You know there was a time a couple years ago when I spent a lot of time writing about cops randomly killing black people for sport and how sometimes it’s a good idea to burn your own city to the ground in order to get attention. Eventually the #BlackLivesMatter movement started and that’s kinda great. And then…
For reasons that I don’t entirely understand, Stephanie had been dying to see the movie reboot of Baywatch. She’s never mentioned the show before. She’s never spoken of her love for post-Knight Rider David Hasselhoff or pre-Hat Squad Billy Warlock. She’s never regaled me with tales of how she learned how to do an emergency tracheotomy…
Big Trumper is Watching About two weeks before the 2016 presidential election I was talking to my mother on the phone and I said something to the effect of “I am looking forward to seeing exactly how Donald Trump will bring about the downfall of America once he wins. I remember…
So in the name of continuing to pimp my academic career… I’ll be speaking TWICE at the 3 Rivers Screenwriters Conference at Point Park University (in Pittsburgh) this weekend. Despite the name, the conference is NOT just for screenwriting. Though there’s plenty of that going on. It’s an academic and professional conference devoted to “the…
When the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie came out, I wasn’t expect much. I’m not really much of a fan of the comic. It’s fine. I didn’t think it would suck or anything. It just looked like “oh, a movie with Rocket Raccoon. That ought to be fun maybe.” I was very pleasantly surprised…
“Jeepers! A Dame — And she’s been croaked!” – Seriously… there’s totally a reason I used this picture here.A while back someone, I don’t remember who, asked me how I could possibly be an academic, let alone an English teacher, given the way I write — the topics, the humor (or…