All Tied Up in Knots

I wish to inform you that in the past few weeks, I should have written the following:

• A review of Jonathan Lear’s brilliant Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation.
• My thoughts on Sudhir Venkatesh’s talk at the IHouse. He is the author of Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor.
• The inevitable Borat post.
• The next post in the Polyglot Manifesto series – which is the paper I presented at Madison.
• About Zotero.
• What I have learned – and hope to put into use – from teachers of postcolonialism at Chicago.
• All India Muslim League – a conference we organized recently.
• My Thomas Paine project.
• A snarky post about how tone-deaf the major conferences are – in this case, AAS – to standard internet practices. Even ones dedicated to computing, AAHC, need work.
• A really snarky post about 8 kinds of wrong in Faisal Devji’s ISIM article Global War on Terror as De-Militarization [pdf link].
• A really really snarky post about Sayyid Qutb and the experts of GWOT and Islamism.
• A post about the up-heavels in Pakistan on all fronts. Nuts, really.
• A review of Dirks’ The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain.
• Insane YouTube clips of songs from the Golden Age of Hindi cinema, break-dancing, and mujras from Pakistan. You can see some that I added to my favorites.
• A post about the Annual Cliopatria Awards for best of the history blogosphere. Telling you to go nominate your favorites.

HOWEVER, I confess that I haven’t done any of the above. You don’t need reasons, gentle readers. You and I go back – way back. You are indulgent. I will just mention that my hunt for a professorship, my somewhat increased biodegradability, and my work are to be blamed. I miss CM. The good news is that I can see the end of the insanity. Soon.

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