Bill Caraher

It occurred to me that two of these photos look much better in color.

One I lightly cropped.

A sunny and cool midmorning walk.

I love the Sigma Quattro. It only really works when it is very bright outside, but when it is bright, you can't see the screen to frame a shot (and there is no viewfinder).

It reminds me of the adage that if you have to frame the shot, you've already lost.

It's a heck of a day to be writing about oil and photography. My timeline is filled with AI generated scenes of refineries ablaze as confused evidence for the sticky ubiquity of oil as a hyperobject.

The scenes generated by AI are actually more authentic expressions of oil than actual photographs.

Playing a bit with a shaft of sunlight.

Despite my pledge to spend more time on social media, post more, "engage" more, and so on, when I get busy I fall into old habits.

Anyway.

Here's a little still life: Behind the Microwave.

You know that Bud Light still exists, right? And Anheuser-Busch still exists.

Why would they put the SOTU opposite the Sixers-Pacers game? It seems like they don’t want people to watch.

This is brilliant. When is the SOTU? I need to calendar my "slips, trips, and falls" training video.

A black and white photo of some kind of pump valve in the snow.

A black and white photo of a fence covered in snow.

A black and white photo of two pump valve things atop a flood wall covered in snow. The photo has a a Tatooine kind of vibe to it because the snow looks a bit like a sand dune.

A black and white photo of a fence, some pine trees, and a snow covered roof.

A black and white photo of a tree covered in snow reaching for the sky. There are two obvious dark spots that are from dust on the camera censor.

A black and white photo of a tree in a park, but the photo focuses on the shadow of the tree against a fresh layer of snow.

A black and white photo of a tree in a small town front yard. The tree is covered with snow and framed by a nearly buried white picket fence.

A black and white photo of a tree stretching out to the sky and to the left of the image.

My tree friends were showing out this morning because I showed up with my fancy Sony camera.

A small assemblage of kitchen things including a saltcellar and some spoon rests.

A small assemblage of snacks in a black and white photo.

A snowy outdoor scene in black and white outside a window.

A black and white photo of a piechest with some bottles on top and some photos of food on the wall.

Stuff and snow.

Bill's chapter narrates how he turned a budget crisis into a teaching opportunity--he taught a course on the university budget, and equipped his students with the understanding and agency to advocate for *their* university--all as they produced an actual book! Teaching as activism, at its finest

I'm honored that my work will appear in this volume!

Image of a book cover that reads Bearing the Burden of Booms: Energy, Extraction, Communities, and the Landscape of the Plains by Sebastian Felix Braun. The book cover shows an oil rig and appears to be splattered with oil. Vitoria Faccin-Herman designed the book cover. The book will appear in the first week of March from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota: https://thedigitalpress.org/

Coming soon.

All the college and university "leaders" who chose to surrender in advance on this, take a bow

And then get in the fuckin sea

I teach historical methods and writing. I am not very good at teaching this stuff partly because I struggle to remember what if feels like to write (or really anything about doing it).

Is this common? Can other people remember how it feels or what the experience of writing is like?

I know there are far more important things in the world right now, but I’ll be annoyed if we don’t have a snow day tomorrow.

We do occasionally get caught speculatin' about a hypothesis, though. Sometimes we have to assume that the ship didn't just vanish when it crossed the horizon. Sometimes.

It's pure NASCAR that a car sponsored by whiskey company caused a big wreck. Oh well.

So far, cautions are ahead.

I have a yuge stack of grading and the Daytona 500 on. I wonder whether this will be more of a "grading during long green-flag runs" or a "grade during cautions" kind of race.

India v Pakistan… good morning World Cup!

Midmorning walk:

Moody.

Welp. Cleetus McFarland lasted 6 laps at Daytona.

To be clear the little pot is modern!

More stuff.

The Alabama kid claims the first wicket!!!!