The biscuits were baking, the jam cooling, and the bacon sputtering yesterday morning, for brunch (not Grease, though the bacon rendered plenty) was the word—brunch was the time, was the place, was the motion; brunch was the way we were feeling.
A small group of the leading lights in digital innovation filled the magic cottage with [...]

Let’s rescue egg salad from a scoopable deli fixture.

Simple food, my friends. I dressed butter lettuce with oil, scrambled an egg and fried another, so the yolk breaks onto the leaves and completes the dressing. (I also fried some bacon because it’s Friday.)
Note: Salad is originally from the Latin word for salt, [...]

In October, I sent an email to my advanced modernist survey students asking them to select a few lines from one of the assigned Eavan Boland poems to explicate in class, with the further instructions that they were to choose lines that formed a coherent quotation they might conceivably post on an online profile. Towards [...]

The title of this post refers to a color theory about how retinas process antagonizing information from three cones; in short, differences in the three are perceived first. When green and red are on top of each other, some users may not be able to distinguish between the two colors; plenty of whitespace for heavy [...]

Last spring Peter Kline of the UVA MFA program read two triolets (a poetic form in iambic tetrameter with the rhyme scheme ABaAabAB that was new to me) at our graduate conference. The first two lines are also the last, but their meaning the second time has shifted slightly. The first line is repeated half-way [...]

This semester I am teaching 2 sections of MDST110, the introductory digital methods class for the competitive Media Studies major. My friend Jim Cocola, the Wikipedian publisher of Mirador Press, has convinced me of the efficacy of teaching media studies courses with wikis. So we set up a wiki for the hundred strong MDST110 class [...]

Kristen’s summer 2006 web design intensive accepts Ze Frank’s Earth Sandwich Sports Racer mission

kthread congratulates the new UVA Media Studies majors.

kthread presents a flickring food writing class trip to the Charlottesville City Market