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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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Category Archives: movies
Moving Image Source
A couple of months back I happened upon the American Museum of the Moving Image’s Moving Image Source, which is an online publication featuring articles about film, television, video games, actors, and more. The posts are written by critics and … Continue reading
A Monstrous Education
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 … Continue reading
Course Mangement Systems as the Gentrification of EdTech
Image thanks to Lulu Vision Here at UMW we have been going through a CMS Review. It has been a pretty interesting project, and while I only tangentially involved, I have been following the basic rhetorical thrust of the sales … Continue reading
Prom Night (1980)
Last night I saw a coming attraction for the re-make of Prom Night (2008), which seemed so shiny and new compared to the original. In fact, while watching the trailer I found it to be a sign of the times … Continue reading
Formative 10: Clash of the Titans & the Cinema of Attractions
When talking about films I saw as a pre-pubescent adolescent, I think one of the most important would have to be Ray Harryhausen’s Clash of the Titans (1981). Now technically, keeping inline with the logic of discussing film, I should … Continue reading
Bishop of Battle (1983)
I have been thinking about certain movies from the 80s that kind of represent this moment in time, regardless of whether they are good or bad. And while movies are, for the most part, dependent on narrative, they also have … Continue reading
What religion you profess, preacher?
Fifteen seconds into this clip comes one of my favorite lines from one of the best films of the last century, Night of the Hunter (1955). The other eight and half minutes is just a bonus 🙂 BEN HARPER: “What … Continue reading
At Close Range: Daddy, Daddy, give me something
One from the archives for all you fathers out there today. A scene taken from the 1986 classic At Close Range, starring the great Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, and the sorely missed Chris Penn (his death in 2006 hit me … Continue reading
Formative 10: The Warriors
I had the great pleasure of re-watching one of my favorite films of all time recently with Shannon during our lunch hour. We saw the The Ultimate Director’s Cut version of The Warriors (1979) released in 2005, which I had … Continue reading
Preaching teetotaler from opening scene of The Wild Bunch
Here is a great scene featuring a preaching teetotaler (Reverend Wainscott) from Sam Peckinpah’s brilliant The Wild Bunch —definitely in my top five, maybe top three films of all time. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/OcRUgwCiy9A” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Man I love the … Continue reading