Amanda Walling

It was a fantastic hectoring!!!

Why Did UChicago Destroy the Humanities? The answer is simple: to spend untold sums on useless buildings by starchitects.

wrote briefly about architecture and the situation at u Chicago www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Bayeux tapestry meme: Behold the field in which I grow my fvcks

Bayeux Tapestry memes seem thematically appropriate?

Never tell us academics are responding to the brief with excessive nuance!

View from Villa Aurora in Los Angeles, overlooking the Pacific, March 2005.

Twenty years ago in another life, I was an Angeleno for a while, visiting Villa Aurora in the green hills of the Palisades.

Manuscript image of a man using a rope to pull a poem stanza into place from the margin.

If you want to "rope them in" there's always the Hoccleve stanza-hauling image! (photo from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social's fabulous Exemplaria article)

I get them periodically, mostly from students in programs where they need to maintain a minimum GPA, and sometimes from students with a capacious understanding of what 'rounding up' might include. But I get apologies sometimes too!