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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe) – All-Disney Edition
How many African-American writers does Hulu have working on their series? Zero, none, zip, nada. (And just 4.8 percent of all TV writers are black.) Behind-the-camera diversity can be as important as in-front-of-the-camera. (Disney is one of the major owners … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 3, Chapter 8, Chapter 9
Tagged animation, Because I can, Bechdel Test, corporate ownership, Disney, diversity, questions, race
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How Lin-Manuel Miranda helped boost a tweet about insulin in Puerto Rico
The one thing you need to know about me as I tell this story is that I’m an insulin-dependent diabetic. My pancreas checked out several years ago and no longer does much. Which means that I have to manually control … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 12
Tagged activism, Because I can, diabetes, Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda, social media
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When Nature Puts On The Really Big Show – Total Eclipse on the Prairie
The total eclipse of the sun in Kearney, Nebraska this afternoon was absolutely stunning. You didn’t need any fancy equipment to see the images. Just look down and see the pinhole images provided by the trees. Lots of high school … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 6
Tagged Because I can, history, news, science, total eclipse
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
What’s the story behind the possible end of Snopes? Yes, it’s a true story. Sadly, it’s a typical new media battle over who will control a web site. Truly hope this ends well. How do reporters (or anyone else) authenticate … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 14, Chapter 6
Tagged Because I can, Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk, e-mail, ethics, fake news, high school journalism, movies, Questions worth asking, Snopes, streaming
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Proceeding Home
On Sunday of last week I I discovered in the parking lot of my hotel in Florence, Alabama that I had a leaky seal on one of my motorcycle fork legs with fluid seeping out. I was in the middle … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 2017 motorcycle tour, Because I can, motorcycles, National Parks Tour, Travels
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Proceed As The Way Opens
Proceed as the way opens My two sons learned to loathe that phrase as they were growing up. Conversations would go something like this: “Dad, what do I do if this doesn’t work out?” “Proceed as the way opens.” “Dad, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 2017 motorcycle tour, Because I can, motorcycle, National Parks Tour, Proceed as the way opens, travel, William Least Heat Moon
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I’m going down to Florence…
A couple of years ago my Dear Wife and I drove 350 miles or so up to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to see Rosanne Cash and her band play one of the most sublime shows either of us has ever … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 7, Motorcycling
Tagged 2017 motorcycle tour, Because I can, country music, motorcycles, National Parks Tour, Rosanne Cash
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Are ‘Contact’ and ‘Prometheus’ essentially the same movie?
I recently saw the 1997 science fiction movie Contact on streaming for the first time, nearly 20 years after its initial release. And as I watched it, I was immediately struck by how many ways it resembled director Ridley Scott’s Alien … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 8, Uncategorized
Tagged Because I can, Contact, movies, Prometheus
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
How could have better design skills eliminated Sunday’s Oscar disaster? Oddly enough, the cards read by the presenters at the Oscars only list the winner in a reasonable sized type. The name of the category is relegated to tiny type … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 5, Chapter 8, Chapter 9
Tagged Because I can, Brenda Buttner, cancer, design, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, motorcycles, Oscars 2017, Questions worth asking
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Thinking about W. H. Auden on a morning in early winter
I have been on sabbatical this semester after stepping down as the department chair and becoming a regular professor. I’ve been working on a variety of projects this fall – finishing up work on ancillaries for the Sixth Edition of … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 4
Tagged Auden, Because I can, poetry
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