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Collaborative Approaches to the Digital in English Studies

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photo by Magnolia Pictures, via Indie Roundup i cannot speak of it. i am gasping for air. 

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Exigence for this post brought to you by my bi-annual attempt at wearing contact lenses. At first, I went to simply check my email. Then, I saw that only one loyal reader had stopped by kind of ... today, and then I realized how long it had been since I've written here. A-n-d ... to be honest, so much of my writing now happens in Final Cut Pro, Prezi, and other venues that enable multimodal texts

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I just finished a freakishly happymaking video "hang out" to discuss our workshop agenda ... WITH ... The Fabulous Virginia Kuhn, Elisa Kreisinger, Joyce Walker, Matthew Kim, and me!! Come on! Join us @ The New School in NYC!! Also, consult our "Hacking" page, where we'll be posting materials that may be especially useful for those of you who may be joining us. You can share media assets in

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i've been doing some work in preparation for an upcoming conference workshop. In it, we plan to generate a short film, after each of us as panelists has contributed something to the processes of production. For my part, i plan to share some improv exercises. i hope to extend the panel work so that it may become both an article and a chapter in my "book," so i was delighted to read Danah Boyd's

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this graphic, which i posted a while back, is radically improved for readability. use the text link, not the image, and enjoy!

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The new Enculturation is out! It's Video and Participatory Cultures: Writing, Rhetoric, and The Tube. Masterfully edited by Geof Carter and Sarah Arroyo, the issue contains work by Alex Reid, Ryan Skinnell, Alexandra Juhasz, Patricia Lange, Virginia Kuhn, Ryan Omizo, Justin Hodgson, Joshua Hilst, Sheri Wills, and myself.image credittweet

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this clever flow chart maps intellectual movement from design inception to typeface choice. go to original site (click image) for area-specific clickable enlarging (that is a term i made up, clearly). enjoy.@ inspiration lab via boing boing

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Mary M. Reda writes in her Chronicle article, "What's the Problem With Quiet Students? Anyone? Anyone?" that "speaking out" is a "complex negotiation" rather than simple "boredom, confessions about being unprepared, [and/or] angry litanies of alienation."

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Matthew Taylor's animated history of enlightenment and inquiry regarding 21st Century enlightenment. enjoy:

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"The implications of Warhol's move to silk-screening, and to photo silk-screening in particular, were tremendous. Traditional, manual virtuosity no longer mattered. The fact that Warhol could draw [and he could] had no bearing on his art now: how an artwork was made ceased to be a criterion of its quality. The result alone mattered: whether or not it was a striking image. Making art became a

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‎"Warhol was a master at suggesting meaning, without actually committing himself. He managed this in several ways: by choosing highly charged but indeterminate images (the dead superstar, the presidential widow, the suicide in midleap), by the many variations within a multiple portrait, which, though they invite interpretation, are in fact merely accidental and without meaning; and by the lack of

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Thomas Pynchon infected Christopher Nolan's brain with an idea. Quite a few ideas. About infiltrating dreams and offloading "new" ideas. And then there is the look, feel, and mood of the film: "There are no lights inside the cars. No light anywhere. Above him lift girders old as an iron queen, and glass somewhere far above that would let the light of day through. But it's night. He's afraid of

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proposition 1984 from bonnie lenore kyburz on Vimeo.

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... on second thought, i'm scrapping the to-do list in favor of a zone-like approach to getting it all done. summer gives me this luxury, although to be honest i often operate in this mode. i am sure that i began to write a to-do list here as the lowest common denominator version of blog posts. you have noticed that i haven't posted in a while? yeah, me too. but still, no list. what i can say is

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every time i say "hello" these days, i hear the version offered by Stephen Merchant in the opening bit to The Ricky Gervais Show. it makes saying "hello" that much more fun.this is as serious as it gets for a while. enjoy ...

