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Most of my grading is done until Saturday, when I give an 8:00 in the morning final exam. Yeah, really looking forward to it. I'm now fi...

Getting my final papers in today (Thursday), and gave two tests this week that I need to grade. Will have another test on Monday. Senior Gra...

I dreamt last night that I was on the set for the filming of the final scenes of a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. Picard, Troi, R...

It’s Easter Break and I’m at my computer at home instead of at work this morning. That means I get to look out the window at our bird feede...

I’ve posted here before about my favorite video game, which is Skyrim. This is an heroic fantasy game, in which one can play various types ...

Well, been almost a week since I posted on the blog. I don’t know how time gets away from me. For one, we had preregistration last week, ...

Updated News: Prashant, over at Chess, Comics, Crosswords, Books, Music, Cinema , has now put up the review of Killing Trail , and there i...

I've actually written a fair number of words lately but ultimately have not made a lot of "progress." I've started four di...

Today, my writing students are going to get the following, non-graded quiz. All the examples here are taken from actual student papers hand...

So I made it the Noir at the Bar reading at the Irish House on St. Charles last night. I got there a bit early because I’d heard they had g...

I'll be here on Saturday night this week, March 22. I'm really looking forward to it. A number of authors are going to be reading...

I quite often make a point of saying that films mean almost nothing to me. It’s true. I watch movies. I enjoy some of them. Almost always I...

I read Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy quite a few years ago now, and reviewed it at the time in various places. I never posted the revie...

  At midnight the police moved in and began to disperse the dense French Quarter crowd. The members of that crowd didn’t want to stop the p...

This will probably be my last post about music for a while. Below are some of my favorite rock songs by bands that really only had one song...

When I started putting together my list of top ten favorite hard rock songs I ran into a problem. I had a lot more than ten. However, I foun...

Picking numbers 6 through 10 of my favorite hard rock songs proved very difficult. So, I ended up making a further division of favorites. B...

Here are the first five songs from my favorite Hard Rock list. Certainly there are many other good songs that might fall into my top five un...

Here are metal songs 6 through 10 for me. Ty pointed out that his list would change with his mood and that is true of me as well. This is m...