The girl was concerned she wasn’t nerdy enough, so she’s taken to wearing a prop ring on a chain around her neck and calling it “My Precious.” (Photo credit: Kelly Tunney.) Similar:The dress we ordered for the “girl next door” role in The Fantasticks… vs the dress that…AestheticsIt's Friday night in July, and I'm jamming…
I’m gobsmacked by the creativity that went into researching, writing, and crafting this layout. A look at how students in the Kansas City region commemorated the campaign in keepsakes meant to be enjoyed by all classmates, no matter their leanings. Source: It Was Hard This Year to Keep Politics Out of High School Yearbooks Similar:Audisee…
The Washington Post, famous for breaking the Watergate scandal that brought down Nixon’s presidency, is churning out top-quality journalism in the age of Trump. As an organization the Post is gaining readers, hiring journalists and scooping its competition. As a private company since 2013, when the deep-pocketed Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought it for $250…
This is why I spend time teaching my journalism students about how to write photo captions. Which description is more trustworthy? Which description will likely get more shares on social media? Similar:Prime Stage presents ‘Twelfth Night’ as season-ending productionLooking forward to seeing this! Set in …CultureHelp! I may be running out of excuses for not…
Similar:Carolyn will portray Cosette Saturday at 2pm with 70 talented Stage Right castmates.The teen summer camp production of Les M…CultureThe #Blender3D #eevee denoising filter gives off a pretty amazing Caldecott prize-winning …The filter won’t replace real hand-drawn…AestheticsSCUBA Diving at the PoolBecause a beautiful sunny day at the poo…CultureHow We Can Help Students Survive in an…
Similar:Scrooge Is My BrotherMy daughter delivered the opening “Marle…CultureWhen she's grown and flown, I will miss the thick deposit of glitter in my back seat.When she’s grown and flown, I will miss …AestheticsIn-home schooling popularity slipping across stateWe were on our way out the door to see A…CultureSeeing Floyd Collins, a musical about caving…
Not a day goes by without The Girl reminding us that everyone else her age has a phone — but she also compares her desire for a phone to Gollum’s desire for The Ring. Many adults have told her she’s lucky not to carry around the burden of social media updates, though part of her…
This fall I will be teaching Shakespeare again; but thereafter, as part of a curriculum redesign, Shakespeare will be rolled into a “Shakespeare in Context” course that will also need to address Beowulf, medieval drama, Arthurian legend, Chaucer, Marlowe, etc. I intend to do this by teaching five different Shakespeare plays, focusing on one play…
It used to bother me that people got all excited about the color shirt that was being worn by a particular person holding (or throwing, or tossing, or avoiding) a small round object. Then I read the Onion article “Walking Sports Database Scorns Walking Sci-Fi Database:” A self-described “sports fanatic” who experiences vicarious thrills through…
Similar:Downtime with the boy.PersonalThat felt sooo good!PersonalFirst they came… #kristallnacht @nccheshuFirst they came… #kristallnacht @ncchesh…PersonalLate night set construction for The Miracle Worker.ArtHey there, chaotic world in academia and beyond, could you settle down just a bit so I can…AcademiaThe girl as Gimli, Legolas, Aragorn and Thorin. #proudofthegirl #notentirelysurewhy #still…Aesthetics
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Similar:Recording my lines for a student escape room project.PersonalOnce on This Island (Stage Right! Greensburg; May 11 & 12 Promo Video)The girl plays Ti Moune in “Once on This…CultureAnother section of a #steampunk control panel. Useful for a cutaway shot after a character…AestheticsIn July 1999, I was blogging about Dante's ashes, Apollo 11, gender-neutral language,…
Similar:My parents doing their daily crossword puzzle.PersonalSalesman at Pittsburgh Public Theatre. PersonalAnother #steampunk #neovictorian control panel module. #blender3d #blender3dart #design #…AestheticsMore rehearsing. More dancing. PersonalWhich of my colleagues wants attention?AcademiaFall 2021 Grades Submitted Mission accomplished.Academia
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Day 1 Today was my first full shipwrecked day after our ship hit some sharp rocks a half mile offshore. What started out as a team-building trip to the Cook Islands has turned into a true nightmare. #OnlySurvivor #PleaseSendHelp #SurvivalSundays #HolisticRescueMarketing —McSweeney’s Internet Tendency Similar:What's a Snollygoster? Even lexicographers are wrong sometimesThis is an amusing little…
Hum de dum. Not paying any attention to current events at all, just thinking about possibly teaching Richard III in my Shakespeare class this fall. Oh, look, Dwight Goodyear posted commentary on Agnes Heller’s book The Time is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of History. How interesting. You know, to those of us who care about…
My “Media Aesthetics” students worked with students from Elizabeth Jacobs’s “Social Psychology” class, where students wrote editorials and designed infographics about cognitive dissonance. My students helped the psychology students with their drafts, then chose essays they thought had a good chance of going viral, and used WordPress, Facebook, Twitter and Hootsuite to publicize those selections. Similar:Oh the…
Similar:The Offspring (StarTrek:TNG Rewatch, Season Three, Episode 16) Data Experiences FatherhoodRewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break….CybercultureAs a student journo, naturally I covered the visit from Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry…I recall just sort of telling the editor…AcademiaThe boy is visiting the Prohibition exhibit @HistoryCenter while I continue at NeMLA.PersonalSome editing and cropping makes this cartoon…
I loved listening to her practice the “Money, money, money, money, money” monologue in her mirror. Similar:I came of age playing too many CD-ROM point-and-click adventure games to ignore these stee…I came of age playing too many CD-ROM po…AestheticsAnother 10 sq cm of details for a #steampunk control panel. Just background eye candy, not…AestheticsThe press…