Encyclopedia of Arkansas

Talk me into/out of applying for a job in Little Rock.

it's in little rock!

It's a job!

you sold me!

when i think of arkansas i think of this http://csac.buffalo.edu/mirrors/mirrorsimages.html

I'm guessing culture shock will be pretty severe. I am from Sheffield, have lived in Sydney and London, and have lived and worked around the University of Oxford for the best part of ten years.

Should be an adventure, right?!

job is at ualr, btw

only times i was there was for training at CEOSH or flying in because it was cheaper to take southwest from midway then driving to memphis.

Is this a postdoc?

hey, not far from Little Rock is De Valls Bluff, with some really fantastic bbq at Craig's, and great pies from the pie shop across the street. And west of Little Rock is gorgeous...and I'd happily live in Hot Springs, in particular at McClard's bbq (good grief the rib and fry plate was great, not to mention that sauce!).

yes, so it's probably 2-3 years max

Check in any time you like...

thanks! little rock seems like it should be a big enough place for me to find fun stuff to do, but i don't really know the U.S. outside the California coast and NYC, which I'm guessing aren't really representative. this is my main concern.

probably getting ahead of myself here.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081128/ap_on_re_us/arkansas_earthquakes

"This area has got a lot of faults..." BUT WE STILL LOVE IT AMIRITE?

so I'm driving through Little Rock in a couple of weeks and it's about where I'd like to stop for the night (with the fam). Does anyone know any good meals to be there? I've been to Doe's Eat Place there before, and it was ok, but I'd be cool with some bbq or a good meat-and-three place, if there is some.

Also, would it be better to stay someplace outside of Little Rock, or should I just find someplace in the city itself? We'll just stay one night (on our way east), so this is really just a way-point.

also I have been singing Reba's "Little Rock" the whole time I have been writing the last note. I love that song! and I bet it gets old if you live there.

That song about the alcoholic living in Little Rock wears much thinner. After all, Reba's song is about a tiny ring her man gave her.

I hate to sound boring, but you can hit the River Market for plenty of food and sightseeing. It's a stone's throw from the Clinton Library and it's easy to navigate.

The best restaurants are nowhere near there, but I don't know how much snooping around you want to do with your family in tow.

There is nothing really between Little Rock and Memphis, so if Little Rock's going to be a checkpoint, make it in the city or at the very least, North Little Rock.

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thanks! I sent a webmail through ILX just now.

Whole Hog BBQ in LR is some of the best I've had.

otm

Fire chief shot by cop in Ark. court over tickets

JERICHO, Ark. — It was just too much, having to return to court twice on the same day to contest yet another traffic ticket, and Fire Chief Don Payne didn't hesitate to tell the judge what he thought of the police and their speed traps.

The response from cops? They shot him. Right there in court.

Payne ended up in the hospital, but his shooting last week brought to a boil simmering tensions between residents of this tiny former cotton city and their police force. Drivers quickly learn to slow to a crawl along the gravel roads and the two-lane highway that run through Jericho, but they say sometimes that isn't enough to fend off the city ticketing machine.

"You can't even get them to answer a call because normally they're writing tickets," said Thomas Martin, chief investigator for the Crittenden County Sheriff's Department. "They're not providing a service to the citizens."

Now the police chief has disbanded his force "until things calm down," a judge has voided all outstanding police-issued citations and sheriff's deputies are asking where all the money from the tickets went. With 174 residents, the city can keep seven police officers on its rolls but missed payments on police and fire department vehicles and saw its last business close its doors a few weeks ago.

"Hark! It's Arkansas" was a category on Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions tonight. In order of ascending value, the questions were:

Q: Like Tennessee, Arkansas has a city named this, but it isn't the "Country Music Capital of the World."
A: What is Nashville?

Q: This presidential daughter was born in Little Rock on February 27, 1980.
A: Who is Chelsea Clinton?

Q: A member of this illustrious and wealthy family was governor of Arkansas from 1967 to 1971.
A: Who is Winthrop Rockefeller?

Q: The collapse of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan was at the heart of this Arkansas scandal.
A: What is Whitewater?

Q: State Line Avenue divides this city in Miller County from the same-named city in the Lone Star State.
A: What is Texarkana?

Not counting the photos of old people in hog hats taken at various regional chapters' annual alumni meet-ups, which are always the centerpiece, this is the only interesting thing from from last week's issue of the Arkansas Alumni Assocation magazine (which was the last of the free issues I've been receiving over the past year). If you ask me, the Running Razorback logo attained perfection in the 1960s and all subsequent revisions were crimes worse than anything Robert Petrino ever did.

http://i.imgur.com/90OiB.jpg

i'm partial to the 1930s version, which just made me think of the nonexistent word "Doy-fus"

I was apparently wrong about the last of the free alumni magazines, because this showed up in the mail.

http://i.imgur.com/NNqNopP.jpg

And no, before you ask, I didn't read the article to find out why she's wearing an LSU leg.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-impress-date-fake-heroism-article-1.1296005

was the perfect plan to make him a hero.

When Jeffery Tyler Siegel asked a masked friend to fake an attack on him with a knife, he thought it would endear him to his date.

But instead it's left him a laughingstock, as his potential girlfriend figured out it was simply a failed attempt at romance.


Siegel, 26, took the woman to a romantic lookout spot at Crowley's Ridge Nature Center in Jonesboro, Ark., on Saturday night.

Within minutes a man jumped out from the shadows, wielding a large knife, who told the couple: "You can go, but your girlfriend stays."

Ignoring his order, the woman sprinted off to call cops. Meanwhile, Siegel “fought” with the “stranger,” which left him with a knife slash as they “battled.”

But all was not as it seemed, and when police arrived to search the area they found no trace of the attacker, reports KAIT8.com.

Soon, his date told officers that "something was not right that night" and that Siegel had sent a series of texts before the attack.

Siegel, under pressure to tell the truth, broke down and confessed that he'd asked a pal to attack him so he could appear a hero. He inflicted the injuries on himself, he added.

Neither him, nor his friend, will face charges, but the woman said she would not be in touch with him again following the incident.