Monday, April 19, 2010

Back in the Saddle Again

Dear Readers,

  I've been away, working on a few different projects, and my bandwidth to your time stream has been taken up with academic correspondence and students' work.

  That period is now over, and I have begun to reevaluate the sorts of things that I put here.  My seminars will remain, as well as at least one narrative/source-style post per week.  However, I am considering adding at least one of two potential new components:

  • Music: Might Have Been.  This would be a column where I examine interesting musicians from your time stream and tell you what their lives could have been like if they had not chosen to become such artists.
  • City Salons: When I was a graduate student, I often had my friends and sometimes even my enemies over for frank discussion on strange issues.  I still have the records of these events, and I may share them with you.
   If any of you, my readers, have thoughts on either of these new ideas, I would be happy to hear them.

  Always,

   Dr. John Skylar
   Chairman
   Department of Anachronism
   University of Constantinople