Archive for November, 2006

Acceptance – National Scholars Honor Society (National Scholars Honor Society)

Posted by on November 18, 2006 * Comments(24)

Thank you for your interest in The National Scholars Honor Society. The membership committee has reviewed and approved your application for membership. It is my honor and privilege to extend congratulations on your acceptance into The National Scholars Honor Society. Our membership of over 50,000 university scholars and students welcomes you.

category: Acceptances, Life    

Casino Royale (Sony Pictures)

Posted by on November 17, 2006 * Comments(5)

[Sweetness! Casino Royale is released today. I am a huge Bond fan and I attended opening night for each movie since Tomorrow Never Dies. Here is my list of Bond actors from best to worst: Pierce Brosnan, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Sean Connery, George Lazenby. We will see how Daniel Craig fits after I see […]

category: Popular Culture    

Final Fantasy III (Square Enix)

Posted by on November 15, 2006 * Comments(0)

[All right! Here we go again…Final Fantasy III for Nintendo DS released today. BK]

category: Gaming, Popular Culture, Technology    

Spring 2007 Book Order (Discourse Chronicle)

Posted by on November 14, 2006 * Comments(2)

[Here is my list of assigned textbooks for my freshman composition students next semester with rationales: Writer’s Harbrace Handbook (Third Edition) Texas A&M University uses the Harbrace Handbook as a standard adoption, but our department is not switching to third edition until next year, due to custom cover requests. Despite that, I received permission to […]

category: Comics, Life, Literacy, Pedagogy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics    

Mr. Kuechenmeister and the Green Pen (Discourse Chronicle)

Posted by on November 11, 2006 * Comments(2)

[Today I spent all afternoon grading half of my freshman composition students’ papers on Argument and I wished for comment stampers again. All of my students are aware that I grade using a nice green fine-point pen, which some of them believe is symbolic of kryptonite because we previously talked about Superman, but perhaps some […]

category: Life, Pedagogy    

Sweet Eugene’s Travel Mug (Discourse Chronicle)

Posted by on November 3, 2006 * Comments(0)

[For over a year now, my apartment complex resides across the street from a local coffee shop called Sweet Eugene’s House of Java, which is now a popular hangout for myself and many of my colleagues. I admit that I probably spend money for uniquely flavored coffee too often, but such spending is justified because […]

category: Life    

The Day the Music Died (Wired)

Posted by on November 3, 2006 * Comments(2)

Gene Luen Yang is a teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area who also happens to be a fine illustrator. He produced a graphic novel (or “comic book,” as we used to call them), American Born Chinese, which has been nominated for a National Book Award in the young people’s literature category. I have not […]

category: Comics, Literacy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics