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Generations from now, they won't call it the Internet anymore. They'll just say, "I logged on to the Jim Groom this morning.
-Joe McMahon
Everything Jim Groom touches is gold. He's like King Midas, but with the Internet.
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@jimgroom is the Billy Martin of edtech.
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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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Author Archives: Reverend
Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls
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 … Continue reading
The other Jim Groom
I just got this message on Facebook: Hi there, just wondering if you were the Director of Revenge Billy the Kid (1992)? If so, I’m an author, and would love to chat to you about your work. Kind regards. Which … Continue reading
Bigger than Life (1956)
The Media Funhouse has an excellent post that mines the YouTube archives for highlights of Nicolas Ray’s career. There are a number of his films I haven’t seen, like In a Lonely Place (1950) and Bitter Victory (1957) that I … Continue reading
Andrei Tarkovsky Talks about his favorite Directors
I love this video of Tarkovsky in his living room talking about his favorite directors. He seems so tortured and real at the same time, what a nut. I also love his analysis of Antonioni’s vision of “action” in his … Continue reading
Loss
It’s been almost three years now, and I never wrote a eulogy for my mom. Part of that is born of the simple fact that she really hasn’t died, she regularly sits at my dining room table with me drinking … Continue reading
Spider-Man 1967, Episode 17
”The Terrible Triumph of Dr. Octopus”: Spider-Man fails to prevent Dr. Octopus from stealing Dr. Smarter’s nullifier. Afer some investigation, Spider-Man tracks down Dr. Octopus, but the evil villain has a devious trap waiting for the webslinger. ”Magic Malice”: The … Continue reading
The Company Store
Image credit: L’Hibou’s “Le Wal-Mart de la rue Karl-Marx” While talking with my neighbor Kent Ippolito a few weeks ago, the conversation somehow found its way to a fascinating fact I had never heard before, namely that Wal-Mart has for … Continue reading
The bava clip show
Martin Weller will be happy to know I am officially seeking therapy after watching the bava clipshow he put together over on The Ed Techie. What can I say? I mean this video is not only a Jim Groom film … Continue reading
Hoodoo Gurus “What’s my scene?”
Say what you will hippies, but I owned their LP (was their more than one?), and upon re-watching this video I’m amazed at how prescient it is. I mean it prefigures the whole logic of that other Australian phenomenon The … Continue reading
Auto-tune the news
Over at the Play-List blog, Brad Efford linked to this crazy re-mix/auto-tuning of the news. Hysterical.