That’ll be me. Professor Craig Duff.  It’s now official. I’m heading to Evanston, Illinois.(According to the Sacramento Bee)

Here is a piece I produced with TIME international photo editor Patrick Witty, who followed photographer Peter Hapak as he created portraits of dozens of protesters in locations around the world (Spain, Greece, Egypt, Tunisia, India, Mexico and the U.S.) for TIME’s Person of the Year issue.

Me at the beach on Christmas day in Melbourne Beach, Florida And a couple of lizards at the Brevard County Zoo

As much as I dislike the crowds coming to gawk at leggy rockettes and see the tree at Rock Center, the neighborhood where I work has its charms this time of year… especially on a misty evening like last night.

Happy to report that my neighbor has been nominated for a Grammy award. Gowanus-dweller Eric Epstein directed and post-produced a music video for the New Jersey band Memory Tapes, whose new album was released in July. For the track “Yes I Know,” Epstein shot scenes in our neighborhood, and enlisted my President street neighbor Ben

How do you condense the 100 tunes we chose for the 100 Songs of All-TIME into a three-minute mashup? I didn’t know either until I tried it this week. It was a challenge to take 100 cuts, spanning from Al Jolson to Janelle Monae (1924 to last year). It ends up being an average of

Last month, I spoke at the Nordic Media Summit in Copenhagen, where I met a delightful crowd of very smart people working in streaming media in the Nordic countries and beyond. This photo is from a boat ride in the canals we made at dusk. More photos from the event can be seen here.

And now for something completely different. Have you ever heard Erik Satie or ‘Bésame Mucho’ played on a saw? Here’s your chance, in this TIME Video by filmmaker Michael Tapp. And the most popular dog on facebook paid a visit to TIME’s newsroom last week: