Comments(3) [For a while now, I fought with a number of my personal demons such as jealousy and competition, but now I believe I understand why I lost control of them. Last semester, I failed a graduate course (a C = an F in graduate school) and that experience left me flawed and feeling inadequate. I […]
category: Life
Comments(31) [People who know me know I am a Tom Petty fan. “Saving Grace” is the first single from his new solo album, Highway Companion, following up Full Moon Fever and Wildflowers. Sweet! BK]
category: Poetry, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(0) [Favorite Colbert line: “…he disguised himself as the one thing farthest from a hero – a journalist.” Favorite bulletpoint: “Like get a comics page” (To the New York Times). BK]
category: Comics, Popular Culture, Television
Comments(0) “The acquisition of Harmonix advances MTV Networks’ strategy of connecting with target audiences by creating immersive, multi-platform environments that extend to every device they use,” said Judy McGrath, chairman and CEO, MTV Networks. [Every device except my TV because MTV rarely plays music videos anymore. Harmonix makes the Guitar Hero games for PlayStation. BK]
category: Gaming, Popular Culture, Technology
Comments(1) [I am in my office holding an extra day of office hours waiting for any students to come and ask for help before we turn in our first papers tomorrow. As I wait for anyone to visit, I am working on my coursework for next week along with blogging and checking things out on Facebook. […]
category: Life, Pedagogy, Rhetoric and Poetics, Technology
Comments(4) “Wii reinvents games for the devoted player, but more importantly, Wii breaks the wall separating players from nonplayers,” said Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime at yesterday’s Chelsea Piers unveiling. The sleek, white Wii unit is decidedly more iPod than Mario Brothers, and features a two-handed remote controller – one a standard Wii Remote, the […]
category: Popular Culture, Technology
Comments(0) The campaign, which is run by the ecumenical charity Churches’ Advertising Network, aims to provoke debate about God among young people this Christmas. […] The group, which has no formal links with the Roman Catholic Church or the Church of England, has ruffled feathers in previous years by depicting Jesus as Che Guevara. It has […]
category: Humor, Pedagogy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(0) Books in graphic format can be fiction or nonfiction material. “Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island: the Graphic Novel” adapted by Tim Hamilton, and “Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty: the Graphic Novel” adapted by June Brigman, are examples of fiction classics. While “Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad” by Michael Martin, and “Battle of the Alamo” by […]
category: Comics, Literacy, Popular Culture
Comments(5) Not everyone is impressed by graphic novels. Some teachers refuse to assign them to their students, claiming they aren’t challenging to read. But many librarians and teachers stand by the books. “Reading graphic novels leads to reading other things,” says Robin Brenner, a young-adult librarian with the Brookline Public Library in Massachusetts. “There’s a value […]
category: Comics, Literacy, Pedagogy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(0) The first new project to be released under the agreement features New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton. Based on Hamilton’s most famous creation, Anita Blake, Marvel and The Dabel Brothers will release a thrilling new comic book series called Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter in Guilty Pleasures in October 2006. […] Additionally, in the […]
category: Comics, Literacy, Popular Culture