Comments(0) Lois Maxwell played Miss Moneypenny in 14 films from 1962’s Dr. No to 1985’s A View to a Kill and passed away in Fremantle Hospital, according to the BBC, after a battle with cancer. –Actress Archives [Miss Moneypenny may be the only woman from James Bond movies who never slept with Bond. Interesting. BK]
category: Popular Culture
Comments(3) [Today I taught my section of Introductory Writing with Elizabeth as an observer and I realized how far I come with my teaching. The lesson focused on giving my students practice with integrating sources using a handout showing small sample passages without quotes and then quotes alongside them. Students needed to copy the passage and […]
category: Life, Pedagogy, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(2) [A few days ago, I finally replaced my 512MB RAM Hewlett-Packard desktop computer with a new iMac, which completes my conversion from PC. Transitioning from Windows proved relatively painless aside from experiencing empty folders when I burned a copy of my transferred files. For some reason, my iMac saved my files, but did not copy […]
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Comments(0) A new movie, though, is taking on that stereotype. “Hollywood Librarians,” a documentary, takes scenes from movies that involve librarians – scenes that usually portray them as harsh, mousy, mean, angry, too focused, boring or sexless – and mixes interviews with real-life librarians. It is probably the first time any film has focused on the […]
category: Popular Culture
Comments(7) [“Are you Bobby?” asked a woman in Grounds for Thought as I turned around from looking at a rack of paperback books. I looked slightly perplexed because I expected someone with longer hair and she arrived early. I answered her and she said, “I’m Elizabeth,” as she extended a hand out to shake mine. I […]
category: Life