Monday, February 03, 2003 :::
Dude, You Were Wasted Last Night: or, Overheard On Campus
Stumpage Reports offers its readers many services: long-winded essays on slavery and american history, quotes of the day, and weird little things I think and see throughout the day. Another bonus for the public, is that in my unique position as The Only Guy On Campus Without A Baseball Hat And Cell Phone, I have my finger on the pulsing carotid artery of American college students. With that in mind, here is a list of recent things I've overheard on campus. A quick Monday morning bus ride could beget three pages of "Dude you were so wasted last weekend," so I've eschewed remarks of that nature.
"Legends is the only decent club and thats a gay bar so I stay home and drink."
"I'm walking out of the library and talking to you on my cell phone." (Spoken by someone walking out of the library while talking on their cell phone)
"Its shitty. And my abs hurt."
"I have a movie script I'm developing. Its based on a play by Sartre."
"The elves participated in the war of the ring in a way that was totally inappropriate."
Quote of the Day:
"We don't have any history of that period, because the clay tablets contain only information about what they did every day."
--- a tour guide describing some clay tablets at the Heraklion Museum, Crete, 1976.
Reading:
"Photographs as Historical Evidence: Early Texas Oil" by Walter Rundell, Jr., in The American Archivist, Vol. 41, No. 4, October 1978.
"Public History: Its Origins, Nature, and Prospects" by Robert Kelley, in The Public Historian, Vol. 1, No. 1, Fall 1978.
Slavery in the Structure of American Politics 1765 - 1820 by Donald L. Robinson
::: posted by tom at 10:39 PM
