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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…
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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.”…
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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…
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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…