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-Antonella Dalla Torre
“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Spider-Man 1967, Episode 16
”The Vulture’s Prey”: The Vulture abducts J. Jonah Jameson and ties him dangerously close to a large pendulum in order to lure Spider-Man in the open. Now, Spider-Man must risk his life to save the one man set on destroying … Continue reading
Zombies and Pirates: Let’s begin
Gratuitous audio: Download Sell My Soul When I started talking about the Zombies and Pirates course I was thinking along the lines of a syllabus, a series of texts, a schedule, and a unifying theme. In some ways a traditional … Continue reading
List of things to fix in UMW Blogs since upgrade to WPMu 2.8.1
Gratuitous image for Joss Winn, cause I love web fat! Image credit: “Gratuitous pussy shot” by bl1nk Issue with überadmin not being able to login into users’ blogs. The user blog still recognized me as a siteadmin and would show … Continue reading
A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter
Of all the TV I consumed as a young child (and there was a lot of it) this clip from Sesame Street may very well be the most pervasive in my mind still to this day. I remember the whole … Continue reading
Theme Previews borking in WPMu 2.7.1
The last few days I have been doing the arduous work of making sure the BuddyPress admin bar and D’Arcy’s Akismet Credit Inserter plugin work cleanly with all the themes on UMW Blogs. It’s painstaking work, but pretty important if … Continue reading
Flannery O’Connor on Southern literature and the grostesque
I started watching John Huston’s adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood (1979) for the first time, and I actually stopped half-way through. And while I am a huge fan of Harry Dean Stanton, and I dug Brad Dourif in this … Continue reading
Spider-man 1967, Episode 15
”The Spider and the Fly’‘: A mysterious character called the Human Fly is toying with Spider-Man by leading him away from a site and then stealing jewelry at the site. Spider-Man must outsmart the Human Fly to get to the … Continue reading
The Letter
The brick film by James Maduzia titled The Letter (2003) is a masterpiece. And I while I don’t really know much about what I’m sure is a rich, underground history of Lego-inspired films, I have to believe that this one … Continue reading
Ace in the Hole
The Media Funhouse just posted about the unbelievable classic film treasures that enjoy a short, but rich life on YouTube (kinda like the cicada in August). And the two collections he links to are filled with Western and Film Noir … Continue reading
Is UMW Blogs really open?
Image credit: Tambako the Jaguar’s “Croccodile with open mouth” Something struck me this morning as I was reading the comments from Mike Caulfield, Jared Stein, and Jim Doran on Brad Efford’s The Play-List blog. Here are three people who are … Continue reading