This story broke amid the crazy frenetic flow of weekly politics. Now it’s not a big deal, I don’t guess. I mean in the scheme of things, this is just a small thing that President[…]
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Day 25: What it is we do
“So me put in/work, work, work, work, work work” -Rihanna, “Work” I am exhausted today from chores, grading, class prep and bathing two dogs, but I want to share a quick story. I like what[…]
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Day 24: Ravenos
“Jewel Runner, bitch/make the name stick/not for sale/but I’m taking payment” -El-P, “Lie Cheat Steal,” Run the Jewels 2 Today, just a quick hitter. I was talking to some of my students about gamer tags[…]
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Day 23: Nostalgia and the Power of Persuasion
It’s day 23, and ironically my childhood was marked in many ways by the 23s I wore on pretty much everything. I was a huge Michael Jordan fan. In fact if you were one of[…]
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Day 22: A full-on non-dialogue dialogue with an old friend
One of the members of my PhD committee, Bill Hart-Davidson, was the guy who I turned to when I needed a voice of calm reason during my dissertation writing process. He always managed to see[…]
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Day 21: "we live in a cynical world"
Just watch this. Baudrillard rests his case.
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Day 20: A little history
“‘Pocahontas is now the face of your party,’ Trump said in the meeting, sources told CNN.” From the Hill, just so I’m not directly linking CNN. If you don’t know the non-Disney Pocahontas story, Wikipedia has[…]
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Day 19: Why teach Dungeons & Dragons?
“You are not entering this world in the usual manner, for you are setting forth to be a Dungeon Master. Certainly there are stout fighters, mighty magic-users, wily thieves, and courageous clerics who will make[…]
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Day 18: My favorite quote and a start to circling back to a rhetoric of anger
Brother, did you forget your name? -Zack de la Rocha, Rage Against the Machine, “Freedom” My senior thesis, way back in the free-wheeling days of the year 2000, when I was still just a little[…]
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Day 17: "you are playing D&D for a class?"
Tonight my Writing For Games students spent 2.5 hours playing Dungeons & Dragons (if you’re curious why, pedagogically, that’s my planned weekend posts). I’m exhausted tonight after teaching all day then driving home in the[…]
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