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And Just Like That
And Just Like That And Just Like That the gals from Sex And The City have turned into The Golden Girls! Given all the differences between being 55 in 1985 and being 55 in 2022, perhaps we should call Carrie, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2020s, 50s, Actress, Age, Aging Process, And Just Like That, Appartments, behavior, Blanche, Botox, Carrie, Charlotte, Children, Dating, Doroth, Dyed Hair, Empty Nest, Fashion, Feminity, Fillers, Glasses, Grown Children, Guys, Hair, Heels, Independent, Life Doesn't End, Lives, Marriage, Men, Miranda, Motherhood, Mothers, Old, Older Than 25, Original, Pretty, reboot, Representation, Revolutionary, Roommates, Rose, Sad, Sadness, Sex, Sex and the City, society, Sophia, Teenagers, Television, The Golden Girls, Times We Live In, White Hair, Widow, Widowed, Widower, Work Done, Wrinkles
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The Age of American Unreason
The Age of American Unreason By Susan Jacoby, 2009 Jacoby writes about anti-intellectualism in America. She was inspired by the book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter, which was published in 1963. Jacoby points out that more than half … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Pedagogy, Politics/Economics, Religion, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 1800s, 1960s, Alan Bloom, America, Ann Coulter, Anti-Intellectual, Benjamin Franklin, Bible, Book of the Month Club, Bush, Campus Crusades, Cheap Books, Christianity, Clinton, College, Common Sense, Communisim, Communist, Cristina Hoff Summer, Culture, Debate, Democrat, Don Imus, Dumbed Down, English Language, Founding Fathers, Government, Guilded Age, High Brow, Internet, Junk Media, Junk Science, Learning, Lectures, Left Wing, liberal, Literacy, Low Brow, Middle Brow, Nixon, Patriotic, Pop Culture, President, Protests, Publishers, Reason, Regan, Republican, Richard Dawkins, Richard Hofstadter, right wing, Russia, Science Versus Religion, Seperation of Church and State, Socialism, Socialist, Soviet Union, Television, The Closing of the American Mind, The Constitution, The Rights of Man, The Supreme Court, Thomas Paine, United States, Unpatriotic, Unreason, Vietnam War, Working Class
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Tragicomics
Tragicomics Comic books were originally supposed to have a humorous, but today the content is often dark and tragic. Perhaps a better term for comics would be Tragicomics. If a play can be considered a Tragicomedy, then why couldn’t comic … Continue reading
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Tagged 1933, 1964, 1970s, 1980s, 2016, Agent Carter, Agents of Shield, Alan Moore, Batman, Black Widow, Captian America, Cartoons, Comedy, Comic Book Nerds, Comic Books, Computer Geeks, Dark, DC Legends of Tomorrow, Doctor Strange, Geeks, Gotham, Graphic Novel, Hawkeye, Heroes, Humor, Iron Man, Jessica Jones, Loki, Looking out for the little guy, Movies, Popular Culture, Spiderman, Stan Lee, Super Heroes, Supergirl, Superheroes, Superman, Television, The Avengers, The Flash, The Green Arrow, The Incredible Hulk, The Walking Dead, Thor, Today, Tragedy, Tragicomedy, Tragicomic, Watchmen, Westerns, Wonder Woman
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2016 Television
February 29, 2016 Television The Walking Dead has returned from its mid-season. It seemed that people either loved it or hated it. Though they some inconsistencies, like them starting out walking during the day and seemingly not getting very far … Continue reading
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Tagged 2 Broke Girls, ABC, ABC Family, Abraham, Adalind, adaptaion, Alien DNA, Aliens, AMC, Angels, Arrow, Arthur C Clarke, Blow Up, Carl, Carlton Cuse, Carol, Caroline Channing, Cassandra Clare, CBS, Childhood's End, City of Bones, Clary, Collaborator, Colonization, Colony, Comic book, Daryl, DC Legends of Tomorrow, Demons, DNA, Drama, Dystopian, Einstein, Elementary, Elfstones of Shannara, Elves, Experiment, Fox, FreeForm, Future, Glen, Good, Grimm, Human, illness, iZombie, Jessie, Jesus, Josh Holloway, Kate Bowman, Lizard, Lost, Maggie, Max Black, Michonne, Middle Ages, Miller, Mom, Movie, MTV, Mulder, Myth, Mythbusters, Mythological Past, Nazis, Negan, Nick, reboot, Resistance, Rick, Ron, RPG, Sam, Sarah Wayne Callies, Science Fiction, Scully, Set on Fire, Shadowhunters, Sick, Television, Terrorist Plot, Terry Brooks, The Blacklist., The Flash, The Lord of the Rings, The Mortal Instruments, The Shannara Chronicles, The Walking Dead, The X-Files, Twist, USA, Weak, Were-Monster, Will Bowman, WWII, zombies
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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
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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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Fantasy Favorites
Fantasy Favorites Growing up there were two fantasy movies that I watched over and over again: The Hobbit and The Last Unicorn. Both animated films that were produced by Rankin and Bass. The Hobbit aired on TV in 1977, while … Continue reading
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Tagged Animated, Cari Gilkison, Fantasy, Favorites, J.R.R. Tolkien, King Lear, Live Action, Peter Jackson, Peter S Beagle, Rainbows, Rankin and Bass, regret, Robin Hood, Saturday and Sunday Afternoon, Television, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Hobbit, The Last Unicorn, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, The Two Towers, Whitney School
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