Interviewer: I really enjoyed your last piece, “Well Endowed By Our Creator: Did George Washington Really Invent Viagra?” It got me thinking about how people use the phrase “our Founding Fathers” as shorthand for “I don’t like the present. Take me back to the past, as long as the past has plumbing, central heating, and cars.” H. Paunch: Are you talking about me? Interviewer: Our readers would like...
Prev|Next Click on the image to advance the story. For best reading experience, re-size your browser window and fiddle with the scroll bar till the image fills the screen and all the various forms of navigation are hidden from view. Book One may be found...
Poet Tracy K. Smith will read from her works, which includes the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winner Life on Mars, a collection of poems about her father, an engineer that worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. Logging in with an email address Any users that log into Sakai with their full email address rather than a Rutgers NetID should use the Guest Login button. With blogs having become largely moneymaking enterprises, it’s sometimes too easy to...
A special guest editorial by text2cloud’s newest staff member: H. Paunch. Which is it: Presidents Day (no apostrophe) Presidents’ Day (“s” apostrophe) or President’s Day (apostrophe “s”)? Some might argue for Presidents Day (option number one) on the grounds that the day is meant to recognize all the presidents. Others–sticklers for the facts we might call them–will argue for...
Chapter 12: where our erstwhile protagonist, Professor Pawn, arrives at Coach Godsend Stadium to deliver his lecture on “Exlification: Finding the Spirit Leader Within” to the assembled masses. There’s a King Lear moment, an Eminem moment, but I don’t think anyone...
Chapter 11, wherein two new characters, the daredevils Skin Clink and Clem Klunk, are introduced and Pawn learns of their role in warming up the crowd prior to his university-wide lecture on Elification, Part Deux. A cameo by the beloved Coach Godsend as well. This is the latest installment in Professor Pawn’s New Clothes, a graphic novel that may be read from the beginning by clicking here. This is the latest...
A visual exploration of how the place of physical education at the university has changed over the past two hundred years. What does taking the bird’s eye view allow us to see? Is anything to be gained by treating a football stadium as the subject of poetry? Let me know what you think. I Nothing moves.Not even the eye of the blackbird. Queen’s College, established in 1766, middle right. II Three squares.I am of three...
Chapter 10: The Pawning of the Age of Aquarius! In Chapter 10, Pawn finds his theme in a dream. * * * * * * This is the latest installment in Professor Pawn’s New Clothes, a graphic novel that may be read from the beginning by...
Chapter 9: Apawncalypse Now! In Chapter 9, Pawn struggles with his choice of nightmares. * This is the latest installment in Professor Pawn’s New Clothes, a graphic novel that may be read from the beginning by clicking...
In Chapter 8, Pawn seems much changed by the experience of having met with Dean Genome. * * * This is the latest installment in Professor Pawn’s New Clothes, a graphic novel that may be read from the beginning by...
