That's a lot of money, Jason! In addition to English Dept funds, check out the Goldhaber Travel Grant:
http://www.gradschool.umd.edu/Fellowship/travelgrant/goldhaber/

i know this isn't the right place to post this comment but i'm not sure if you read comments regarding posts that were posted so far in the past.

i want to post to deliver you a RETROACTIVE PUNK AWARD jason.

a while ago you mentioned that you downloaded the new radiohead and looked forward to listening to it. and then, i think, you were silent.

duuuuuuuuuude.

it is an amazing work of art. it is, i would say, the best piece of post-911 art and certainly the most beautiful piece post 9-11, that we have seen to date. amazing, confusing, confused, bitter, pissed, hopeful, brave: it is art.

bye!

Jason--

I am an incoming PhD in Digital Studies student at UMD who lives in Buffalo, about an hour outside of Toronto (usually less). I am actually going home that weekend and, if you need a ride and place to crash, I can accomodate assuming, of course, that neither of us finds the other particularly, um, irritating. Anyways, I sent you an email about the GEO. Use that address to reply if you're interested.

David - you are right. i am, retroactively and proactively, a punk ;) Are you already in the Netherlands? And yes, thanks to the handy bit over to the right, I see all recent comments, even if they are on old posts….

Marc - Thanks for the offer - and welcome to UMD! I’ll get back to you on email shortly, although I warn you - I'm especially irritating ;)

And David - did you *read* the comments after my radiohead post?!? It kept the 8/10 on the rhody-rad-o-meter...

Once I get to a record store, I want to buy the album, to hear the richer tones...

retroactively and proactively and FUTURACTIVELY.

er, ok, i didn't see the 8/10 rating BUT THAT STILL MAKES YOU A PUNK. that disk is a 10 my friend.

dig it: it's the only album i've heard 10-15 times and still have no idea what the songs sound like. it is truly an amnesic album. and that is good. it mirrors the landscape of the USA: all forgetting.

iole and i bail for amsterdam july 15th. two months there and italy.

Lucky bastard. Have fun - where in Italy?

I agree on the album - and oddly, I've never thought amnesia as aesthetic before - always more an anesthetic – but perhaps it is both… Either way, I need to get back to listening - I've honestly been limiting myself to NPR lately and I think I just need to groove ;)

I heard you were in town, by the way, but I won't slap you with a fine, since it sounds like it was a shortshort visit. Punk.

dude,

i was indeed in dc, for about 36 hours for a meeting. sorry we couldn't see each other. is it me, or has dc turned into HELL? it's quite a spectacle to see a city of republicans, but it's quite another to see a city of young republicans and simply unbearable to see a city of young, CONFIDENT, AND GLOATING republicans. i'm not joking. i found it terribly depressing. i know that blogs, esp academic blogs, aren't exactly safe spaces for emotions, but damn, my quickie with the district was sort of miserably depressing.

on a much brighter note, iole and i will spend most of our italy time touring all over the place, her favorite cities and towns, rome of course, and a slice of heaven called Civita di Bagnoregio (pop. 9).