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Coming Soon on Bibliofeed

Starting on (I think) January 8th, the Instagram account Bibliofeed will be featuring a post a day for a week about books I recommend. It’s a great feed — a post every day about a recommended book by that week’s contributor. Check it out now and you might find something you might like. Just scroll through their feed. My posts will cover 1. Jonathan Carroll, Mr. Breakfast (Melville House…

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#Bibliofeed #Books #Chris Maxwell #David Bowie #david bowie and romanticism #Disability #Disability writing #Friends of Friends of Friends #Jonathan Carroll #Just Kids #Lee Fearnside #Literature #Mr Breakfast #Music #Patti Smith #Poetry #Reading #Rock and Romanticism #Romanticism #William Blake #women in rock #Women in Rock Women in Romanticism

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Clapton, Beck, and Page: The Yardbirds Guitarists Project

The history of contemporary music, of today’s music, begins in October of 1962 with the Beach Boys’ first album, Surfin’ Safari. It was quickly followed by the Beatles’ first UK album, Please Please Me, released in the UK in March of 1963. While the Beatles’ first US release wasn’t until 1964, they had been releasing singles in the US since 1962. When they released “I Want to Hold Your Hand” in…

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#1960s #1970s #1980s #1990s #2000s #Blind Faith #Blues #Blues Rock #Cream #Derek and the Dominoes #Eric Clapton #Guitar #Guitarists #Jazz #Jeff Beck #Jimmy Page #Led Zeppelin #Live Performance #Music #Rock #Rock and Roll #rock music #The Firm #Yardbirds

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“David Bowie’s Station to Station and ★: The Beginning and End of Bowie’s Reinvention of Music”

The following paper will be presented at the 2023 Popular Culture Association Conference of the South in New Orleans in session F 11.1: Friday, September 29th at 4:00 p.m. in Algiers A. Many thanks to Samuel Lyndon Gladden, University of New Orleans, for his work organizing this panel. By 2015 I’d been living in Ohio for seven years, so I wanted to undertake a project dedicated to the State of…

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#blackstar #Bowie #Conference #Conference Paper #David Bowie #lazarus #Literature #Music #PCAS 2023 #Poetry #Pop culture #Pop Culture Association #Romanticism #Video #WPLongform

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The Real "First Edition" of the Iliad and the Dumb J-Lo Clip

The Real "First Edition" of the Illiad and the Dumb J-Lo Clip

A clip from J-Lo’s The Boy Next Door is making the rounds on the internet today. In that film, J-Lo plays a teacher who has an affair with one of her students, and in this scene her student gives her an “expensive” gift. You can tell she’s really smart because she’s wearing glasses, and you can view the clip here. So the boy hands her a book, she opens the cover, then looks in and says, “Oh my…

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#Books #Boy Next Door #Crowell #Film #First Edition Iliad #Homer #Iliad #J-Lo #Publishing History

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Nicki Minaj, Blues, and 70s' Rock

Last March I changed the title of my website to Philosophy of Contemporary Song, partly because I’d just read Dylan’s recent book, and partly because of a conversation with my sixteen year old daughter Grace, who told me she wished people like me would write about songs by artists like Nicki Minaj. She’s not at all a Minaj fan — she thought her lyrics were “trash” and was wondering why someone…

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#Blues #Howlin Wolf #Literature #Love lyrics #Love Songs #Lyrics #Memphis Minnie #Minaj #Music #Nicki Minaj #Rap #Rick James #Robert Johnson #Sex #Songs #Super Freak #Super Freaky Girl #WPLongform

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Enlightenment vs. Romantic Paradigms for Writing Instruction

Lee Trepanier’s “The Compliant College Classroom” and Blake Smith’s “Against the Writing Center” are both recent diatribes against the current state of writing instruction at the college level. They make similar claims from different disciplinary perspectives: Trepanier is Chair and Professor of Political Science at Samford University while Smith is currently serving as a Fulbright scholar in…

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#enlightenment #Literature #Pedagogy #romantic #Romanticism #WPLongform #Writing #Writing Instruction #writing pedagogy

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An Allan Responds to the Barbie Movie

I grew up watching Speed Racer, the original anime, on television in the late 1960s. I probably watched it from the time I was four or five until I was eight or ten on a constant stream of reruns. So when the Wachowskis released a live action Speed Racer in 2008, I was gratified. Not necessarily as a discriminating adult, which isn’t saying much, by the way. When it comes to film, I’m more into…

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#Allan #Barbie #Barbie the Movie #Feminism #Film Review #Ken #Review #WPLongform