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There's an ambitious title. Continuing my reading of Bergson's Matter and Memory, which I share here, in my in-process notes, I see that Bergson is after the use of "image" as a "common sense" version of our ability to conceive of matter. He asks his readers to contend with this concept, absent awareness of philosophical debates, to perceive as a mind unaware of the disputes between

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from Matter and Memory, by Henri Bergson, with and against whom Gilles Deleuze works his Cinema theories. I'm making my way through these works, and I will be writing about them here at kind of ... for a bit. To begin: "... realism and idealism both go too far, ... it is a mistake to reduce matter to the perception which we have of it, a mistake also to make of it a thing able to produce in us

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many of you saw that yesterday i was busy posting pics and raving about my new office workspace. and it IS great. but, i have to be honest and am not yet sure how i will deal with this, but ... the floor tilts a bit, and there is a nearly imperceptible (not for me!) pull to the right. and you see, the chair IS on casters, so it does want to roll, justaweelittlebit. and if i really look closely, i

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in my efforts to develop my film studies knowledge, a project that has been happening behind the scenes of my film production efforts, i have read much of Deleuze. but it wasn't until i started reading his specific Cinema books (Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, and Cinema 2: The Time-Image) that i found myself becoming more deeply invested in his concerns. i had been intrigued by Patricia Pisters

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re: upcoming 2011 panel proposals (working title = Remediation, Convergence, & the Academic Monograph OR How I Stopped Worrying the Book & Learned to Love Digital Filmmaking). i can't see a better way to ask you to consider joining my panel than to channel Slim Pickens. now then, boys,

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i'd hoped to be in a position to develop the book as part of the conditions of my employment, in a specific "set up" (i like David Lynch's quite a lot). i keep attempting to create a dreamy set up at home, but complicating this possibility is that my husband is an adjunct with a heavy teaching load, and so i end up inevitably sharing my office spaces with him, and this means piles and stacks and

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thanks for the keen idea. -- OK Go

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the march 1st launch event is coming soon. learn more.

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"I began to see myself as crippled in the use of myself [...]. My breathing was inhibited, my voice and posture were wrecked, something was seriously wrong with my imagination--it was becoming difficult actually to get ideas. How could this have happened when the state had spent so much money educating me?" -- Keith Johnstone from Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre.

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a while back, i had a lovely link to a teaching resource on the C.R.A.P. design principles as asserted by Williams and Tollett. that link is no longer active, but thankfully Presentationzen has a lovely page. i'm linking it both here, and below (under "tech, text, and design") but wanted to call attention to it in a brief post (said post also acting as a nudge to start posting again).

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Don't hate. I'm as confused as anyone. But I keep thinking that anyone who is so horribly outraged about support for Polanski might a.) see Marina Zenovich's documentary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, b.) read Robert Harris' NY Times Op Ed , "Why Arrest Roman Polanski Now?" (09/29/2009). And, although it represents a "fictional" extreme, c.) re-watch L.A. Confidential.All of this is to

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i posted a while back about my fluctuating desire to leave facebook because of my insecurities, the timesuck, the mostly surface-level discourses happening there (which has never been a secret or anything because i mean the name pretty much announces the name of the game). and whatnot.more recently, i am wondering about the extent to which dialogue can happen in fb. it's probably just not cut out

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Manohla Dargis on highlights from the 47th new york film festival.i look forward to many films this year. and but i should hate to admit it, but Coco Before Chanel excites me because, well ... an "ambitious, difficult woman, taking note of the obstacles and opportunities offered by her time, place and circumstances"! (A.O. Scott)

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it's been fun. kind of. and then, it's also not been fun. see, you make me keenly aware of how unspectacular my life can be. i mean, truly, i'm delighted for everyone, so pleased to discover the exciting things my friends are doing. but. it's always sort of happening when i enter ... this unpleasant sensation ... vibing out in your world, a sense that i am whispering into a void my pathetic hopes

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Micromedia, Design, and Teaching the Narrative BusinessPosted using ShareThis

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i realize that many of my colleagues create specific blogs for specific aims, but i am still reluctant to do so (thus, my massive subheader "thinking about representation," which in essence says, ... "i'm going to write about some stuff here"). my reluctance is related to my longstanding concern for "the personal" (even) in professional matters, and this is to say that i have spent a career

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i've missed you. and i'm sorry. yes, facebook and twitter have stolen some of your shine, but i promise to return to you soon. after all, i need you to help me refocus on projects that benefit from more reflection than sound bites can help to generate and sustain (although it's true, yes, i've always enjoyed a short story or an abstract painting more than the weighty tome or intricate realist

