A short list of everyone else’s work is all I can handle these days, with teaching and all, so look for more of these mini-roundups. I will be going down my roll sequentially, so if I haven’t noted your updates yet, and you’re in the bottom half of the blogroll at the bottom of this page, that is why.

ARTS AND LEISURE

Lauren W. Smith has taken a trip to Portland and reports on their municipal gardens. What concerns me most: they have a Chinese garden and we do not. This could be corrected, City of Fort Worth … Eleiva at Chronotopia has opened up the discussion of the most-effective topic for a university literature survey course – are the new, modern cross-cultural and non-canonical courses as good as traditional, one-author or region/time courses, such as “U.S. Literature after the Civil War,” my own introduction to the adult study of English? She notes that the nefarious Stanley Fish weighed in in an essay for the New York Times a couple weeks back …

NEWS

In case you missed it, Eve-Marie has this story with links at the Extra Credit blog: Arlington schools refused to show the president’s address to school children, instead bussing them to an event to see former president Bush …

FOOD

Francis visited Sukhothai in Arlington and enjoyed the food and the BYOB aspect, among other things …  and Fort Worth Hole in the Wall visited Chef Love at the Love Shack hamburger stand. This is the third blogged review I’ve noted for the Love Shack this summer (actually, fourth because Francis went there too) so this place must really be good. Guess I should check it out.