The Nameless Writing Project(s) (or, Throwing Out My Soul and Wondering What You Think)
Some of you might recall this post about my financial troubles (more like financial stupidity compounded by some very real financial problems). Recently, things have grown a little worse. I haven’t talked about it much on this blog, but one of my pet leopard geckos (Noodles) has had an ongoing eye problem for close to […]
Syllabus Update: A Little More Science Fiction, a Lot More Cohesion
Some of you might recall that I am hard at work on a syllabus for a survey in American literature for the summer. I expressed some concern over the lack of women in my selections and a number of you made suggestions, which I have taken to heart. I haven’t included all of your suggestions […]
A Science Fiction Thesis Fragment: Some Tobias Buckell Love
I have been inspired by a friend to post something from my academic work in hopes that it will bore you to tears. Then again, the fragment I plan to post is about science fiction; more particularly, it’s about the work of Tobias Buckell, who I spent half of my thesis talking about. Here you […]
Mr. Library: What Have You Got Checked Out?
We all know that libraries are under attack these days, and I intend to do my part to show their importance by checking out books (because I have some delusion that using the library is somehow recorded and then sent to evil government people who are forced to reconsider cutting library funds because people actually […]
The Forgotten Pilot: My Foray Into Scriptwriting For Animated Shorts
Last night I posted something unusual on my Twitter account: the script for a pilot episode of an animated miniseries I wanted to do with some friends way back when I was still trying to write comics. The show was called “Cheese and Crackers” and featured exaggerated versions of myself and people I knew (mainly […]
Syllabus Woes: That American Lit Class I’m Teaching
If you don’t follow me on Twitter, then you don’t know that I’ve been putting together a syllabus for a Survey in American Literature course for Summer B (the second 6-week chunk of the University of Florida’s summer “semester”). Picking texts has been difficult because the course is so short; showing students some of the […]