Comments(8) [Hopefully all of my readers and commenters are enjoying a good holiday with loved ones. Thus far, I managed to see many of my close friends, some of whom are former professors and others are coming soon for a visit as well. Apparently, there is a debate about whether or not to say “Merry Christmas” […]
category: Life
Comments(2) [NBC finished its premiere week for a new game show called Deal or No Deal. Hosted by Howie Mandell, this game show features 26 numbered briefcases, each with a random amount of money placed in them by a third party. Each case contains anywhere from $.01 to $1,000,000. These cases are brought onstage by 26 […]
category: Life, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Television
Comments(2) [Dennis Jerz (one of my mentors from undergraduate) blogged this and I thought it was hilarious. Most of the humor is in the last panel, which highlights how panel-to-panel transitions function from Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics, but some humor may come from Wikipedia’s anonymous editing feature or its recent headlines with Encyclopedia Britannica. BK]
category: Comics, Humor, Popular Culture
Comments(0) What the study highlights is not this problem, one educators know well, but the overall impact of the failure of education in this country. The study reports that only 13% of the population achieves the level designated “Proficient.” […] Only 13% of the population? What percentage of the population graduates from some college? Surely more […]
category: Literacy
Comments(8) An oxygen bar provides users with the ability to inhale 92 to 95 percent oxygen through cannulas (plastic tubes), which are inserted in the nose. Because of pollution and other contaminates, the air we breathe contains about 21 percent oxygen, said Steve Blaustein, owner of AirHeads Oxygen Bars in Coral Springs, Fla. [Dr. Joel Pace […]
category: Health
Comments(5) Dear Bobby, On behalf of both THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART and the “Ever-Ending Battle” Symposium, I would like to thank you for your submission of “Christ, Anti-Christ, or Super-Hero: Green Lantern Through the Looking Glass”. However, due to a combination of space, thematic, and content limitations, I’m sorry to say that your piece […]
category: Life, Rejections
Comments(9) [Are you my reader? I wonder about this whenever I am doing one of my blog sessions. One thing that fascinates me about hypertext, new media, and blogging is how much potential there is to build an interactive community through its users via computers. However, in order for that to happen, there needs to be […]
Comments(2) [I believe all of us have a soundtrack to our lives, usually reflected by a CD collection, or general music tastes. I am unable to speak for anybody else, but there are certain moments throughout my life when my own soundtrack plays loudly in my head, such as today. Once I turned in my final […]
category: Life
Comments(5) [Eminem released his greatest hits CD, Curtain Call, on Tuesday and I have been listening to it ever since. I am always willing to admit that I listen to Eminem CDs because I believe his angry raps are humorous and they work as motivators for me, especially when I am writing or doing something that […]
category: Life, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(1) “We cannot continue to put unlimited trust in beings who can crush coal into diamonds with their bare hands or move asteroids using energy beams,” says Luthor. “These superheroes–or as I like to call them, superzeros–have weaknesses, and the government should make an effort to learn them–guarding against the day when these do-gooders are no […]
category: Comics, Humor, Popular Culture
