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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Goblins
January 6, 2014 Goblins Goblins have gained entry into my week—first, through the Dean Koontz 1987 novel Twilight Eyes and then through Kate Locke’s series The Immortal Empire. What are Goblins exactly? They are little creatures related to Brownies and … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Pedagogy
Tagged Brownies, Dean Koontz, Elves, Gnomes, Goblins, God Save The Queen, Halfie, J.R.R. Tolkien, Kady Cross, Kate Lock, Long Live The Queen, Mordor, Orc, Orcenshield, Pennsylvania, Scottish, The Lord of the Rings, The Queen Is Dead, Twilight Eyes, Werewolves, Xandra Varden, Yorktown
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The Fellowship of the Ring
The Fellowship of The Ring I re- read The Fellowship of the Ring. I felt almost as if I had slipped back to Middle Earth, where magic was still alive and common place. Middle Earth, I realized, was Tolkien’s way … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Lost
Tagged Aragorn, Banding Together, Battle, Corruption, Dark Age, darkness, Dwarves, Elves, Englightened Beings, Fantasy, Fear, Fiction, Fight, Frued, Good Storytelling, Greed, History, Hobits, Humankind, Humans, Ignorance, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jung, mankind, Men, Middle Earth, Movies, Mythology, Nature, Poverty, Power, Strider, The Fellowship of the Ring, War, Western World
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The Road
June 25, 2014 The Road “Light comes slowly, too slowly, as I stumble into your sights. I am yours, you’re mine. Have you lost your picture of the road through the trees? Misplaced the list of rivers and place names … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Poetry
Tagged 2006, 2007, A Dangerous Method, Cataclysmic, Comfort, Cormac McCarthy, Earth, Frued, Germany, Good, Holocaust, Jung, Library, Light comes slowly too slowly, Linger, Misplaced the list of rivers and place names, Nazis, Poetry, Post-Apocalyptic, Post-Apocolyptic, Sad, SS, The Road, Viggo Mortensen, WWI
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Gone
May 14, 2014 Gone Gone Baby Gone is the title of a novel by Dennis Lehane and a movie based on the book, which is directed by Ben Affleck. The book came out in 1998—the movie not until 2007. I … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Science/Philosophy
Tagged Abuse, Amanda, Amy, Baby, Ben Affleck, Breaking the Law, Casey Affleck, Children, Dennis Lehane, Dilemma, Gillian Flynn, Gone Baby Gone, Greater Good, Law, Lizzie Kaplan, Missing, Motherhood, Neglect, Nick, Patrick Kenzie, Pregnant, Protect, Save the Date, Wedding Anniversary
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Glamorous Vs Gritty
Glamorous Vs Gritty Sex and the City aired on HBO from 1998 to 2004. Since I didn’t have HBO except for a brief few months in 2003, I did not get hooked on the series. I heard about … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged 1960s, 1980s, Apples and Oranges, Brooklyn, Career, Carrie Bradshaw, Cosmo, Entitlement, entrepreneurial spirit, Fashion, Generation Me, Generation X, Generation Y, Girls, Glamourous, Gritty, Hannah, HBO, idealistic, Jean Twenge, Job, Judgmental, Late 20, Late 30s, LGBT Community, Lost, Love Life, Luxury, Manhattan, Midwestern Girl, Millennials, Motherhood, Paris, Russian Lover, Sex and the City, Snapshot, Successful, Wealthy, Whiny
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The Evolution of Television
The Evolution of Television The first TV I remember owning was a small black and white set. We didn’t get a color set until the mid-80s. At first we got just the basic 12 channels at the time, and it … Continue reading
Posted in Event, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged 00s, 10s, 12 Episodes, 2 Broke Girls, 24, 24 Episodes, 3-2-1-Contact, 80s, 90s, A&E, ABC, Adelphia, Alias, AMC, American Idol, aturday Morning Cartoons, Big Brother, Binge Watch, Borgias, Captain Kangaroo., Cartoon Network, Castle, CBS, Comcast, Dallas, Designing Women, Digital Antennae, Digital Cable, DVDs, Edgy, Epics, ER, Falcon Crest, Family Ties, FCC, Fox, Game of Thrones, Girls, Grey's Anatomy, Grimm, Growing Pains, HBO, He-Man, Hispanic, Hulu, Kate and Ally, Kitchen Nightmare, Lassie, Leave It To Beaver, Lost, Mad Men, Melrose Place, Mid-Season Replacement, Mike and Molly, Million Dollar Budgets, Modern Family, Mom, Mr. Ed, Murphy Brown a, NBC, Netflix, Ohio, Once Upon A Time, Person of Interest, Pg, PG-13, Quality TV, Quantum Leap, Rabbit Ears, Rainbow Rollercoaster, Rated R, Re-Runs, Reality Show, Road Rules, Romper Room, Scandal, Seasons, Sesame Street, Sex in the City, Shark Tank, She-ra, Shellby, Showtime, Sons of Anarchy, Spanish, Survivor, Television, The Blacklist., The Disney Network, The Donna Read Show, The Electric Company, The Goldberg’s, The Golden Girls, The Little Prince, The Middle, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, The Tudors, The Walking Dead, The World of David the Gnome, Time Warner Cable, TiVo, Transformers, Turkey TV, TV, Univision, UPN, WB, You Can't Do That on Television
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