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I went and saw Joker last night - dutifully.  It was violent, very well made, well acted (and heavily acted), wonderfully shot, all like ...

Anticipatory plagiarism is a concept I used to struggle with - coming up with a brilliant idea only to come to realize that someone else ha...

Hello Brian, I have just listened through to the last episode of S-Town , and am just now passing by Flint, Michigan to my right on Sou...

I read back to back short stories about murder after finishing the playlist style novel, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry. (It occurs to me ...

This morning I learned that we lost a great literary and philosophical mind with the passing of Umberto Eco at 84.  I have long been a f...

A couple of years ago I was taking a real look at my social media self.  Bringing back this tag to Roman Numeral J reminds me of my rece...

I am just shy of 100 pages from the end of The Chronicles of Amber , a ten-book epic fantasy series written by Roger Zelazny, primarily in ...

As part of my “academic review” at the end of last semester, Andrew Kincaid suggested to me that I write up a series of “position papers” th...

I've now made my first ever conference presentation . And it was much more painless than i expected. Attended by only about 12 or so peo...

This moring, Brooke & i went to the Farmer's Market in Omaha's Old Market, and, after finding it painfully understocked & n...