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Monday, November 26th, 2007

Fear of Writing

I was being a nerd and watching videos of Derrida interviews online when I came across this short clip in which Derrida talks about his “fear of writing.” The fear he talks about seems to arise when he goes into “new territory,” which I think has something to do with the fact that much of […]

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Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Frankenstein is gettin’ Jiggy wit it

A quick follow-up on Emily’s post. There is in fact another important connection between the film, I am Legend, and our class. The film is loosely based or at least thematically similar to a novel written in 1826 by …. drum roll please….. Mary Shelley. One of my former students is now working on her […]

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Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Chelsea Clinton

Rebecca and i were researching a paper for our Rhetoric of Motherhood class and this snuck in the mix.  Chelsea Clinton’s paternity is questioned a LOT by the periodicals about bat-boys (haha), celebrity affairs/diets, and alien abductions– you know the ones.
 Link:http://www.ishipress.com/billskid.htm
-Sara B.

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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Vampires…again.

ok guys this is crazy.
i’m sure a lot of you have already heard about Will Smith’s new movie, “I am Legend”; however, I was just recently told about it and almost fainted as my friend began to describe the plot.  Allow me to quote him, “Ummm yea, its a movie about this infection that affects […]

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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

If you want a good book to read over Thanksgiving. . .

Debroah and I have talked about how the book Inkheart [and the sequal Inkspell ] relate to this class but we both keep forgeting to blog about them. If anyone is searching for something amazing to read over the break, Inkheart is a winner. The movie version is coming out next spring which is also […]

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Sunday, November 18th, 2007

“Moving Beyond the Analog Book”

Hi all!
Here is an article that I came across from Newsweek. The title is “Moving Beyond the Analog Book.” Enjoy!!!
- Amy
Here is the link: http://www.newsweek.com/id/70983

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Thursday, November 15th, 2007

BEOWULF RETURNS IN THE SYMBOLIC AGE

If ever there were a time for a poem about a single man who hangs out in the rather homo-erotic company of other warriors full time, engages in three epic battles with three opponents — a fatherless son, his husbandless-mother, and a dragon –has the history of the world engraved onto the hilt of a […]

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Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Words as bodies

This is one of my favorite poems, and when I was reading it the other day I realized all the connections between words and bodies.  -Sarah Banschbach
Meditation at Lagunitas, by Robert Hass, 1987
All the new thinking is about loss.
In this it resembles all the old thinking.
The idea, for example, that each particular erases
the luminous clarity […]

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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Fly Fusion Pen

I saw an ad on tv for this computerized pen. So i decided to post the product info…. I guess kids don’t need their dads to help with homework anymore…lol ~Lauren M
How It Works
The Pentop Computer doesn’t need a keyboard. Kids just write with the pen on the specially designed FLY Paper, which is provided […]

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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

BRAZILIAN OEDIPUS

OEDIPUS Let the storm burst, my fixed resolve still holds,
To learn my lineage, be it ne’er so low.
It may be she with all a woman’s pride
Thinks scorn of my base parentage. But I
Who rank myself as Fortune’s favorite child,
The giver of good gifts, shall not be shamed.
She is my mother and the changing MOONS
My brethren, […]

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