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“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: August 2009
Fritz Lange’s M: “I can’t help what I do”
What can you say about this scene from M (1931)? That it’s Peter Lorre’s greatest moment ever. Sure. That it remains one of the most powerful moments in film wherein the audience is asked to identify with a child murdering … Continue reading
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me – “Welcome to Canada”
My blogging screeched to a halt while I was in Vancouver, British Columbia having a blast with edtech friends near and far, and my broke ass even imposed on the unbelievably gracious and warm Casa Lamb/McPhee. Worth pointing out is … Continue reading
LMS as Institutional Dark Web
Image credit: Askai Bosch’s “Series of Abandoned Webs 19” For now, the CMS landscape is a multi-institutional dark Web, an invisible, unsearchable, un-mash-up-able archipelago of hidden learning content. This is a quote from Bryan Alexander’s brilliant presentation “Social Media is … Continue reading
“Eight year olds, Dude”
What can I say about The Big Lebowski that hasn’t already been said? Now that I think about it I could probably find something, but it would seem to rob this masterpiece of its magic. Just about every scene could … Continue reading
An Obituary for a Plugin: Saying goodbye to an old friend
Update (2/25/10): Actually BDPRSS still works and we are still using it on UMW Blogs. My bad. It’s kind of funny, but I’m starting to realize that I have been so embedded within the UMW Blogs experience for the last … Continue reading
King of New York—Room Service & Leave No Witnesses
For some reason I got to thinking about Abel Ferrara’s best film King of New York (1990) this afternoon. The film beautifully frames the dirty streets of NYC, and has Laurence Fishburne playing one of the most truly menacing and … Continue reading
Raiders of the Lost Ark—Opening sequence
When talking about the opening to Sergio Leone’s Once Upon the Time in the West, I was reminded of the opening sequence that in many ways sealed my nearly thirty year love affair with film: the opening of Raiders of … Continue reading
Spider-Man 1967, Episode 18
”Fountain of Terror”: Peter discovers that Dr. Connor is missing and travels to Florida to investigate. He encounters Cliventon, and chases him along with Billy Connor to his hideout where they find the doctor. Now, they must work as a … Continue reading
The Breakfast Club—Bender in Closet scene
The late John Hughes will have no shortage of tributes, and there is a real sense amongst many of my generation that he helped define as much as chronicle what it meant to be a white, suburban middle-class teen in … Continue reading
Once Upon A Time in the West – Opening Scene
The opening scene from Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) may very well be the greatest opening scene of any film ever. And I mean ever, I can’t even think of anything remotely close, save maybe … Continue reading