Jan 28 2005
I had a friend in art school in Savannah who was always overflowing with good story ideas and concepts. At one point he proposed a patriotic super-hero along the lines of Captain America. I can’t remember the character’s name, but supposedly he gained his superpowers after being bitten by a radioactive flag. Here’s our pal …
Jan 27 2005
Harvard president pays high price for his hypothesis Why is it that conservative columnists are always such superior writers compared to their counterparts on the left? I find that generally I disagree with their opinions more often than I agree, but the mastery of language and tone exhibited by someone like George Will makes his …
Jan 26 2005
CNN.com – Two dead, two hurt in Jeep plant shooting – Jan 27, 2005 “Police also said he had strapped a stuffed animal to the back of his neck.” Whaaa?!
Jan 24 2005
Student Work – Historical Figures / page1.tif I stumbled on this doing some research for my “Comics for Teens” class that I teach on Tuesday nights. This student work is a comics biography from one of Tom Hart’s classes in NYC. I had seen this published in an SPX anthology a few years back and …
Jan 24 2005
I went to the movies this weekend an saw the much-lauded Sideways. The film itself was mildly amusing in a trite NPR-esque way, but what really struck me were the previews. Thankfully there were only three, but as a group they exhibited a stunning lack of originality. Two of the three were of the “wacky …
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