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Day 198: New Semester
Today marks the beginning of a new semester and of what will (hopefully) be my last year at UIC. It is not that I don’t like teaching here but I am really looking forward to getting a job as an actual...
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Day 201: Hipster Olympics
Laughed my ass off when I saw this. Not only is it so wunderfully accurate, it also precisely describes the ugly underbelly of neoliberal capitalist logic and its social support system as it manifests...
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Day 206: Brian K. Vaughan…
… has been on the writing staff of Lost for over a year now (executive story editor!). Why does no one tell me these things? No wonder season three was better again than the slightly underperforming...
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Day 208: Global Warming, DeVito and Beer
After Hollywood has successfully turned an important discussion (global warming) that required actual radical political changes, which needed to be founded upon ideological changes, into a mere fad...
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Day 209: The Bank of Common Knowledge
Read about this in a Bruce Sterling piece. This is interesting and theoretically screwy in so many ways. Interesting concept, which, however, will once again illustrate the many similarities, yet the...
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Day 210: Rambo 4 Trailer
Cerebraljetsam is experiencing cerebral overload. too many insults too many cynical jokes too much disappointment too many (frankly way too obvious, one would think) points of critique here the...
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Day 215: Sam Shepard
A very late post today, I know. I did not have time to write earlier and I don’t really have the time now (trying to finish a chapter revision that needs to be sent out tomorrow). So, here briefly an...
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Day 216: Know Your Enemy…
… is a fantastic song. However, it has nothing to do with what follows. Or does it? No, no. Not really. I am a very friendly person. That is, if you are not… ok, this may take too long I have been...
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Day 310: Cloverfield
I need to see a different post than Day 306 when I get to this page. Hence, just quickly, here some info on a new movie that’s coming out in a little less than a month, which I am quite excited about...
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Day 362: Teaching Strategies
You are an English teacher. You have to teach a class that introduces students to literary postmodernism in 75 minutes, using two short stories. The short stories have been selected, the lecture has...
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