Joel Clements

Writer, Performer

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  • Like A Moth To…: A) A Bulb B) A Flame C) A Window

    Just finishing up a PhD course in rhetoric this week.  I have such a love-hate relationship with academia.  So many terrible experiences, so few good ones.  So many instances where I’ve felt like I was jamming the square peg into the round hole. It’s been a good class, but I can’t help but wonder if…

    joelkclements

    August 10, 2010
    Autobiographical
  • Have your answers ready!

    It covers the whole “what kind of music do you like,” which is itself, let’s face it, a total waste of a question. “Oh, lots of different kinds.” Yawn. Impossible to really answer, no one learns anything. The only way that question would tell you anything is if the respondent said something like, “Bruce Springsteen.”…

    joelkclements

    August 9, 2010
    Culture, Humor, Music
  • Inception’s Ambiguity

    Everyone keeps talking about the ambiguous ending of Inception.  Funny, because I felt like the ending was the only non-ambiguous part of the film.  Are people making it ambiguous out of a hope for a happy ending? Or am I just missing something? For Michele and me, the really ambiguous part was the beginning. There…

    joelkclements

    August 5, 2010
    Film Analysis
  • In Medias Res

    So, there have been various journals, blogs, etc. prior to this, but rather than try and create a sense of catch-up, I’m just going to keep moving forward, see if it ever matters…

    joelkclements

    August 5, 2010
    Uncategorized
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