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Some Thoughts on the Nature of Comic Cons | Wolkin's House of Chicken and Waffles (and Comics!)
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Wolkin's House of Chicken and Waffles (and Comics! These books were made for Wolkin. Some Thoughts on the Nature of Comic Cons. Posted on September 23, 2012 in: Comics. Other than that, I barely went to the con, and I didn’t have a very good time in 2010 either, especially after I nearly went insane. I also want to give respect to joints like Trickster. Thanks to Sloane Leong. For the note on this one) that are attempting new paradigms for showcasing art and and artists, and what appears to be creating a...
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How to Be a Tenured Ally | Bad Cover Version
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Flotsam on the Stream of Pop Consciousness. About Bad Cover Version. How to Be a Tenured Ally. October 30, 2013. I’m an adjunct at two different private universities.* In those positions, I’ve encountered numerous tenured and tenure-track faculty who were allies to adjuncts, and numerous faculty who were not. After Monday’s post. Here are some handy tips, if you have tenure (or are close to getting it), and you’d like to be an ally:. Recognize that your job is dependent on adjuncts. 3 Listen to adjuncts.
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Freelance Academics (Walking Away from the Con) | Bad Cover Version
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Flotsam on the Stream of Pop Consciousness. About Bad Cover Version. Freelance Academics (Walking Away from the Con). December 18, 2014. Katie Rose Guest Pryal. On Choosing a Topic. KP: Let’s write about leaving academia and trying to rebuild our lives. We could also write about using social media to help us do this rebuilding, via networking, writing, etc., if you think that could work too, since that’s how we met in the first place. But I didn’t leave. Followed by How to Be a Tenured Ally. Suddenly, af...
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Why a Plantation Resort Is Not a Transformative Space | Bad Cover Version
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Flotsam on the Stream of Pop Consciousness. About Bad Cover Version. Why a Plantation Resort Is Not a Transformative Space. January 2, 2014. The Toast’s parody. And then, when I was in middle school, my older cousin went on a tour with my family to Nottoway Plantation. 8220;Don’t you think it’s weird,” she said, “that no one’s mentioned slaves at all? She was right. They hadn’t. It had been “servants” throughout the entire tour: servants selected the cypress beams that were resi...It was a jolt to 12-yea...
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Bad Cover Version | Flotsam on the Stream of Pop Consciousness | Page 2
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Flotsam on the Stream of Pop Consciousness. About Bad Cover Version. Review: Heathers The Musical. March 18, 2014. Was released in 1988, I didn’t see it–pretty much no one did, because it was a flop. But, starting about a year later, I would see it. My older sister and her friends would hold. Eventually, they let me join in. I was three years younger than my sister, and. It meant that I wasn’t being seen as the annoying little sister anymore–at least not always. I would have watched. 8216; satire would g...
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And now for a bit of oversharing | Bad Cover Version
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Flotsam on the Stream of Pop Consciousness. About Bad Cover Version. And now for a bit of oversharing. February 19, 2014. Anyway, I also wanted to give a primer for talking to people with fertility issues. I’ve been fairly open about it, for better or worse. However, I’ve gotten some really insensitive questions and comments from people whom I expected to know better. Here are things you should never, ever say to your friend with fertility issues. 1 So, have you gotten knocked up yet? Not one, but. I wou...
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I’m Sorry I Volunteered As Tribute | Bad Cover Version
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Flotsam on the Stream of Pop Consciousness. About Bad Cover Version. I’m Sorry I Volunteered As Tribute. January 22, 2014. Earlier this week, I read this column. At the Chronicle, which compared the academic job search to Suzanne Collins’s. On the surface, I should have. I write YA fiction in my spare time,* and, as part of my commitment to that element of my writing life, I read a lot of it–widely, from good to bad, and in between. I love. Eventually, I figured out what bothered me. Although the art...
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Stuart Hall (and Tony Jefferson) Changed My Life | Bad Cover Version
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Flotsam on the Stream of Pop Consciousness. About Bad Cover Version. Stuart Hall (and Tony Jefferson) Changed My Life. February 10, 2014. So, everywhere I went, I asked everyone the same question: What books would you recommend to someone in my position? Edited by Stuart Hall. And Tony Jefferson. Both of the dudes recommending it seemed pretty cool (one of them would later become my dissertation advisor), and they actually got my question. Armed with the Birmingham School and its descendants (especially ...
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Stupid Wolkin | Wolkin's House of Chicken and Waffles (and Comics!)
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Wolkin's House of Chicken and Waffles (and Comics! These books were made for Wolkin. Category Archive: Stupid Wolkin. Some Thoughts on the Nature of Comic Cons. Posted on September 23, 2012 in: Comics. Other than that, I barely went to the con, and I didn’t have a very good time in 2010 either, especially after I nearly went insane. I also want to give respect to joints like Trickster. Thanks to Sloane Leong. For the note on this one) that are attempting new paradigms for showcasing art and and artists, ...
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Dispatches from Comic Con | Wolkin's House of Chicken and Waffles (and Comics!)
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Wolkin's House of Chicken and Waffles (and Comics! These books were made for Wolkin. Category Archive: Dispatches from Comic Con. My Final Dispatch from Comic Con. Posted on July 26, 2010 in: Dispatches from Comic Con. San Diego Comic Con. It is over I am over and I am inside you and I finally understand that this was never about comics or movies this was about turning a a building with 100,000 people in it into a giant game of Wooly Willy. Dispatches from Comic Con #5. San Diego Comic Con. 8221; and the...