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Being Mosby: The Lesson of Shelter Island
second in a series ROBIN SCHERBATZKY has been the more difficult of Ted Mosby’s friends to like long-term. Introduced in the first episode of How I Met Your Mother, Robin is the one who Ted falls for more than any … Continue reading
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A Less Immediate Life
LATELY I’VE BEEN READING the latest book by Anne Lamott. Her most recent memoir, titled Some Assembly Required, is a journal of the first year of her grandson’s life. Throughout the journal she takes time to interview her son, Sam, … Continue reading
And So, The Cruelest Month
APRIL IS THE CRUELEST MONTH, T. S. Eliot wrote at the beginning of his masterpiece, “The Waste Land.” And so here we are, this first day of April. For the poet, April was cruel for its “breeding/ Lilacs out of … Continue reading
Song of Freedom . . . and Law
MY FRIDAY MORNING started with an interesting discussion with a student about the works and thoughts of Dostoyevsky. Since I didn’t know much more than the average English major on the topic, we ended up discussing the strange relationship between … Continue reading
Shameless Promotion?
HELLO. I meant to let others know about this new site a few entries ago: the idea was that I’d let others in on this when I hit 10 posts. I didn’t want a false-start blog. It had happened to … Continue reading
Framing Device
ONE OF THE MANY SMALL JOYS of Modern Family is the introductory scene and what shot makes it into the picture frame for the beginning of title sequence. It’s rare that a show would go through the trouble of making … Continue reading
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The Hunger Games and the Importance of Story
I SAW a former student in the theater lobby in my way to see The Hunger Games. When her mother asked if I had read the books, the graduate proudly proclaimed that I was the kind of reader “who didn’t … Continue reading
Two Things I Learned On Jump Street
MORE GOES ON in the newest iteration of 21 Jump Street than car chases, drug busts, and shoot outs. The show-now-movie has at least two interesting ideas that it plays around with that struck me as well-handled after viewing. The … Continue reading
The Wrapped-Up Dead
THE SECOND SEASON of AMC’s The Walking Dead came to a conclusion this past Sunday. It was a whopper of an episode, drawing in 9 million viewers (which is impressive for TV both cable and network these days). It was … Continue reading
Spring Sprang Sprung
JUST BECAUSE you have two weeks off for spring break doesn’t mean every day feels like “spring break.” While I’ve enjoyed each day of my break so far, a good bit of each day has gone to more serious, solitary, … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 