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The Only Question

The Only Question …and that is when he came to me, the great sucking darkness, the formless one, not a place where anyone or anything is, but the place where everything is not (at least as far as he can help it). And that is when he said to me, “Do it.” He said only that at first: “Do it.” But then he said, “You know you want to.” And I hesitated to answer, because there is no point talking back…

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#Free Verse #Literature #Poem #Poetry

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Poem: "God of Life"

A poem I wrote in 2014 to celebrate Easter. . . View this document on Scribd Written Easter 2014 Previous | First in the Series | Index | The Scars Project

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#2014 #Christianity #Coming #Easter #Free Verse #NaPoWriMo #Poetry #Religion

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Frendeles

Frendeles Elated, lucid rotund peaches heave their twin, soft, downy curves into the still loneliness of cold northern climes, of dark lands with a night that lasts all day. c Jim Rovira 2016 Colorado Springs

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#cf #Free Verse

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Liber Abaci

Liber Abaci O! Could any great stone, mountainous though it is, resist that wry, gentle, know- ing look that pierces your dark surfaces with humor like prismatic sunlight dript through summer windowpanes in early morning: you want the light, but don't want to wake up. c 2017 Jim Rovira

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#Experimental Verse #fibonacci sequence #Free Verse #Poetry #tlm

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Phosphorus and Fire Lily

The youth Phosphorus entered the valleyas a gleaming light upon a black hill. Fire Lily saw himand loved him,saying, “Be only mine. . .forever!” “I want to be yours, my lovely flower,but that would give birthto your senses and  spark thought.” “O let me be all yourswithin my glowing fire. Withinmy rays of light.” Fire Lily kissed Phosphorusand, exploding into flame, shegave birth to a…

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#ETA Hoffmann #hoffmann #Literature #Myth #Poem #Poetry #Romanticism #The Golden Pot

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Oscar Wilde's "De Profundis"

A Cento by James Rovira “De Profundis” by Oscar WildeA Cento by James Rovira Suffering is one very long moment. Time itself does not progress | It revolves.It circles round one center of pain. There is only one season | the season of sorrow.It is always twilight in this prison cell and in this heart. In the sphere of time and thought | motionis no more. I say to myself that I ruined…

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#Cento #Contemporary Poetry #De Profundis #Free Verse #Literature #modern poetry #Oscar Wilde #Poem #Poetry

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Ballad of a Selfish Boy

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms Alone and palely loitering?The sedge has withered from the lake,And no birds sing. O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,So haggard and so woe-begone?The squirrel’s granary is full,And the harvest’s done. I see a lily on thy brow,With anguish moist and fever-dew,And on thy cheeks a fading roseFast withereth too. I met a lady in the meads,Full beautiful—a…

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#19th century #Ballads #Breakups #British Romanticism #Fairies #Fairy #John Keats #Keats #Knights #La Belle Dam Sans Merci #Literature #Love #Poetry #Romance #Romantic Love #Romantic Poetry #Romanticism

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Course Observation: Philip Roth

Lisa Scottoline’s “English Class with Mr. Roth” (May 3, 2014 NYT) recalls the author’s experience as an undergraduate student attending two of Philip Roth’s literature courses at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1970s. Scottoline concludes her essay with this description of the aftereffects Roth’s teaching: Looking back, I’ve come to understand that he was the best professor I ever had, not…

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#Higher Ed #Lisa Scottoline #New York Times #Pedagogy #Philip Roth #Satire #Teaching

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AI in the Classroom

I’ve long been an early technology adapter. I started building webpages/websites in the 90s, used turnitin.com not just for plagiarism checking but for providing rich feedback on student papers in the very early 2000s, and around that time had students write live blogs on a course website as part of their writing requirements. I didn’t catch up to the iPhone until the iPhone 3, but I owned a…

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#AI #ChatGPT #CHE #Chronicle of Higher Ed #Higher Education #Plagiarism #WPLongform #Writing

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AI and Talking Heads, Part III: Why Sentient Machines Will Never Exist

In AI and Talking Heads, Part II, I made a distinction between “Strong” AI and “Weak” AI, and then went on to describe how Weak AI works. This post will be about Strong AI, or about the possibility of a machine intelligence gaining human-like consciousness, becoming self aware, and then acting out on its own autonomous will. This particular question is one I’ve been interested in since the first…

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#AI #Artificial Consciousness #Artificial Intelligence #Baudrillard #Bicentennial Man #Frankenstein #Literature #Mary Shelley #Matrix #Next Generation #Robin Williams #Romanticism #Star Trek #Stealth #TNG #Urizen #William Blake #WPLongform