Month: November 2010

Nov - 27
2010

Desert Island Discs, #1–Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

Every year as an icebreaker exercise I ask students to name which record album they would want with them if they were trapped on a desert island (with an infinite supply of electricity).  Parenthetically, I’ve been doing this so long that I’ve had to change the question from “record album” to “CD” and…

Nov - 05
2010

It’s A Small World After All…

Sometimes I like to play the “What Do They Have In Common” game.  Like, it’s cool to know that the members of Steely Dan and Larry Hagman all went to Bard College.  Or that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4, 1826, 50 years to the day after they signed…