Author Archives: Fenster

About Fenster

Gainfully employed for thirty years, including as one of those high paid college administrators faculty complain about. Earned Ph.D. late in life and converted to the faculty side. Those damn administrators are ruining everything.

NOT The Beatles

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: A Walrus appropriation. With a little Penny Lane thrown in.

Posted in Music, Performers | Tagged Beatles, Sowing the Seeds of Love, Tears for Fears | 4 Comments

A Photo 4 the Day

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Arriving at our place in upstate NY in a snowstorm, 2 AM, the day before Thanksgiving, 2013.

Posted in Photography | 2 Comments

Linkage

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: More on the seductions of narrative in public life, complete with a nice, perhaps too nicey-nice, suggestion for how to deal with the problem. James Carroll on a perfect example of the above: given the failure of deliberation in … Continue reading →

Posted in Linkathons | Tagged Buddhism, Diversity statements, James Carroll, Peter Ellerton, public deliberation | 9 Comments

NOT The Beatles

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: A passable McCartney. The Nines–“Better”.

Posted in Music, Performers | Tagged Beatles, Better, The Nines | 1 Comment

Politics and Higher Education (Fishes and Bicycles)

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: The American Way of Higher Education is a lot more about letting a hundred flowers bloom than the heavy hand of central government. Certainly we are a lot more freewheeling than China, where the government and the party … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Uncategorized | Tagged gap year, higher education, Obama, Tufts | 4 Comments

A Photo 4 the Day

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: 新娘是不高興，因為有在沙灘上沒有空間。, or “The Bride is Unhappy Because There is No Space on the Beach”.

Posted in Photography | 5 Comments

The Fog

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Yesterday a morning fog rolled into New York City. The HuffPost published some nice photos from the air showing a clear and bright sky with the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges poking through clouds. Down at ground level it … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography | Tagged fog, New York City | Leave a comment

NOT The Beatles

Posted on January 12, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: From Smyle, an obscure Dutch group looking for the knock-off sound, around 1971. The Lennon-styled singer went on to do the Beatles parts for the briefly famous Stars on 45 around 10 years later.

Posted in Music, Performers | Tagged Beatles, Smyle, Stars on 45 | 1 Comment

Sic Transit, Baby

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: I wrote here, here and here about people who were quite famous in their day, now more or less down the memory hole. With that in mind, I note the passing of playwright/poet/provocateur Amiri Baraka (née Leroi Jones), and … Continue reading →