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nothing here on the performance aspects of twitter. the video elides the possibility of fantasy, humor, the real agent-enacted hopes of/for career/dating/etc. forms of networking. so it essentially presumes that tweets tell what people are actually doing rather than what they wish to articulate as the nature of their activities/lives/selves. perhaps a response video is in order? still, for the

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your sweat is schkeeving me out. use the designated indoor track. come on.professorily civilized and curmudgeonly yours,dr. bonnie kyburz

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so my friend, filmmaker Andy Blubaugh, is blogging about what is sure to be his fabulous new feature film. i have always loved Andy's style and method. i especially love the personal nature of Andy's films and their ability to move us both with and also beyond Andy. essentially, i like how Andy's films motivate us to think more complexly about certain, deeply human and (that is to say)

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so while i have been working with computers in the teaching of writing for something like forever (since 1992, let's say), i have not written much about that work, nor have i attended the Computers and Writing Conference. i almost attended when the conference was in Detroit but didn't. travel budgets being what they were, i couldn't justify it. now, as i continue to emerge as ... eh, let's not

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some of my speculation will seem self-defeating, but i assure you that i am in a very fine and decent mood, contemplating my reality as opposed to striving in ways that (often) disappoint and frustrate. even within my self-doubt*, however, i feel renewed in my efforts, however limited and/or limiting or otherwise less-than-ideally grandiose and appropriate to the academic's sense of largesse.

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Recently, i went to Atlanta to say "good bye" to an old friend, Frank Mullen (aka "Frank-o"), my former brother-in-law and father of my nephew/godson, Kyle. Frank loved his life and enjoyed it like no one I know. Every bite of toast, every sip of Coke, every band gig, or chat with a friend was filled with Frank's desire for laughter and delight, and he always found it. What an awesome friend. In

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i hate capital letters. i can't fully explain it. but as a new project in working conventions, i'm converting references (in links, @ right) so that names and titles are properly capitalized. this, as part of my ongoing my efforts to figure out what is wrong with me (ha!) and in my attempt to fix myself (HA!). i hope this helps. and, until you are "converted," please be patient.this is painful. i

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Would you be willing to send me images of your workspace? home, campus, wherever? i'd like to create a presentation involving these images, inspired by a recent FB comment via Trish Harris re: her office poster of Jim Jarmusch's film Coffee and Cigarettes. Trish's comment reanimated an interest i'd let fade and motivated me to think about the extent to which our workspaces (workspaces as images -

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but merely "saved now." you are so curious.

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so looking forward to seeing Drew Barrymore take on this role in tomorrow night's HBO production of Grey Gardens. as you may recall, i wept in honorific self-flagellation for my inner Little Edie at Christine Ebersole's performance of the same role on Broadway when i was in NYC in 2007. here (from the 2007 Tony Awards  -- she won hers): i've seen clips, and Drew seems remarkably good, as well.

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it's been a while. i've been busy. preparation for CCCC's was monstrous in the midst of my new 4 course lifestyle, other conference matters, family issues, life, and etc., etc. but so now i'm looking ahead to the summer months. i would love to make this the year of my Big Trip to France (ala my heartbreakingly gorgeous Margo Martindale in Alexander Payne's amazing "14ème Arrondissement" in Paris

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i have been socially awkward for most of my life. my parents* started me in 1st grade one year early, believing that they'd seen some genius in me or that some groovy 1960's theory on education held some actual merit.as it turned out, i was paranoid from day one: it was clear that relationships had been formed. earlier. pre-dating my entrance. nevertheless, i made my mark; i was "notable" for a

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some pics from our trip to San Francisco for CCCC's. to better read the text, click on the images and go watch the slideshow in Picasa (choose "slideshow" to get the more visually pleasing and easier-on-the-eyes black frame; you can also slow down the rate of movement from frame to frame).

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i am in between blogs (altho blogs are, i hear, passe ... still). so but i thought i'd share some reflection on my documentary filmmaking process over at maybe. here you go.

