I’ve been off and away thanks to the absolute insanity that is UofC’s annual Scav Hunt, often billed as the largest scavenger hunt in the world. This year saw me building a Playmobile vomitorium, going on a treasure-hunt type journey through sw Chicago/Evergreen Park, and roasting a lamb stuffed with a chicken stuffed with a [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Back from Scav
Posted in Business time!, Miscellany, tagged scav on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A gold mine…
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Procedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913, is now online and fully searchable. A quick inquiry yielded over 400 cases in which Litchfields and all sorts of potential ancestors were involved in such crimes as highway robbery. Litchfield-street in Soho (also given as Seven Dials) also seemed to be a site of much skullduggery.
I am [...]
Thoughtlessly consuming
Posted in Essays, tagged feminism, racism on May 2, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Part of our goal in creating a new workshop on rape culture was to force ourselves and our audiences through an unpleasant process of reassessing what we think we know in light of all of that privilege we would like to pretend that we do not have. More specifically, sexual violence is intimately linked to [...]
