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Day 56: A mid-term reflection on hybrid classes

March 19, 2017 phillPedagogy

If you’ve ever explored my website, you probably came across my teaching philosophy statement. What that statement doesn’t detail is my in-classroom persona. It’s a part of my teaching that has been complimented by every[…]

Day 55: Safety in the new America

March 19, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

I’ve said to just about anyone who would listen that I felt like the real change from the Obama presidency to the Trump one is that with Obama we had the symbology and pretense of[…]

Day 54: All the Small Things

March 18, 2017 phillUncategorized

it has been a long, eventful week. There are things I’d love to write about here, but they aren’t my stories, so at the end of a long week, I simply want to talk about[…]

Day 53: Villains

March 16, 2017 phillmemoir

This is a revised version of a little musing I had a while back. I used to teach with Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity as a course reading, and part of what I did in those[…]

Day 52: so for a generation we got Warpath

March 15, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

“Said it was blue When your blood was red That’s how ya got a bullet blasted through your head” -Zack de la Rocha, who I quote all the time, “Bullet in Your Head” from RAtM[…]

Day 51: Day 50 Director's cut: Zeroed out Dawns and Zero Sum Games

March 15, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

This was the original version of my Day 50 post that I chose to re-write at the last minute because I felt bad calling out comments. I decided after talking with a few people that[…]

Day 50: Zero Sum Game and race relations

March 14, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

Yes, I know my enemies! They’re the teachers who taught me to fight me! Compromise! Conformity! Assimilation! Submission! Ignorance! Hypocrisy! Brutality! The elite! All of which are American dreams! -Zack de la Rocha, “Know Your[…]

Day 49: Brackets and the people

March 12, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

This week starts the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament, our beloved March Madness. For two weeks (not so much the last one due to their being fewer games) legions of employees ignore work to find a[…]

Day 48: The Half-life of Collecting

March 11, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

I collect Funko Pop figures. I have… a bunch. Like over 150 of them. That’s not nearly as much as some of the collectors you can find on Reddit, but it’s still a significant number[…]

Day 47: Bobby Knight is Human Garbage

March 11, 2017 phillrealtalk

“And I’m scared that I talk too much about what I think’s going on/I got a way with this, they might drag me away for this/Put me in a cage for this, I might pay[…]