Thursday, July 31, 2008

Atomic Age Architecture in Chapel Hill

On Saturday morning, the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill is hosting a symposium on Chapel Hill's modernist architecture of the 1950s-1970s. Speakers include Dail Dixon of Dixon Weinstein Architects, George Smart of Triangle Modernist Houses, and Cathleen Turner of Preservation North Carolina. Tickets are $15. Call 942-7818 to reserve yours!

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Where are the Neo-Confederates When You Need Them?

This evening I want to read Jefferson Davis' July 1852 address to the Phi Sigma and Hermean Societies of the University of Mississippi. But you know what? I can't find it on the internet. It's moments like these that I conclude the neo-confederates really are insignificant. If you can't scan in all the works of your leader and stick them up on the net somewhere, the question just has to be asked: what are you doing? And the answer has to be not much.