http://www.korncrake.com The Website of Herr Professor Doktor Boethius P. von Korncrake Mon, 25 May 2009 07:04:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, & 11 Within seconds of taking the floor, my partner Sally, a middle-aged medievalist from a third-tier state university in North Dakota, had proven herself to be the second best dancer at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, and ... http://www.korncrake.com/2007/05/24/von-korncrake-in-kalamazoo-part-12/ I shall produce a scholarly work entitled, A Skeleton Key to the Consolation of the Shoes. http://www.korncrake.com/2007/05/16/and-for-my-next-trick/ Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10 Only well fortified by brandy could I confront the Saturday night festivities at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, an unsightly spectacle of several thousand medievalists engaged in a frenzied and arrhythmic St. Vitus, a spastic explosion of ... http://www.korncrake.com/2007/05/16/von-korncrake-in-kalamazoo-part-11/ I shall conclude the story of my adventures in Kalamazoo later this afternoon. In the meantime, please allow me, by way of reply to my acquaintance Msgr. Padraig Ó Fhlannchaidh, S.J., to present to you this video. http://www.korncrake.com/2007/05/10/by-way-of-reply/ Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 I must now confess that I had never been to a medievalist dance. In my younger days, at Patrice Lumumba in Moscow, I had attended more than my share of student dances, events which began with great pronouncements of international ... http://www.korncrake.com/2007/05/08/von-korncrake-in-kalamazoo-part-10/ Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 As I had predicted, my presentation was a rousing success. But then, academics are like swine. As long as the farmer with the slop-bucket seems confident of himself they'll happily eat up any sort of swill and grunt for seconds. ... http://www.korncrake.com/2007/05/07/korncrake-in-kalamazoo-the-dance/ Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 Finally, Saturday afternoon, the date set for the delivery of my paper, arrived. Still feeling the baleful effects of too much karoke and too many Schlitz, I found my way to the conference room, where a small group was already gathered. "Ah, ... http://www.korncrake.com/2007/05/04/von-korncrake-in-kalamazoo-part-8/ Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6 I still don't remember exactly how I made it back from the Tick-Tock to my tiny bunk in my shabby domitory room on the campus of Western Michigan University. The last event I can recall clearly is admirably holding up my end of ... http://www.korncrake.com/2007/04/23/von-korncrake-in-kalamazoo-part-7/ Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 I spent two very satisfying hours trolling the publishers' booths, eavesdropping on conversations and thumbing through tedious books on subjects in which I had no interest. And when those meagre entertainments were exhausted I decided it was time to see what the town ... http://www.korncrake.com/2007/04/22/von-korncrake-in-kalamazoo-part-6/ Parts 1, 2, 3, & 4. Since the presentation of my opus, “Cultural Semiotics, Semi(n)ology and Semiotics: scientia omnis aut est de signis aut de rebus significatis: Text, Textuality and Semiosis”, would not take place until Saturday afternoon, I abandoned the second Friday afternoon session, a tedious discussion of Carolingian numismatics ... http://www.korncrake.com/2007/04/20/von-korncrake-in-kalamazoo-part-5/