Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
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posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 6:45 AM
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I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."
12 Comments:
"Irritation against cough" is ungrammatical.
"Whaddaya want, good grammar or good taste?!"
Jeffery Hodges
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Good one; I did set you up, however :)
Yes, and thanks for that.
Jeffery Hodges
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Funny posts! One of the "Marlboro Men" lives in Brenda's hometown of Hugo, OK. I have met him and he is indeed a rugged, in a good way, looking man even though he is in his late 70's/early 80's now.
Jay
What do they mean by "toasted"?
I wonder how one gets to be a Marlboro man . . .
Jeffery Hodges
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Carter, they mean "it's" toasted.
Jeffery Hodges
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I recently re-watched "Thank You for Smoking," a movie based on Christopher Buckley's satirical novel of the same name; the movie and the novel take both the pro-smoking and anti-smoking lobbies to task. The movie features Sam Elliott as the first-ever Marlboro Man, now dying of lung cancer and thinking about testifying against Big Tobacco. Interesting and funny film which, despite being about smoking, never once shows anyone puffing on a cigarette.
I feel sort of sorry for smokers these days - there's hardly any place they're allowed to smoke. I don't like secondhand smoke indoors (I choke), but outside is different - I find I rather like it. Maybe it reminds me of leaves burning in autumn . . .
Jeffery Hodges
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When I was young I especially liked second hand menthol smoke. Nothing quite like sitting on a stool at the counter in a diner, waiting for my hotdog, gripping my fountain coke with too much ice, listening to "The Tears of a Clown" on one of those mini jukeboxes they had all over the place, while in the both below me someone was smoking a Newport.
Good times.
Lord, I'm a fool for a cigarette . . .
Jeffery Hodges
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