NEW BLOGGING LIFE!!!!!
I'm back and I'm blogging again! If you are still checking this place, hold onto your hat, 'cause here we go!!!!
I've realized that my brain is stagnating under the weight of seventeenth century political history and I have to find an outlet for the pressure between my ears. Last night I came home from the LOC, went out on the deck with my lovely wife and played scrabble for a couple hours instead of reading like I was supposed to. Now I will be up all night finishing my work, but my brain feels like it has new life. I've realized that all work and no play makes for brain mush. So, I'm making a new committment to a healthy amount of nintendo, blogging, relaxing, and wasting time. CHEERS TO THAT ONE!!!!
But for now, here's the deal--I have to have a dissertation committee in place by August and in order to have a committee, I have to have an idea of what I'm going to write about. So, if anyone's still reading, here's a call for your top ten lists of historical things that I should or should not write about.
I know I have no room to talk, but it's about time.
:)
oh, by the way, the picture is just a funny image of us torturing our dog.
Sir Walter Raleigh. He doesn't get enough press. Something about him would be fabulous.
Top 5 Shoulds:
1. If Fidel Castro had been a Dodger, the US would have one the World Baseball Classic.
2. How Robert Todd Lincoln was responsible for the assassination of 3 US Presidents.
3. Pete Rose: Communist?
4. Area 51: The New Studio 54?
5. Elvis: The Fat Years.
Top 5 Should NOTs:
1. Mustaches and Dictators: From Hitler to Hussein
2. Wrestlemania: America's Super Bowl?
3. JJ Redick: Communist?
4. In Support of the Great Leap Forward: Backyard Steel Mills Could Have Worked.
5. Brian Sellers: Genius. Mystic. Cultural Icon.
1. Great Scotts: Fitzgerald to Joplin
2. Great Lowland Scots: Sam Boyd's Ancestors
3. Not-So-Great Scotts: Stapp
4. Great Scott!: The Expression
5. Why the word "Scott" sounds odd and not great if you say it in front of a mirror 40 times in a row
6. S.C.O.T.T.: The Acronym - Southern Culture On The Television ("Mama's Family" Revisted)
7. Scottish Hip Hop: Drop It Like It's Scot
8. The Tonight Show Kilt Debacle: Johnny On The Scot
9. The SCOT Waffle House Scandal: Smothered, Covered, Or Tainted?
10. Commercialization of Scottish Culture: A Carton Of Tartan
None of these have anything to do with your thesis, so maybe they're on the NOT DO list.
I think something about Cesar Chaves would be interesting. You know something about Hispanics had to come from me! Please nothing about JFK's assassination. That horse has been beated way too much.
Oops...Cesar Chavez with a z.