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emboldened to think aloud along these lines by both Andy Blubaugh's fabulous short film, "Hello, Thanks" (2005; info here, @ Andy's filmography), and Ondi Timoner's 2009 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary, We Live in Public, i offer:"tenured MWF (R/C) seeking ... "ha. (?). i'm thinking that maybe the day will soon come when we use our blogs or other webspaces to formally advertise our

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yes, it's vanity, but i like to know. my old counter was up to around 3000, and the one prior to that was even higher. but after discovering that it was counting my own visits (i revise a lot and read other blogs through this portal), well ... so but we're back to the beginning, which is rarely a very bad thing.

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it's simple, maybe even too simple (simplistic), but i also find value in Jason's post. i don't want to elaborate but simply to point to it.

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along with We Live in Public, my favorite Sundance 2009 film:

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kindly stop hijacking Obama's volunteerism rhetoric as a way of getting us to do more for less (or nothing). i'm just sayin' ...

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i was deeply moved by the amazing documentary The End of the Line. see it. visit the website. follow the campaign link to reclaim your piece of the ocean. and forgive me if i suddenly seem to have found my activism and act a little nutty in my enthusiasm ...

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mylittlefilm. i wrote about it, its evolution and its potential "meanings," at maybe (early 2007 entries). mostly trying to explore affective experience of place(s) in the context of my evolving work with textuality that happens off-the-page.some of you saw this at PSU. i later submitted it as my "manifesto" for that Kairos issue, but it didn't get accepted (although a different short film did).

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i want to write something witty and fresh, a nod to a new year ... and i will. until then, know that both the book and the doc have happily found greater clarity. the process of preparing to tell other people about one's work, maybe (as in, say, a sabbatical report, for one ...)for now, i'll have to be brief. so ... although it's still surveying historical discourses, the book is about much more

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via Anne Thompson (Variety), Mark Gill's LA Film Festival address on the proliferation of filmmaking potential, market news, and a shared film-community sense that "The Sky is Falling." Read to the end for Gill's hopeful minimalist and pragmatic view of the potential we might salvage from "the carnage."

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via hodgman (aka "expert"): "DECEMBER 22, 1992, NEW YORK: Anthony Robbins publishes the bestselling success manual Awaken the Giant Within, in which he encourages personal and spiritual growth via guided meditation, deep-breathing techniques, firewalking and, most controversially, the ritualistic “molting” of one’s human skin to reveal the gigantic Anthony Robbins clone that lives inside all of

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a comment posted somewhere in response to the "breaking news" story about a bigfoot capture. my nomination for best comment of 2008: "A dead bear, a gorilla mask, and for who knows why, some intestines laid on top. awesome." i would post the picture of the "captured" bigfoot, but even in its sad inauthenticity, it's too horrible.

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you didn't even know it existed?me neither! but you can find it here. you're welcome.

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@ Wired, Clive Thompson argues that we need more (and better) torture in video games as a way of inspiring public debate on torture more generally, that is, beyond the borders of gaming.

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the film guide is here. see what's playing at SFF 2009. and here is the calendar version of the film guide featuring what's screening at our venue ("our" being Mike and i, who, along with Kathleen Broyles, comprise the Theater Management team at the Sundance Screening Room). scroll to the bottom and use "day/date" menu at top and "next" button to move through the days/screening times.

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from The New York Times' Michael Cieply, Sundance Film Festival Director Geoffrey Gilmore explains options for festivalgoers who plan to avoid screenings at Park City's Holiday Theater (run by Cinemark). Gilmore is responding to claims that some would-be festivalgoers plan to "boycott" the festival (or at least the 4 out of 14 total SFF Cinemark venues) because of the Cinemark CEO's donation to

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for my documentary on M Dot Strange. learn more at my CCCC's session, where i will screen what i have completed by that time. for now, enjoy a brief teaser -- really, a reassemblage of stuff that M has released on YouTube, stuff i'm trying to employ as a way of telling M's story and stories of self-distribution and 21st Century literacies and whatnot.so but enjoy:

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Robert Redford has been blogging at The Huffington Post and last night appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show to talk about "quiet" legislation that would open up land in Southern Utah, in and around many National Parks, such as one of my favorites, Arches. i hadn't known much about the move, which Redford calls "cynical." i wouldn't go with "cynical," myself. "devious," to be sure. nevertheless.

