The Time Machine of Not Leaving

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February 17th, 2011

Early last December, I was checking movie times online and it appeared that my favorite Lower Queen Anne movie theatre was no longer operating. “That can’t be!,” I thought, for just a few days ago, I had picked up my friend Richard there after he watched a matinee of “The Social Network.” How could it [...]

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Patronizing Victoria

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January 21st, 2011

We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals by Gillian Gill My rating: 3 of 5 stars I had high hopes for this new biography of the relationship between Queen Victoria and Prince Consort Albert. While I learned a fair bit and enjoyed walking through their history, the biography suffers from some of my most [...]

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My Top Ten Favorite Films Of All Time

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December 26th, 2010

For years, I’ve used the phrase “it’s in my top 10 films of all time” to defend or add credibility to a film that was getting overlooked or dismissed by somebody. Of course I’d only say it if it really was in my top ten, but a few weeks ago I got caught off guard [...]

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A Blessing & A Prayer

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December 9th, 2010

Today was the final day of BTI 501 Introduction to the Hermeneutical Task at MHGS where I had the honor and privilege of assisting Prof. Dwight Friesen these past four months. Here’s the benediction I offered the students at the end of their first term of graduate school. A Blessing A Prayer May you read [...]

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My First Movie –or- Top 10 Things I Learned Watching Amadeus at Age 4

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October 12th, 2010

I remember going in to see Chariots of Fire and I remember exiting Return of the Jedi,* but the first movie I actually remember seeing is Amadeus. *(If I ever exit through the doors next to the screen at the front of a movie theater auditorium, I always think of the Imperial Guards from Return [...]

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Jet Bike Steve, Jimmy Fallon and Other Signs of our Changing Textual Identites

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October 7th, 2010

In “Introduction to the Hermeneutical Task” today at MHGS, I got to lecture on some questions that have been buzzing in my brain for quite some time now. I am obsessively curious about and amazed by the changing role of text and author in a culture where, due to blogs and social media, we are [...]

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Watching “The West Wing” For The First Time Haiku

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September 27th, 2010

Proof that I’m in my 30′s: Timothy Busfield kinda turns me on.

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When Good People Makes Bad Films

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September 23rd, 2010

The critically acclaimed and greatly anticipated (by myself and Maryann) film “Me and Orson Welles” by Richard Linklater proved one of the biggest film disappointments since, well…it was one of the most colossal movie let-downs in recent memory. Since I find it ultimately undeserving of a review, here instead are quotes from mine and Maryann’s [...]

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Really Kj? Another Picassa Collage?

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September 8th, 2010

Last week I had my first day as Teaching Assistant for “Introduction to the Hermeneutical Task” at MHGS. Professor Dwight Friesen invited me to introduce myself using any images I might like. I hemmed and hawed, and eventually since it was a class about how we approach and interpret text, I decided to show a [...]

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Reading & Writing as Heroic Acts: The Heroine’s Bookshelf

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August 5th, 2010

The Heroine’s Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder by Erin Blakemore My rating: 5 of 5 stars Sometimes you love a book not so much for the new things it brings you, but for how it names what you’ve always known. Such is The Heroine’s Bookshelf. By profiling twelve of the [...]

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