I’ve been burning through books during my vacation, which I’m finding a welcome alternative when I kinda unplug—although I’m not really unplugged, just kinda—and I am in the middle of Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls which is absolutely hysterical.
The biographical details behind the writing of the book is insane, and I recommend you click the [...]
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I’m probably late to this development, but I just read over the at the DUKE CIT blog that you can embed select works from the Google Books collection right into a blog post or webpage. How wild! So, I asked myself the question, what book would I embed in the bava? And I thought and [...]
I started reading James Ellroy’s Destination: Morgue! (2004) this weekend, and I really can’t imagine a better author to lift your spirits when you are feeling down I actually started this book of stories from the end, and then worked my way back to the beginning. Don’t ask me why, I just was [...]
Wow, I sat down for a good two hours this afternoon while the chilluns were asleep and made my way through the first part of Marshall McLuhan’s The Medium is the Massage, and I have to say that just about everything folks have been saying about the changing nature of the web and its impact [...]
On a recent post about Clash of the Titans, Andy Best made a comment I’ve been coming back to over and over again since. The comment was the following:
And by the way, Jim, keep on plugging D&D, that game was solely responsible for getting me to read and develop in the face of school being [...]
The Glass Bees
Published by May 25th, 2008 in Uncategorized, books and insructional technology. 104 CommentsWith my no-internet, hippie-like vacation to Montauk behind me now, I can return to the bava and continue the excruciating futility that is my life online. I enjoyed the time away because I was able to do something I hadn’t done in too long, i.e., read a few books that have nothing to do with [...]
Stephen King’s “The Mist”
Published by October 16th, 2007 in YouTube, books, film, film noir and movies. 3 CommentsThrough the latest Fangoria on the stands I discovered that Stephen King’s short story/novella “The Mist” has been made into a film, and is currently in post-production and should be out in theaters November 21st, 2007.
The trailer is a bit underwhelming when I think about just how powerful this story was for me [...]
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