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Hugo Award Reads, 2022
Four reviews of four novels nominated for Hugo Awards in 2022. I forgot to post this in August! Catching up.
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My Manifesto for the Collapse
The irony is not lost on me that I, a card-carrying member of Generation X, did not expect the world to get this bad. GenX: latch-key kids; the last generation before helicopter parenting; the digital transition cohort who have had to leapfrog into new technologies at least every 5 years as we’ve straddled the entire…
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Fashion controversy at BJU: art vs a separatist tradition
I am very late to the party of reading this excellent analysis about a dust-up a few months ago at Bob Jones University in their fashion design program. https://baptistnews.com/article/how-a-students-fashion-design-project-upset-the-created-order-at-bob-jones-university/#.Yin_S99OnKb What I appreciate about Pidcock’s analysis: He deconstructs the separatist theology and racism in BJU’s history (and current mindset) and ties it to this dust-up. The…
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And the end of the doctorate draweth nigh…
A wee bit of celebration…
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How the Muppet Christmas Carol got me through my freshman year
Look, this story is going to make NO SENSE to anyone who didn’t attend my alma mater for undergraduate, so … you’ve been warned. I love The Muppet Christmas Carol. It came out during my freshman year in college and I’m sure I watched it at home over the holiday, as did pretty much everyone…
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