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For better or worse, I have to say that the media surrounding the current presidential election has been some of the sharpest comedy I’ve seen in a few years. In the above, Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, and Andy Griffith reprise some famous roles to keep your attention […]
I hosted a vampire-themed movie night last night, and the first of the two movies on the bill was Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark. Now, Near Dark is one of my favorite horror films, vampire or otherwise, and re-watching it always reminds me why. The landscape shots of west Texas and Oklahoma are beautiful, and the […]
Last week was the Flow Conference, which I did some graphics and organizational work for. I also co-moderated a panel on the role of video game studies in the academy, convened by Judd Ruggill and Ken McAllister, co-directors of the Learning Games Initiative.
In addition to the rousing discussion sparked at that roundtable and at […]
Yesterday, I went to the State Fair of Texas with my friend and colleague John Cline. We’d made the same trip last year, and while in line for the Texas Star ferris wheel, he’d started in about wanting an airbrushed t-shirt but not being sure what to put on it. We ran through a few […]
“mongrel” america, the annual University of Texas American Studies graduate student conference went off without a hitch, and I’m now back to staring down my dissertation. Our keynote speaker was Dick Hebdige (UC - Riverside), who gave a talk about race, rockabilly, and the west. He played a bunch of music clips, and showed scraps […]