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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
AI Maddeness Films
I finally got around to making a video recap of week 13’s matchup between the NY Jets and the Chicago Bears. It was a special one. Curtis Martin passed both the single season rushing and touchdown records in the same … Continue reading
3,976
With this post, I’m 24 entries away from hitting 4,000. To satisfy my sense of symmetry, I’d need to publish another 24 posts in the next 10 days so that I land on exactly 4,000 at the moment this blog … Continue reading
Art for Art’s Sake
Sketch of Hanshir? from Harikir (1962) by Tommy There’s a superpower in art. Those who can draw, paint, write, play an instrument, sing, sculpt—creators of all stripes—seem to have access to a different plane of existence, or maybe it’s just … Continue reading
Silent Night, Deadly Night Diorama
Back in December of 2008 (almost 17 god-damned years ago!) I wrote a post on this blog, “A Very Bava Xmas”, about the 1984 holiday exploitation film Silent Night, Deadly Night. In particular, I focused on the early scene where … Continue reading
Halloween Diorama Wrap-up
It’s been over a month since the Halloween diorama went live, and I’m ready to take it down this week as preparations for a Christmas diorama begin in earnest. That makes this the shortest-lived of the three dioramas thus far. … Continue reading
Catching Up with AI Maddeness
November was a blur between Reclaim Open, travel, and work. One of the things that suffered as a result was keeping up with AI Maddeness. Running a fully automated media empire around a season of Madden 2001 is far more … Continue reading
Media Haul: Vinyl, Laserdiscs, DVDs, and more
I’m back from my final trip of the year, and when in Rome it’s hard for me not to do some media hauling. I hit Amoeba Records in LA and picked up Drain’s California Cursed, Shudder to Think’s Pony Express Record … Continue reading
Slashback Video
I’m not sure exactly what to say about this one, it was a bit like that Spider-man meme when I was like wait, that’s me? I walked into my own dream. When I first went into Slasher World it was … Continue reading
Jaws Exhibit at Academy Museum
On Sunday Mikhail took me to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures given they were running an exhibit on Jaws in honor of it’s 50th anniversary. It was pretty amazing. We originally signed up for the tour, but it was … Continue reading
Pedator: Badlands
Once you start making dioramas about films you start seeing them everywhere. Case in point, I went to the AMC multiplex The Grove in LA and what do I see as soon as I enter the lobby? A diorama to … Continue reading