Easter 2017

  Similar:Vote for Carolyn's Headshot — Round 2 Vote for Carolyn’s Headshot — Round…AestheticsDress Rehearsal for "My Son Pinocchio"My wife, daughter, and I waiting to star…AmusingThe daughter opens another show. This weekend only.The daughter opens another show. This we…PersonalMe as a highshool photo-bomber, I presume at the cast party for The Music Man.DramaPrime Stage Theatre…

Easter eggs

Eye of Sauron, Hobbit Door, Palantir and One Ring Easter Eggs.

Similar:Coronavirus: advice from the Middle Ages for how to cope with self-isolationLike many people, I curate my social med…CultureAngel One (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 13) Sexist Amazon chief flips Riker leitmotif, t…Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generatio…AmusingDebunking the newspapers are dying ideaDon’t count on viral social media posts …CultureIn February, 2001, I was blogging…

The American Scholar: Celebrity Profiles

Phllip Lopate writes a good essay on the challenges of writing a celebrity profile. My take: Just as Plato argued that ideal leaders would be so well-balanced that they would not desire to lead (and thus would not have the power-lust that would enable them to rise above their competitors), it follows that ideal celebrity profile writers would be…

Is the United Airlines man being smeared in the media even the right David Dao? It shouldn’t matter

“Doctor dragged off United flight was felon who traded prescription drugs for secret gay sex with patient half his age and took them himself – and he needed anger management, was ‘not forthright’ and had control issues, psychiatrist found,” wrote The Daily Mail this week of Dr David Dao, in probably the longest headline ever…

The facts evolve as we look into how our re-accommodation process that involved goons dragging out a limp and bloodied customer has caused our stock to plunge.

The language in the official United response to the “re-accommodation” incident deserves some analysis . Flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was overbooked. After our team looked for volunteers, one customer refused to leave the aircraft voluntarily and law enforcement was asked to come to the gate. We apologize for the overbook situation. If you “refuse…

Is this the little girl I carried? Is this the little boy at play?

Similar:A rare win for Dad. CultureHandshakes Really Do MatterMonday night handshake/eye contact pract…CultureI've got a lot to learn, but my #blender3D #neovictorian #steampunk cruiser, and this…Aesthetics#SHUConvocation is about to begin @setonhilluniversityPersonal"Only You" — 11yo Carolyn Sings a Power Ballad from "Starlight Express"The observation car Pearl sings of her l…AestheticsThat's what's been bothering me since yesterday's #AirPod…

My precious is fifteen.

  Similar:On my fantasy #steampunk cruiser, every uniform is a parade dress uniform. #Blender3D #ble… The first few weeks of Jun…AestheticsAll three shows have been sold out for over a month. Opens tomorrow.DramaA selfie with a Chekov action figure after learning of Anton Yelchin's deathCurrent_EventsAdam Bard shaves off half his hair and beard on opposite…

I regularly teach Uncle Tom’s Cabin, but have never seen it before.

Similar:Me, contemplating the implications of maybe doing a socialize this weekend.PersonalEssay on meaning of a life grounded in the liberal arts @insidehigheredFor David N. DeVries, the critical think…AcademiaNo, Running Online Classes Isn't CheaperA good response to the myth that the lab…AcademiaAcademic robe, Is this the year I finally send you out to be cleaned? Nah,…

Alike (2015)

This short film reminds us why art matters. Spend 8 minutes watching it. Two heart-wrenching twists, at 5:26 and 5;48 (and the story continues during the closing credits). Similar:Snow White: The Musical Opens Fridayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiIRCoHoN…AestheticsProfessor Sees Parallels Between Things, Other Things”By drawing parallels between things and…AcademiaNYT: G.W. Bush is "super-overexposed" and "so far to our right"…

Medea at Seton Hill University.

Similar:This morning I awoke to YouTube’s live footage of crowds circling a mosque in Mecca. For m… CultureGo not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.First runner-up for the girl’s Halloween…Aesthetics2023 public domain debuts include last Sherlock Holmes workFritz Lang’s Metropolis, the first talki…AcademiaWhen you hear your daughter the…

How Facebook – the Wal-Mart of the internet – dismantled online subcultures

Facebook wants you to spend more time on Facebook, so why should they promote links pointing to content that exists outside of Facebook? Facebook’s approach to content control means that communities that use Facebook have to play by Facebook’s rules. Users have limited ability to communicate with Facebook’s administrators when there’s a problem, as we’ve seen…

Making a case for a singular ‘they’

  I am definitely on team revise-to-avoid-using-“they”-as-a-singular-pronoun, but the 2017 edition of the AP Stylebook (the industry standard writing guide for journalists) acknowledges the limited use of “they” as a singular pronoun. As always, the goal is clarity, not rigid adherence to a rule. They/them/their is acceptable in limited cases as a singular and-or gender-neutral pronoun, when…

California Political Cyberfraud Abatement Act Pulled by Author

California’s Ed Chau withdrew his proposed legislation that would have criminalized the willing sharing of “a false or deceptive statement designed to influence the vote” on any issue or candidate. (The Electronic Frontier Foundation objected to the bill: “You can’t fight fake news with a bad law.”) The bill would also make it unlawful for…

Because words matter, old sport.

Similar:Anti-Semitic Times Square Elmo admits to Girl Scout extortion attemptThe headline made me click the link, and…EthicsMTV VMAs: Will Smith Family's Reaction Was to Gaga, Not Miley (Video)I didn’t watch the show, but I did see t…BusinessCommon Sense Media's AI Initiative When the kids were little, my wife…CybercultureKids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in…

English as a Minor or Second Major: Talk with us about Great Books — Seton Hill University

Similar:Uneasy Lies the Head — Tyrant: Shakespeare on PowerJohn Stubbs reviews Stephen Grenblatt’s …AcademiaSuperman Comic about Sympathy and HopeJust in case someone out there could use…Aesthetics"All for the Best" RehearsalHere’s a brief clip of a rehearsal of “A…AmusingHarvard Science Historian Publishes Results of Unprecedented 30-Year Census of Copernican …”Catholic church authorities were disple…HistoryEncounter at Farpoint…

Thank you, Herald Standard journalist Kelly Tunney, for visiting my class today.

Similar:Facebook just dealt another potentially lethal blow to local journalismFacebook will pay some publishers millio…BusinessMan Infected with Ebola Misinformation Through Casual Contact With Cable NewsOn the other end of the link, the New Yo…AmusingGoogle Pledges $300 Million to Clean Up False NewsThis is a welcome step, but we cannot tr…CultureBloomberg's Jennifer Jacobs broke the story…

What’s in this old box from the student newspaper office? Why, it’s a vintage Polaroid camera.

Similar:80 Days: "1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the…I stayed up way too late last night play…Cyberculture31 Undeniable Truths That Journalism Majors Can All Agree OnBecause you know you have the chance to …AcademiaA new study shows that students learn way more effectively from print textbooks than scree…Saving this…