Hobbies

I play music regularly with Dead Tongues the Linguistic Department's unofficial Rock Band. And occasionally, I get involved with pick-up bands at summer schools I'm attending, including the Dysfunctional Heads, a band Dan Jurafsky and I organized for a huge `sorority' party at the 1999 Linguistic Institute in Urbana, Illinois. And then there were The Floating Tones (UCSC, 1991) and Sloppy Identity (Ohio State, 1993)....

I also stay in contact with old friends. In 2001, I hooked up with my old roommate at the prepschool I was expelled from as a teenager. Find out more about that HERE .

The 2002 HPSG Conference in Seoul was a lot of fun. And the party on the last night turned into a raucous songfest, thanks to Byung-Soo Park, who provided the refreshments. Here's Bob Levine and me belting out some tune or other: