Comments(2) [No blog this week. I am attending the C’s conference as a workshop techie with some colleagues in New Orleans. BK]
category: Life
Comments(2) As comic books — or, in more highbrow parlance, graphic novelizations — nudge their way onto the shelves of bookstores and the pages of literary magazines, some well-known writers are trying their hand at the genre. Pop-culture icon Joss Whedon, best-selling novelist Jodi Picoult and rapper Percy Carey are among those feeling the lure of […]
category: Comics, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(2) [Elizabeth and I returned from presenting in San Francisco on Saturday. Both of us presented well and I am always pleased with how National PCA keeps getting better every year as I celebrate my fifth consecutive year presenting at that conference. Here is a recap about our trip: Day 0 Our friends David McClure and […]
category: Comics, Life, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(0) [No blog this week. I am presenting “Community, Rhetoric, and Poetics in Superman: Birthright” at the National Popular Culture Association conference. BK]
category: Life, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(2) [Elizabeth’s presentation moved again due to a conflict with our flight leaving San Francisco. Here is her presentation as printed now in the program: Friday, March 21, 2008, 8:00am – 9:30am Golden Gate Hall Salon C2 406 Gender Studies VI: The Monstrous Feminine in Popular Fictions Chair: Kirsten T. Saxton, Mills College “Good Hair and […]
category: Life, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(4) “You can ban kids from listening to rock ‘n’ roll music, but they’re going to anyway,” he added. “It’s the same with information, and it’s a bad educator that bans their students from reading Wikipedia.” In 2005, at the height of the controversy over the site’s accuracy, Mr Wales told the BBC that students who […]
category: Pedagogy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Technology
Comments(5) “I remember when I started here,” said Jim Hawes, who has taught math at Bishop Kelly for 11 years. “I thought I could get the kids to appreciate the symmetry of math and the intrinsic beauty of a balanced equation. That got beaten out of me midway through my second year, when my car was […]
category: Humor, Pedagogy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(0) [From Jim Gaffigan’s Beyond the Pale comedy special. Hilarious! BK]
category: Humor, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Television
Comments(3) Look at this list of award-winning graphic novels. Especially if you want to understand another item in the news, like Kosovo peeling itself away from Serbia (graphic journalist Joe Sacco‘s Balkan War novels shed ink and insight on the region. To understand what’s popping off in Palestine, check out Sacco’s book of the not-quite-a-recognized-country‘s same […]
category: Comics, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(3) Freeverse’s first idea is for a line of “Flick Sports” products for the iPhone and iPod touch — 3D games that utilize the device’s unique input controls for immersive gameplay. Freeverse said it’s working on golf, bowling, soccer and baseball games to start. –Peter Cohen
category: Gaming, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Technology