Thursday, March 27, 2008

Profs in high places

Brian Fagan was recently on the Daily Show!

Fagan is awesome. I had him as an anthropology professor at UCSB, and he was entertaining as hell. He went off on how "Louis Leakey was the biggest bastard I ever met" and how Leakey's wife (or was it another anthropologist? Margaret Mead? I don't remember now) "smoked a big phallus of a cigar." You didn't dare fall asleep in his class or he'd get up in your face and berate you.

For the final exam, he had us over to his beautiful house in Montecito (I think) and served us warm English beer. Memories!

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