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@ however fallible, i see that someone 's been reading about Philipe Petit, which reminds me to once again promote the amazing documentary, Man on Wire, which is currently on a few shortlists for Academy Award contention (so deserving). i'm secure in thinking that all i need do is share this clip (also linked at hf):

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when i watch PSH, i think that i have no business believing that i can or ever will act. that's a pretty dark assessment and it's a lot of negativity to associate with a person i admire, but there you go. "sublime," he is, as an actor.i am not a serious fan of martial arts films, and war sagas often leave me depressed and at the same time empty, abmivalent. but Wong Kar Wai makes such

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GM says its "plug in" car will be "ready" in 2 years. GM, the automaker who produced a successful electric car in the 1990s, the same automaker who, according to Chris Paine, "killed" the electric car.from a New York Times article by Micheline Maynard, we don't hear much about GM's earlier electric car (and its untimely "death"), except for this:G.M. reportedly spent about $1 billion in the 1990s

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so the opening night film is announced, and it features some of my favorite actors. i wish i could go to the ball, but i work a theater gig all day, every day, during the festival. so, my second wish is that Philip Seymour Hoffman decides to visit our theater instead of making exclusive appearances with Mary and Max. i can't see why he wouldn't. i mean, come on.

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Sundance is not the enemy of gay people (watch the documentary Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema for evidence). and well obviously Prop 8 didn't pass because of Sundance.yes, Sundance is in Utah. and yes, the LDS (Mormon) Church, which is centrally located in Utah, does seem to have been quite persuasive in the California vote for Proposition 8. but just as sweeping and derogatory claims about

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in case you're following my progress on the documentary . . .

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i'm flattered that you wrote me to ask about possible grad schools where you can do supercool work like the work you read about in those 2 articles by Geoff Sirc. i too felt a near-religious high when first i encountered Sirc, so i can relate. but perhaps, in your euphoria and guided by your supercool mentor who encouraged you to write me, you presumed an intimacy between us that doesn't exist.

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beyond the obvious rhetorical lessons -- he takes us to schoolon pathos and delivery -- i love the passion he brings to thematter of gay marriage and the passing of Proposition 8.

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every now and then i'll get clear on the powerful relationships between past and present, memory and inclination. recently, i found myself inexplicably singing the tune to the "Lite Brite" commercial. sure, it falls into the category of Things I Cannot Love ... this, by virtue of having gone with the ostensibly "catchier" nontraditional spelling that wants to rise to the level of "skillful

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my sister says it makes her brain hurt, but i like it for its comprehensive representation-value. it's a document containing several models of a different kind of electoral map. see the full document via the link, but to get a sense of what you'll find, the map above "represent[s] the effects of the electoral college by scaling the sizes of states to be proportional to their number of electoral

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... over Obama's win, but also over the Grant Park crowd's reaction to Obama's nod to McCain. that is to say, thank God they didn't go by way of the McCain crowd when John applauded Obama. i get it. you lost. but classy it up. jeez. you're at the Biltmore. and, um, to the frat boy who shouted over McCain, "Sarah Palin, 2012!" ... um, really?[deleted fashion critique in favor of joy and relief]

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stop suggesting that women who wear glasses want to be (like) Sarah Palin. that's just stupid.

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just got word that our projectionist extraordinaire, Brad Jones, will not be with us for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. of course, i hope that this is because he has some fabulous filmmaking and/or editing job that's gotten in the way of his routine presence at the festival as our extremely talented as resourceful projectionist.one year, Brad and i had to literally kneel down on the floor and

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i'm thinking of using Don Draper's Guide to Picking Up Women as a general template for reshaping my professional ethos. because the academy needs more diva-type behavior (hear that "ping" noise as you visualize me winking directly at camera).

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sabbatical? fabulous. but i often feel guilty for not writing every day, for not having a more appreciable mass of the book done. and this is odd because it goes against what i have come to discover about my process; it is time-greedy, which is to say that it is organic and that it involves long stretches of not writing, which is not to say that i am not still sort of writing in my mind, or

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metro from bonnie lenore kyburz on Vimeo. a cell phone film i made in DC on New Years Day (thus, the post-apocalyptic feeling of no bodies). i've just joined vimeo and am working it out. i realize the need to enlarge the frame, so if you really want watch this now, i'd go full screen. i'll continue to use this little film to experiment with sizing things up in the frame. i'm still

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