Friday, April 18, 2008

While Grilling Chicken

Spent the workday putting together trophies, collecting jury ballots, trying and failing to transport a short film over the internet -- essentially being an event-planner -- not a bad gig, but not a gig I'd want every day. As I grilled chicken with Caleb before Addison's first soccer practice, we talked about a theoretical snarl -- should a professor who feels ambivalent about the direction of his institution (who feels, say, for instance, fear that the institution verges on commercializing a tame, saccharine version of Christianity, packaged for a crowd eager to consume pre-packaged "Christian Identity" at their local Christian Bookstores) be willing to be a part of a photo-campaign for the marketing (?) -- would such participation do more to homogenize his own voice or to inflect the homogeneity with nuances of otherness?