Today's schedule
* 9am: meeting
* 9:30-3:30: teach four classes consecutively
* 3:30-5:20: jam-packed office hours
* 5:30: arrive for book talk
* 6:00: talk book
So why WOULDN'T my dumb ass dump an ENTIRE tumbler of coffee right down my front when I'm hours from home?
And then, because someone in the Northwoods (I assume Nanabozhoo) has a sense of humor, I got to spend an hour and change doing amateur beaver-proofing of a half-dozen poplars amid a 30-degree April wind chill.
Spotted in the Northwoods bookstore 👀 hello, Spooner!
it's Corythosaurus and it's not particularly close
(i may be too close to this situation)
April 14 means a lot to me:
* PUB DATE of When Democrats Won the Heartland,
* FIRST BIRTHDAY for our second kid, and
* EIGHT YEARS married to my wonderful wife, who has tolerated me and this book along the way. (Yes, our wedding was the 2018 blizzard.)
To many more years (though maybe not books).
When Democrats Won the Heartland Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992 Author: Cory Haala
Happy Pub Date to WHEN DEMOCRATS WON THE HEARTLAND: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992 by @coryhaala.bsky.social!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
#EauClaire! Join us Thursday, April 23, at Dotters Books for a conversation about When Democrats Won the Heartland with #UWEC professor Ryan Weichelt. Books will be on sale and are available online thru Dotters!
Maybe fishbowls at the Pio, too? I'm still 21, right?
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When Democrats Won the Heartland comes out next Tuesday!
S26UIP for 30% off direct from my publisher, @illinoispress.bsky.social: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
Hey, last night was a big one in #Wisconsin politics. Let's talk about that progressive tradition!
Central WI friends: join me to talk about When Democrats Won the Heartland!
6pm, April 21, Great Northern Distilling, thanks to Bound to Happen Books! Free event: www.facebook.com/events/93956...
Go for the populism, stay for the Bill Carmody chat if you get a shot of Malort into him.
Come hear me talk IN PAUL WELLSTONE'S BACKYARD!
...well, not exactly. Content Bookstore in Northfield is 0.6 miles away.
But that's where I'll be on Monday, May 11, from 6:00-7:30pm! Please share with your South Metro/Northfield friends, and RSVP below:
www.contentbookstore.com/events/49452...
Minneapolis/West Metro friends: please join me at Magers and Quinn on Monday, May 4 at 7pm for a conversation about "When Democrats Won the Heartland" with Michael Lansing of Augsburg!
Free, pre-registration required:
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64 is the ice shanty removal boundary line, so that's what i tend to gravitate toward, erring toward 8. (Plus, teaching in Point and dabbling in Wausau, no way would I count it or anything out my north window on 29 "up north".)
The CC that I taught at in the MinnState system was impressively awful in how brazen they were about relying on DE students. Each survey I taught had 50 in it; about 45 were PSEO, and 40 of those were from the local high school.
But "that's just the way it [was]" so on we marched.
This is leading to the gutting of yet another Minnesota State system school, St. Cloud State. It's been a PSEO/dual hub for a couple decades (I adjuncted '19-22), and the dept has gone from 10 to 4 (retirees + 1 retrench)...now the rumor is 2 retrenchments and death of the major coming shortly. Bad.
I'll share again: August 2017, I was in Grand Forks doing research when I went to Mass for Assumption.
Priest spent the homily distinguishing infallibility **ex cathedra** and point-blank telling everyone they could ignore Francis on climate and immigration. Easy to understand how Vance gets there.
sure, I'd grab a crowler from Lupine and a broasted chicken dinner from V's Bar and launch myself into space to see it
Happiness is learning you're gonna get to go to a Winnipeg Blue Bombers home game this summer.
Whoa: 6 years ago today I defended my dissertation. First Zoom defense for Marquette history dept -- one committeemember via phone, another video off the whole time.
Look at that face: Shaved. Young. No bags under my eyes.
Then came COVID, job market, kids, and the book. Alas.
Reading back over my marketing questionnaire from three months ago and I want to go back and hug this naive young man, then pat him on the head for thinking this.
See, I allowed my love of Bill Carmody, the Princeton Offense, and the 1-3-1 to seduce me. (But I have no regrets.)
MKE friends: please join me @boswellbooks.bsky.social on Wednesday, May 6 at 6:30 for a talk on (and signed copies of) When Democrats Won the Heartland!
Pre-registration req'd, but (1) it's free, and (2) I'll consider buying you a set-up at Y-Not II as a thanks.
www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-haala...
One great thing about Cory Haala's book, (also mentioned by others,) is his tremendous use of our Family Farm Movement paper archives. So he uses lots of pre-internet information, not accessible online or for AI. He's a model for anyone doing farm issue/farm bill writing.
You're way, way too kind, Brad. Thank you.
Thanks for the kind words, Brad!
I finally got my copy of “When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the age of Reagan, 1978-1992,” by @coryhaala.bsky.social. Great coverage for #Iowa, #Minnesota, #SouthDakota, #Wisconsin, #Illinois. No other recent Iowa author book comes close to the references here. Candidates!
to think the zombie fair state (now owned by some texas company) would take the fair state co-op logo, flip it on its side, and try to sell beer with it. TO THINK. man, does this piss me off.
It's 8:58pm on a Friday night and I've just received an email from a student titled simply "Alf Landon is a fraud."