Kristin Scott

Kudos to Art Conrad of Bremerton, WA for stirring some much needed controversy. Conrad apparently nailed a large Santa Claus to a cross in his front yard in protest of the commercialism of Christmas. Conrad is quoted by the Associated Press as saying that “Santa has been perverted from who he started out to be [...]

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I came across (albeit 12 years after the fact) a fascinating concept: That there is “no regulon in the semiosphere” . . .
I’m currently reading Paris to the Moon, an excellent novel by Adam Gopnik, an American who moves to Paris with his wife and son in 1995 and chronicles some of his five-year reflections [...]

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Well, it’s apropos that my cultural studies class is ending this evening, two weeks from Christmas, and that I started out the course discussing the Santa Pug as a cultural artifact. I’ve been getting more discontent with holidays, but most particularly Christmas. While the actual holiday itself began as a way of celebrating the birth [...]

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We just got our first big snow storm of the season. Since I’m not teaching today, it works for me (at least until it gets all slushy and dirty). Tribeca is loving it; she bounces around in it like a crazy puppy, grabbing big mouth fulls of it with every bounce. Greylock, on the other [...]

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