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Day 6: Loving and Hating Nintendo

January 28, 2017 phillUncategorized

The Nintendo Switch comes out in a little over a month. I want one. Badly. I grew up with Zelda and Mario and Samus. The next Zelda is on the Switch (and yes, I know,[…]

Day 5: Dressing professional

January 28, 2017 phillUncategorized

My friend Katie talks at length about dressing professionally, but today I’m just going to riff a little about my own attire. It was, shockingly, a point of discussion at work once a few years[…]

Day 4: Ad Hominem is the new Black

January 26, 2017 phillUncategorized

“But Christopher M. Johnson suggests, in his study of the ad hominem, that “given our intellectual limitations and the pressures we are faced with to make decisions in the absence of final or compelling evidence,[…]

Day 3: Trump's America I: Water and Science

January 26, 2017 phillUncategorized

Nothing’s so loud/as hearing when we lie/the truth is not kind/and you’ve said neither am I -Glen Phillips, Toad the Wet Sprocket, “All I Want” I hate to be a “Not My President” person, as[…]

Day 2: Woke

January 25, 2017 phillUncategorized

So this is interesting. As a person who wouldn’t use that particular word to describe my own experiences, as much as I respect it, I want to instead of ranting about how people act offer[…]

It begins.

January 24, 2017 phillrealtalk

Brave men didn’t die face down in the Vietnam mud so I could not style on you/ I didn’t walk uphill both ways to the booth and back to not wild on you/ You think[…]

The riddle of Academic Identity (for my class, but for everyone, really)

January 6, 2017 phillUncategorized

For anyone reading this who doesn’t know, I teach a class every winter term at Miami on the topic of digital identity. It changed departments with me, but the core concepts are the same, and[…]

Thanksgiving: to my mother

November 28, 2013 phillUncategorized

“I finally understand for a woman it ain’t easy tryin to raise a man You always was committed A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it There’s no way I can[…]

Old Cherokee stories, 99 Problems, and cursing in Blog Posts

November 23, 2013 phillUncategorized

I tried to ignore him and talk to the Lord Pray for him, cause some fools just love to perform You know the type loud as a motor bike But wouldn’t bust a grape in[…]

in anticipation of my winter term class: say my name

November 19, 2013 phillUncategorized

There’s a scene, from the now finished television drama Breaking Bad (a show no one liked, right?) wherein the protagonist (I’d call him a hero, but he’s really not very heroic) Walter White comes face-to-face[…]