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The Reactive Consequence of Force: Whiplash as Cultural Critique

in America Movie Reviews on July 20, 2015 July 20, 2015

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The Dystopian Perfection of Whiplash

We watched Whiplash last night. By all accounts it was an intense experience. Nerve-wracking to say the least. Perhaps triumphant in the end, but I don’t think so. Have you seen it? If not, in brief, a boy (19) who is a drummer and aspiring to be “one of the greats” is at the most prestigious music school in the country and as the movie…

Assume Forever-War: Thoughts After Viewing Wounds of Waziristan

in Movie Reviews Politics War on July 18, 2015 September 6, 2015

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It Plays You: Mingus on Electric Instruments

in Arts Music Technology on July 10, 2015 July 10, 2015

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Break It Up But Don’t Sell It Off

in Education Society/Culture on July 3, 2015 July 3, 2015

It’s quite simple to say there was, at one point in England’s history, shared or common land upon which groups of people subsisted and the method by which they managed these lands allowed for a common subsistence that protected the future “health” of that land. That is, it was a kind of holistic practice that favored no individual over the group, that favored no resource…

UPDATE! Coming Up on Interchange: “Later also headache”

in Briefs Listening Local News/Events on June 15, 2015 June 15, 2015

The title of this post comes from Naomi Baron’s Words Onscreen which will serve as the basis of an upcoming Interchange program. “Later also headache” was a description given by a German respondent as to a negative aspect of “reading onscreen.” Here’s a look at the schedule for the next month or so, but you can’t really hold me to any of this…life is a…

Salt of the Earth

in Globalism Movie Reviews on June 7, 2015 June 8, 2015

One of the benefits of living in Bloomington is that the University has built a superb, state of the art, movie theater. Jon Vickers is the founding director of the IU Cinema and he deserves high praise for his work here. Saturday we went with friends to see The Salt of the Earth. The Salt of the Earth is a documentary by Wim Wenders (Wings…

Psychic Distress in Education

in Education Teaching on June 1, 2015 June 1, 2015

The sheer JOY of talking about something you love described by Donald Hall (and called “teaching”) in the essay “Coffee with Robert Graves.” (And I’ll admit that this is what has drawn me to the radio and interviewing authors and experts.) Everyone who loves teaching has the same experience: Someone asks a question; it’s something you never thought of, but the moment you hear the…

Reading For Clams

in Audio Recording on May 29, 2015 May 29, 2015

I like to read and write and talk about reading and writing. Anyone who knows me knows this already, duh. I read things on the radio occasionally and folks seem to like what I do. One favorite of mine is a longish poem by Ford Madox Hueffer [author of Parade’s End as Ford Madox Ford] called “On Heaven.” It was recorded for this episode of…

What Else Was There?

in Briefs poetry on May 28, 2015 May 28, 2015

From Donald Hall’s Essays After Eighty, “A Yeti in the District.” The next day I got back to writing. What else was there? Well, there was anticlimax. When Linda and I returned to my house, we found a stack of five Concord Monitors, the local paper, delivered in kindness by the morning deliverer. Top of the first page was a photograph of the President looming…