialism, domesticity, economics, food, leisure, shopping, video, visual culture on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Chickens and State Fairs
Posted in commerce, food, leisure, photography, tagged georgia, state fair on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear lethargic readers, It’s one of the regrets of my life thus far that I’ve never been to a county or state fair—to my knowledge, there weren’t many (or any) on Long Island where I grew up. Thanks to the Digital Library of Georgia, however, I can at least enjoy the “idea” of the state [...]
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