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Mysterious Island (1929)

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I was looking for a clip from the George Pal version of The Time Machine and YouTube decided to serve up the moon scene from the 2002 film. This shot right here, still gives me chills. Imagine looking up and seeing that - there’s nothing you can do. *shudders*

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Today in “Quotes that Didn’t Age Well”

“But although Back to the Future temporarily frees us from some of our anxiety by making incest laughable, it no more renders incest acceptable or guiltfree than Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters condones adultery.” 

Andrew Gordon, “Back to the Future: Oedipus as Time Traveler” 1987

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The latest movie I watched for my comp exams was Sorry to Bother You (2018) by Boots Riley and it was not what I expected. I would like to point out that in my viewing notes, around one hour and fifteen minutes, I did write down the questions “what’s with the horse motif?” So...

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Todays Apple is a Snapdragon. #nofilter #applesofinstagram #facebookapples #applesinthe metaverse #tumblrapplememe https://www.instagram.com/p/ClL9c9LuHl_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Another film for my comp exam, Nope (2022) was the kind of movie that has so much going on in every frame, I’m looking forward to winter break to watch it again. This was my screenshot (I pick one to hang on my wall) and I know it’s not representative of the whole movie, but I tend to pick a moment where the movie turns, or where the movie shows itself.

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all of my memes are from 2005, but here is a sassy picture of a stapler from 2015

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Why is graduate school?

What’s interesting about today was how busy I felt, but how little I accomplished.

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No, you used him to get exactly what you wanted. Now that the shine is off your idol, you’re rubbing up against a new one. This is exactly what you are.

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Today in “weird memes I create about rhetoric books I’m reading”:

Gorgias by Plato

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What’s a ‘fitting’ response?

Getting ready for my first “real” exam meeting in Rhetoric and I’m starting to get a bit upset that this guy has been creating exigency for thousands of years.

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You’re not you when your hungry

“...in general, those longing for something and not getting it--are irascible and easily stirred to anger” - Aristotle, On Rhetoric, 2.2.10, in which he perfectly describes hangry.

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Aristotle is a bit circular

I’ve found that hand-writing notes affords me better overall retention of concepts than taking digital notes or just highlighting. I choose printing over cursive, while the cursive is faster, mine is illegible, thereby defeating the purpose. Also, I find that as I take notes, slowly my writing voice begins to mimic the text I’m studying. 

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Notes from my readings:

“Miles is simply destroying a large vegetable that looks nothing like his lover.” 

-Neil Badmington on Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) in Alien Chic: Posthumanism and the Other Within.

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Don’t mind me, just moving in.

WordPress just stopped working for me and how I think I work. I found myself never there, never thinking to update or change my theme, or do anything really worth having the site at all. 

I’d been toying around with just making it a “card” site, just links to other places where I go and do things. But, I’m dragging my feet on that too.

I’ve been using WP off and off since 1.25, I think. And I felt like it left me long ago. The switch to block editing - which I get, when the competition makes website building easy - that was it for me. I didn’t feel like I had that fine control anymore. Like what few skills I’d kept polished were no longer useful.

I like tumblr. I like the ease of sharing things I find interesting. I wanted to consider it again. And I want to post more. Maybe it’s shiny-thing syndrome. Maybe not.

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As for my take, it’s about the constantly of the wipers, always trying and never stopping. It’s not about being behind, for me, but about the brain never stopping.

ADHD

2016

Zhou Wendou