Free lunch Friday with the faculty and the topic du jour was not AI, it was 1) how to proctor exams, now that we are allowed to proctor exams, and 2) an hour-long presentation on MENTORING, including a dramatic presentation by the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Players. (They are […]
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![Songs in the Key of Life came out September 28, 1976, exactly 50 years ago. I’m holding up the gatefold sleeve, with its warm orange-and-amber sunburst of concentric, ragged-edged rings around a small pen-and-ink portrait at the center. The title curves along the inner ring and Stevie Wonder's name in flowing script below it. A round sticker in the upper left reads "Collector's Album, Includes Two Records, A Something's Extra Bonus Record, 24-Page Lyric Booklet." That's the original double LP plus the bonus 7-inch EP, which was the whole point of the "collector's album" pitch. [I have lost the booklet and EP #alas]
Behind it, the turntable is in the middle of playing one of the discs, with a yellow-and-red Tamla label visible and the tonearm resting on the record. The player looks like a Marantz full-automatic. To the left, a shelf is stuffed with records and 45s, and up top there's a City of Ann Arbor, Michigan medallion among some challenge coins on the ledge.
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![It’s me! In the emeritus office! In a brand new Herman Miller chair!
A close-up selfie of an older man [hmph] sitting in a black mesh-back office chair (Herman Miller style) in the same emeritus office as the previous photo. He's balding [ok ok enough] with white hair [oh ok so I am old already!] on the sides, wears rectangular black-framed glasses, and has a white mustache and soul patch. He's wearing a lavender-and-white striped button-down shirt, open at the collar, with a small beaded necklace visible underneath. His arm is extended toward the camera, taking the photo. Behind him, the office window looks out over a parking lot and a brick building across the street, with a bit of a green plant visible in the upper right corner of the frame. The expression is fairly neutral/deadpan, looking straight into the lens.
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![Another activist poster on the same pole, in a red/white/blue two-color print style:
- Bold hand-lettered headline at top: "FUCK I.C.E — ABOLISH I.C.E," underlined.
- Below it, a cartoon of a stocky figure in an "I.C.E" jacket and cap, drawn mid-flight/falling backward with arms and legs flailing — a comic "getting kicked out" pose.
- The bottom red band has white hand-lettered text: "Protect your neighbors — Donate to migrant defense! GET OUT on the STREETS."
- A QR code sits in the bottom right corner labeled "Donation page for the [Detroit?] Defense..." (partially obscured).
Like the data-center flyer, it's wheat-pasted alongside other stickers and posters on the same utility pole — part of a cluster of political street art/activism postings at that corner.
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