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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
Psycho Shower Scene in GIFS
After wrapping this week’s Family Pictures Podcast MBS mentioned a GIF project he did back in 2013 titled “Mother Oh God Mother.” It takes each of the 54 shots from Alfred Hitchcock’s infamous shower scene in Psycho (1960) and converts them … Continue reading
Silent Night Deadly Night Prints
I got the roughly 4′ hight x 2′ wide Silent Night, Deadly Night design for the over-sized Christmas VHS tape printed today. I am pretty excited with how good it looks. Tomorrow I get the OSB board that is roughly … Continue reading
But is it Blog Worthy?
One of the things I started thinking about as I make the final push toward 4,000 posts (this is 3,995) is the length of posts. I joked about “goosing the numbers” to reach my goal, but baked into that joke … Continue reading
Folk Wisdom from Creepshow 2
I watched the horror/comedy anthology Creepshow 2 (1987) last week. While in Portland I picked up a deluxe Arrow release with UHD and 4K discs and all sorts of extras—commentaries, ephemera, and even a comic with the missing episode “Pinfall” … Continue reading
Silent Night Deadly Night VHS Scans
I am finally turning to my Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) diorama, and the first piece was to get some good scans of the tape I have so that I can scale it up for the window and get some … Continue reading
EdTech You: Digital Learning From How to Who
Maren and I were discussing conferences for 2026, and one she brought up was the annual Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA), which is celebrating their 25th annual event. The event is taking place Wednesday the 3rd & Thursday the 4th of … Continue reading
Deconstructing Halloween
I spent an hour yesterday afternoon dismantling the Halloween diorama. This is the first one I’ve been pretty surgical about, not too many emotions. Leading up to it there was a two week burst of work, then the Halloween Haunted … Continue reading
3,990
With this post, I’m now ten away from the magic 4,000. Yes, this is absolutely a vanity run. And yes, this is also unapologetically a placeholder post, designed solely to goose the numbers. I contain multitudes.
Shane Is Fight Club in Reverse
One of the things that emerged in our discussion of Shane (1953) in episode 44 of the Family Pictures Podcast is just how explicitly the film is rooted in real labor history, specifically the Johnson County War of the late … Continue reading
When Christmas Icons Go Wrong
In the Reclaim Slack Maren Deepwell shared some seasonal modifications to the beloved Reclaim Hosting icon that ruled: Being the awesome person that he is, Tom Woodward, offered a slight revision for a darker take on the holiday.* I will … Continue reading