I feel like lightening the mood after yesterday’s post, so I’m going to do a little bit of a memoir piece today. I’m going to write about the first birthday I can remember. I think[…]
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Day 354: A moment with Dan Harmon
On this week’s edition of Harmontown, Dan talked about an inappropriate interaction he had with a young female writer when he ran Community for NBC. The story is sad, with Dan ending up so in[…]
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Day 353: Maybe we’re doing it wrong
Today I had the opportunity to sit on a small panel to discuss interdisciplinary work with one of my colleague’s classes. I enjoy such opportunities, and I’m glad I was able to stop in. I[…]
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Day 352: One more chunk of that Year to Come thing
The last page of that booklet Julie and I filled out last year is a set of six sentences to complete to describe your year. I’m going to do that again, here, now so I[…]
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Day 351: Magical Triplets (not the Elite)
Today was not a great day. I’ve just been kind of off, things have been hitting me weird. But I decided to look again at that planning the year thing from last year. It has[…]
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Day 350: On the Personal of visual rhetoric
We’re to the point in my current class where we discuss one of my favorite Anne Wysocki readings, and combining that with some other material, I talk to students about visual impressions of people. It’s[…]
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Day 349: The difference between “educated” and “elite”
I’ve been thinking on this topic for a bit, and each time I start to write about it, I pull back, as I sense that some people will balk at it. So I want to[…]
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Day 348: It’s getting a little 41 up in here: a birthday wish list
Hi, all. I decided today to do something really silly and practical but also hilarious in what I might pick– to memorialize the birthday of the Tumblr blog for that class I taught on lists,[…]
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Day 347: Skeletor
When I was in kindergarten, I broke my leg. Well, a drunk driver broke my leg, or gravity broke my leg… my leg was broken is the takeaway here. During the year I spent off[…]
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Day 346: top 5 in NJPW
I used to have an entire blog, built for a class, that was just top five lists. The class, for anyone interested, was based on the Nick Hornby book High Fidelity and the idea of[…]
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