Eleanor is the object of study for a linguistics course in language acquisition at Carleton taught by a friend. Every time this course is offered, pairs of undergraduates descend on local children to observe their language development over the course of a semester. We’ve learned that the students vary in their approach to the task. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'The Counterfactuals'
Rockstar (in a small town)
November 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · The Counterfactuals
The Counterfactuals had a gig last Saturday and I missed it (now that they have graduated from the 5pm slot, it’s a little harder to attend). When he got home that night, Daniel told me some very drunk female students from St. Olaf showed up and gyrated and pelvic thrusted to the fairly un-gyratable and [...]
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P.E.I.
July 31st, 2010 · 3 Comments · Music, The Counterfactuals, Trips
I spent half of this past week on Prince Edward Island, visiting Ian, Jannah and the newest addition to the Toms family, Emma, who is a very sweet, well-disposed baby indeed (what a long way we’ve come since the days when Ian lived in the part of the dorm at McGill affectionately known as “The [...]
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Counterfactuals in the “studio”
July 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments · The Counterfactuals
We committed some of our music to tape, well, hard drive yesterday so we should have some music for interested friends/family soon. The “studio” was the spacious confines of Resurrection Covenant Church — hence all the Jesus pictures behind me. We could have used many many more hours — as the person doing the recording [...]
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The Counterfactuals, Live @ The Elastic Arts Foundation
June 13th, 2009 · No Comments · The Counterfactuals
Warning: This post has nothing to do with Eleanor. Last night*, The Counterfactuals (Dena Wangberg, Lisa Anderson, Micah Lott and me) played at the book launch for Ted Marino’s book of poetry. It was certainly the largest group we’ve played in front of and the first group that didn’t consist solely of friends/family. All in [...]
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