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Notes About Networks
This is one of 50 posts about cyborgs, a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coining of the term. Where Do Cyborgs Come From? The term cyborg is as evocative and cuts as elusive a figure now...
Conservative New York Times Columnist David Brooks Nails What’s Wrong With Slightly Misinterprets James Cameron’s Avatar
New York Times Columnist David Brooks Nails What’s Wrong With Slightly Misinterprets James Cameron’s Avatar ENTRYURL: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/opinion/08brooks.html viaName: Pam viaURL: http://www.facebook.com/pamela.snyder TIME: 09:56:26 //--> Neytiri and Jake Sully (source) On Saturday night (9 January 2010), I posted and retracted a...
“The San Francisco Roach is Generally German or Oriental in Derivation”
Pacific Heights»Pacific Heights. Dir. John Schlesinger. 1990.« is a vastly underrated psychological thriller. Part of the problem likely is the wooden acting by Matthew Modine and the unconvincing ditzy by Melanie Griffith, though Michael Keaton plays creep quite well.1...
Reassessing The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski ENTRYURL: http://www.metafilter.com/87913/The-Year-in-Dude-Studies#2883496 viaName: viaURL: TIME: 23:06:58 //--> Even having seen the Coen Brothers’ The Big Lebowski three or four times, I really did not like the film too much. I was annoyed by Lebowski’s unconsidered and Hollywoodified...
The Demise of Naiveté
This time of year is always a mixed bag for me. I grew up in a largely Korean household which practiced no distinct holiday traditions. Christmas gift-giving was limited mainly to adults giving gifts to the children. The season...
In the Future Everyone Will Have Their 12 Seconds of Fame
Prelim Watching a video debate about whether President Obama should shame unprincipled detractors by identifying them, I came across a video that asks “Is Lady Gaga Sexy Or Just Crazy?” The moment I saw this picture Lady GaGa in...
This Is It: Portrait of the Artist as an Entertainer
This Is It: Portrait of the Artist as an Entertainer ENTRYURL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1477715/ viaName: viaURL: TIME: 09:02:42 //--> I was not expecting to write this post. Last night Pam, my mother, and I went to see This Is It at the...
The Decline of the English Department
Early in his analysis of The Decline of the English Department, William Chace asserts that what is at the root of the decline is the failure of departments of English across the country to champion, with passion, the books...
Some Thoughts Regarding the Creation of Text-to-Speech Audiobooks Using Consumer-Grade Software, or One Possible Outcome for Academic Professionalism as a Result of Fully Digitzed Text
Codex Books, Audiobooks, and Assistive Devices: A Tale of Near Misses The last book I checked out of Alden Library while still a faculty at Ohio University was Clay Shirky’s 2008 Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without...
Reorganizing This Movable Type Blog: Mistersquid Refreshed
Before returning to California after a 17-year adventure in the world of higher education (one that may not quite be done done), I restructured the way I was developing material for this blog. That restructuring was born of a...
Taking It Lying Down: A Short Addendum to The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception written for the Age of Ubiquitous Television
On Friday, 10 July, Pam and I were in Manhattan, KS, which with bathroom breaks and fuelings is about ninety minutes outside Topeka. Two largish little league baseball teams were also staying where we were lodging, and the breakfast...
Transformers 2, or How to Piss Off Even Midnight Moviegoers
I don’t walk out on films as a matter of principle, but this film took awful to levels I’d never seen before. a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves...
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