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Back to the Island: All of This Matters
As I quickly put together the previous post on the origins of LOST, I remembered that I never quite finished my look back at the show while watching it again last year. In fact, I think I got up to … Continue reading
A Last Word on the First Words of LOST
In a bit I’m going to ask you to click a link, get some comfort food to sip or snack on, and then sit back for a wonderfully interesting read on the “secret origins” of LOST. For many, the origins … Continue reading
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The Tribe is Us
When Tom McCarthy’s essay about “fiction in the age of data saturation” posted earlier this month on The Guardian website, a number of writers picked up on the image of James Joyce working for Google: If there is an individual … Continue reading
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Goodbye, Glee
Somewhere in the transition between the first and second hour of Glee‘s two-hour finale I had a C. S. Lewis thought, a thought that was confirmed when the show’s second hour started with Will Schuester’s high school glee club coach … Continue reading
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Barry Allen: Time Lord
This week’s episode of The Flash was a doozy. Over the course of two or three scenes, it moved the story of Barry Allen forward dramatically. Cisco shot. A tsunami poised to smash Central City. Barry and Iris making peace … Continue reading
Rebuilding Community
Community is a tricky thing, both fictitious and real. Just ask the makers of NBC-now-Yahoo’s Community, starting its sixth season today with Yahoo’s Screen service. If it happened to still be on NBC, it would be the final remnant of it’s … Continue reading
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Quarter’s End, Find a Spot
The third quarter of the school year comes to a close today. Time flies regardless of whether you’re having fun or not (and I’ve definitely enjoyed this semester). If all goes well, I’ll get to leave the classroom today and … Continue reading
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Paging Bruce Banner
A friend recently shared with me some thoughts on anger from Chip Dodd’s The Voice of the Heart. I’ve not quite thought about anger in this way before, but I like it: Authentic anger is a caring feeling, telling us that something … Continue reading
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Believing with Mumford and Sons
Count me among those interested in what a banjo-less Mumford & Sons sounds like. The band just released their first single from the new album, Wilder Mind. You can check out that new song, “Believe,” below. It builds well, though … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 