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My Crash Course: August 2014
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014. In my own defense, however, I have reasons for the way I am. I grew up gay and very religious on a farm in rural Texas. AIDS made the headlines when I was beginning to think about sex. Also, I was intelligent. A counselor once measured my IQ and then declared that he had never seen such a high score. I nonetheless concur with Peggy Hill: "Well, whoop-dee-doo! I am the smartest hillbilly in Hillbilly Town! And yes, I was class valedictorian.). Some of my happiest times have been ...
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My Crash Course: Frankie Says See This Film
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Frankie Says See This Film. Third film viewed at the fourth annual Oak Cliff Film Festival. Was dir. Brendan Toller's Danny Says. The more I know about the world, people, and music of this era, the more insatiable my nostalgic desire for it. Did he have pets? Did his musical sensibilities come solely from his role as a listener? Simply: I wanted to know more about him. Eagerly awaiting the sequel. Trailer can be viewed here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Sophists Seen ...
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My Crash Course: MH17
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Friday, July 17, 2015. I've been dreading this day for a year now: the first anniversary of when flight MH17 was shot down by thugs in eastern Ukraine with a Buk on loan from the Russian military. But I'm getting ahead of myself. On the sofa in the early morning haze of my first day of jet lag reading Twitter when one of the journalists in eastern Ukraine writes, Oh god…. But this isn't about my empathy, my sympathy, the sheer horror I still feel about their senseless deaths. It is about the lack of ...
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My Crash Course: March 2014
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Thursday, March 6, 2014. The Crimean Tense: When Past Is Present. This ruse seems to be Putin’s attempt toward plausible deniability, except that from the very beginning of the occupation, everyone already either knew or assumed that it was indeed the Russian military coming ashore. Can it be a masquerade if nobody is really fooled? Isn’t a masquerade precisely when a person pretends to be someone else instead of pretending to be no one at all? Just as precise borders are a fiction, so, too, is the past&...
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My Crash Course: April 2015
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015. I rarely feel or experience white privilege as such. As someone who grew up in poverty in rural Texas, I always thought the battle was between the poor and the rich. My entire experience growing up corroborated that fact. At no other time do I feel white privilege more acutely than when poor black people are protesting. But do the privileged even protest? It is one of a few things that I will always drag with me from my past. (Poor me, no? I still, however, know in ways foreign...
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My Crash Course: February 2014
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014. The Adjunct: Confessions and Manifesto of a Benefits-Deprived Professor. First, we need to create honest and accurate language. Adjunct. Designates an inessential supplement, yet adjunct professors are just as permanent a fixture at colleges and universities trying to save a buck—that is, all. Colleges and universities—as "temporary buildings" are at American elementary and secondary schools. We are permanent, regardless of our expendability. Or at the very least, teach your s...
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My Crash Course: June 2014
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Thursday, June 19, 2014. What we call things, and how we classify those things, is necessarily an abstraction. We take what we perceive to be individual items and group them together according to some imposed or perceived structure, a commonality among them. Or we take a group, a collective, a mass, and individuate its various components. How we go about this process reveals our own ideological blind spots. Here, to preserve is to ascribe value to the event, place, person, thing. Because of the value...
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My Crash Course: July 2014
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Friday, July 25, 2014. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). During the holiday fireworks over the weekend he remembered his grandfather who lost his sight in the early days of World War II. Every Four. Facebook Like and Share. Last 7 Days Pageviews. Во Флориде арестовали Владимира Путина. Book Notes - Kirstin Allio "Clothed, Female Figure". 104 Photo Editing Tools You Should Know About. Matsieng Footprints in Kgatleng, Botswana. BAALBECK by Etel Adnan (2). An und für sich. Essaying To Be Rober...
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My Crash Course: June 2015
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Frankie Says See This Film. Third film viewed at the fourth annual Oak Cliff Film Festival. Was dir. Brendan Toller's Danny Says. The more I know about the world, people, and music of this era, the more insatiable my nostalgic desire for it. Did he have pets? Did his musical sensibilities come solely from his role as a listener? Simply: I wanted to know more about him. Eagerly awaiting the sequel. Trailer can be viewed here. Links to this post. Monday, June 22, 2015. The passeng...
