A Ken Burns Sepia-Toned Archive of Posts
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my task management app can’t cure my ennui
I would like all semester breaks to just be a break in the work, but not necessarily a break of being on campus. Perhaps I don’t want a faculty job, but something in support or admin so I no longer have to be in this holding pattern until I can be myself again. I hate Continue reading
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It wasn’t snow at all!
It’s been a while since I read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and I was reminded of it when I just watched A Trip to the Moon the 1902 silent film by Georges Méliès. The wizard/scientists fall asleep on the surface of the moon (as you do) and are awakened by snow, created by Continue reading
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Maybe it’s the better alternative?
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/14/fortnite-epic-games-lawsuit-addictive As someone who gets time-blindness playing a game, watching a film, reading a book or manga, these kids are escaping reality and I don’t think that’s quite the same as addiction. Games, especially those with micro-transactions, are built to keep the player playing and paying. Anybody been to Las Vegas? Though I can spend Continue reading
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In which I get in my own way, again
Vague spoilers for Hunter X Hunter and Demon Slayer: Mugen Train, I think. I don’t know if I’ve talked about this before, but when watching Hunter X Hunter, and the Demon Slayer movie, I found myself puzzle by the deaths of certain characters and the emotional toll that it placed on the protagonist. I felt Continue reading
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Summer School? 🤖
Just proposed my first summer course: Terminators, Cyborgs, and Hackers: the thematic algorithms in science fiction film. If it gets picked up for the schedule, I’ll post the syllabus here. Phew. Continue reading
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Heather annotates: “Beware the ‘Storification’ of the Internet”
In which I post my own notes about an article that got me thinking about how we think about stories. Continue reading
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