I remember blogging about this way back on March 22, 2008, Before the MSM started talking about it. But just as well, it seems that Fox News is now talking about it. Seen over at HotAir.com: While the piece is a bit overly dramatic, which does appeal to those on the far right. It does paint a

here’s a group video project we did for the comm105 visual literacy class. it’s a really simple 50-second 1-shot video set to music with no ambient sound. the inspiration for the project was the documentary Lumiere & Company. Released in 1995 and created by Philippe Poulet (the only thing he’s done according to iMDb), the

  NEWS RELEASE   June 3, 2008 Contact:xSteven Hofman 301-520-1306 or 970-871-4551 press@bradleyproject.org The Bradley Project Releases its Report, “E Pluribus Unum.” Calls for National Dialogue on America’s National Identity. Report Finds that America is Facing an Identity Crisis and is in Danger of Becoming not “From Many, One” – E Pluribus Unum – But its Opposite, “From One, Many.” Sixty-Three Percent of Americans Believe our National Identity is

The Trading Ford area along the Yadkin River has been identified by the National Park Service American Battlefield Protection Program as a site at risk from rapid urban and suburban development. The park service released its “Report to Congress on the Historic Preservation of Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Sites in the United States” last

Dropping Off Body and Mind Dharma Discourse by John Daido Loori, Roshi Koans of the Way of Reality, Case 108 Featured in Mountain Record 21.1, Fall 2002 The Main Case Dogen studied with Master Rujing. One evening during the intensive summer training, in the first year of Pao-chang, 1225, Rujing shouted at a disciple, “When you study under

Here are two historically important collages by Jean (Hans) Arp. “Collage with Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance” which is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and “Untitled (Forest)”, a painted wood relief, which is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art. Both are from 1916-17. The

Over the last couple of nights, Mary and I watched a documentary on Mark Twain, directed by Ken Burns (who also brought us documentaries called Baseball, The Civil War, and Jazz). Mark Twain has been one of my favorite authors for a while - ever since I was a teenager and read The Adventures

I am extremely busy. I apologize. I have three cupcake recipes to post and some random blogs but I cannot until I finish up about 90 pages of typing. So enjoy these comics from PhD Comics. I think they sum up my career choice very nicely. I know no existence outside of this institution and my research.

  Opincar, Abe. Fried Butter: A Food Memoir. New York: Soho Press, Inc., 2003.     Abe Opincar’s Fried Butter is not the first food memoir but came 5 years before Eat, Pray, Loveand other books that heightened the status of food. While Opincar may not be writing of long lost love or soul searching as openly as other

Poetry has always been central to the spiritual life of Islam, particularly among the Sufis and other esoteric traditions of the faith. Through the ages, it has been composed in classical languages and local dialects to express love and devotion for God, and for Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Although a large body of