Using NowComment to Analyze Images
I have always loved political cartoons. As a paperboy the first thing I would do was to open up the editorial page of the Louisville Courier-Journal and read Hugh Haynie’s cartoons. I discovered on my...
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An Other Zeega
I wrote a poem. Simon gave it a damned fine reading. I took Simon’s reading and my poem and mashed them into a Zeega. It all seemed so easy, so frictionless, so unplanned, unstrategic, and emergent....
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Fail, Try Again
At the university I work at, we have an employment classification called “Instructor”. In our department, English, there are five of us. We teach full-time, we get benefits, and I actually have an...
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Digital Humanist
The quote above comes from a short interview with Laura Braunstein who is the Digital Humanities and English Librarian at the Dartmouth College Library. Something shifted a bit inside me as I read...
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Plan Yr Wrk, Wrk Yr Plan
I tell my students about the best piece of advice I ever got when my wife and I were running our chimney sweeping business. I tell them it made us a lot of money. I tell them we paid for our farm and...
View ArticleWhat Is This Stuff Good For?
I ran across this interesting lit course in a blog post: 100 MUST READS OF MAGICAL REALISM by LEAH RACHEL VON ESSEN10-17-17 I think what they are trying to do is generate Amazon affiliate revenue....
View ArticleWhat’s Going Down Here?
One of the best ways to share with and honor the work of your friends is to take time, slow down, and make the effort to read one of their posts or videos or poems or images or songs. I use the word...
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Browser History Twister
Yesterday, Wendy Taleo responded to my idea in a tweetchat about using browser histories to “doodle” with. She created the image below, then I created a thinglink to add digital objects to the image....
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Come Back, Gif. Come Back.
A recent encounter on Twitter: My daily posting is from a list of #NWP teachers with innovative digital writing pedagogies. The hashtags are culled from their tweets. — Peter Kittle (@pkittle) August...
View ArticleGet Busy Livin’ or Get Busy Dyin’
I got a little carried away with my emotions and rhetoric in the post below, but a very large chunk of me says that while I am busy hating here, I am also busy loving my little hollar and neighborhood...
View ArticleSummer Words and Farm Parables
In the embed below are some selected short stories and poems I have written this summer. They rose out of the decentralized social media platform, Mastodon. I enjoyed and continue to relish the...
View ArticleJess Wade’s Quest Can Be Anyone’s Quest
Academic writes 270 Wikipedia pages in a year to get female scientists noticed Jess Wade is a scientist on a mission. She wants every woman who has achieved something impressive in science to get the...
View ArticleLess Data, More Freire.
Less Data, More Freire. Seek, Make Sense of, and Share with Alison McDowell I love the “responsive activity” (as my buddy @dogtrax calls it) of digital annotation, but I have a big concern with the...
View Article#Poemresponse for #CLMOOC
Here is a poem in response to a request from Jen Niester-Mika (@theNMwriter) as part of #CLMOOC’s “Come Sail into the Poetry Port”
View ArticleFeedforward: Interview Questions for Plague Time
I found these questions in an interview series that Interview Magazine did with Jia Tolentino. The interview series is fantastic and …hopeful? Yeah, it is that, but it’s also laced with a jolt of...
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