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Disjointed Observations: The End
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Thoughts on Books, Publishing, Film, Star Trek, and Other Alleged Scholarly Pursuits. Saturday, May 29, 2010. Find me now at the new Disjointed Observations. Mpelling effort for me. And if it failed to be those things for me, there is slight chance that it would be those things f. I started watching Lost. And Alan Sepinwall, who has recently taken his very good blog to Hitfix.com. I am a fool for not producing this sort of content more often. This interest in Lost. I have lagged far behind my peers when ...
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Disjointed Observations: Batman & the Failure of Moral Absolutism
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Thoughts on Books, Publishing, Film, Star Trek, and Other Alleged Scholarly Pursuits. Sunday, March 28, 2010. Batman and the Failure of Moral Absolutism. Earlier this week I read Kevin Smith’s new collected Batman tale, Cacophony. Which takes the villain Onomatopoeia from his run on Green Arrow. From about ten years ago (! Ld have done without the reference to a green merkin, the shift made the later issues seem too sparse. The Federation has moral absolutes about how other people should be treated, how ...
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Disjointed Observations: August 2009
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Thoughts on Books, Publishing, Film, Star Trek, and Other Alleged Scholarly Pursuits. Wednesday, August 26, 2009. The State of Star Trek Literature. It was announced today that Star Trek. Books editor Margaret Clark was laid off. In another round of cutbacks from Simon and Schuster. Though I have been highly critical of her work. I have mixed feelings about the move. But while fanboys on the interwebs are justifying the move as being solely based on overall market conditions. Were abysmal. However, t...
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Disjointed Observations: April 2010
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Thoughts on Books, Publishing, Film, Star Trek, and Other Alleged Scholarly Pursuits. Thursday, April 22, 2010. Seventh Commandment: Thou shalt not steal. In recovery, addicts will often refer to their behavior when using as an act of theft. If you a. Re getting drunk rather than spending time with your children, you are stealing the presence of a loving parent from them. If you ar. An affecting and well produced entry even if it seemed slightly transparent to. Has had the support of a parent stolen by h...
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Disjointed Observations: December 2009
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Thoughts on Books, Publishing, Film, Star Trek, and Other Alleged Scholarly Pursuits. Wednesday, December 30, 2009. Hyperink Cinema: An Investigation. Therefore, a similar approach seems appropriate when examining the films that fall under the new category called ‘hyperlink cinema,’ a term coined by Alissa Quart. That acknowledges the influence of the internet and multitasking on the narrative structure of said films. As with the rem. Ediation of the digital into print, examples can be found that predate...
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Disjointed Observations: September 2009
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Thoughts on Books, Publishing, Film, Star Trek, and Other Alleged Scholarly Pursuits. Sunday, September 13, 2009. No one hesitates to tell me that I am in the minority when I state my preference for Bajoran religious and political stories above all others in. And perhaps I am one of the few who has lamented the absence of further stories involving the Ea’voq, Bajor’s sister planet in the Gamma Quadrant, since Rising Son. But I think that Olivia Woods’s new novel The Soul Key. Links to this post. And brou...
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Disjointed Observations: July 2009
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Thoughts on Books, Publishing, Film, Star Trek, and Other Alleged Scholarly Pursuits. Monday, July 13, 2009. A group of contributors at The Second Pass. Have compiled a list of ten books that should be stricken from the canon. As it says in the introduction, this ‘is a list of ten books that will be pressed into your hands by ardent fans. Resist these people. Life may not be too short (I’m only in my mid-30s, and already pretty bored), but it’s not endless.’. Which I read in high school and thought was f...
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Disjointed Observations: Reading List: April 2010
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Thoughts on Books, Publishing, Film, Star Trek, and Other Alleged Scholarly Pursuits. Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Reading List: April 2010. After returning from the PCA/ACA National Conference last month. I was contacted by a couple of professors from SUNY Potsdam who are editing a book on digital rhetoric inviting me to submit my presentation as. I am beginning a look at the way the third season of Star Trek: Enterprise. I also found out this afternoon that I was placed on the wait list for Florida's program,...
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Disjointed Observations: Reading List: February 2010
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Thoughts on Books, Publishing, Film, Star Trek, and Other Alleged Scholarly Pursuits. Tuesday, March 2, 2010. Reading List: February 2010. For some reason these monthly recaps of my reading have also become a place for me to keep those who read this space updated on my scholarship and academic life, and though I am not all that traditional, I do not like change all that much either. As such, I haven't spent as much time as I would have liked working on my conf. To a doctoral program, yet that day ended w...
