Tim

Same site, new host

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I’ve moved the site to TextDrive, which doesn’t change what you see, but changes a little how I put it up here. Just a little plug for them.

Boing Boing: Family Circus meets Cthulhu

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Several years ago, while working as an adjunct instructor teaching film studies, two of the more sarcastic students I taught asked me to sponsor a student club, a club to be their response to the Campus Crusade for Christ. They wanted no more than to register the name of the group, and for that they … Read more

Walk the Line

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Saw the Johnny Cash biopic tonight (spoiler: he marries June and sings at Folsom Prison). E and W liked it more than I did, and I liked it, but it was too… patterned. A.O. Scott describes it well in his comparison with the Rac Charles biopic: Walk the Line”offers more tribute than insight.” I recommend … Read more

Thanksgiving

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Turkey, dressing, gravy (mmmm, gravy…), pie… we feasted. I hope you did too, if you’re in America and were well fed if you’re not. We missed those not with us today, and thought of them, and celebrated those who were with us.

The Rockettes

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We watched the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular this evening at the Fox Theatre. The show was fun, the precision dancing was impressive, and the Fox is a great venue for this kind of old fashioned entertainment. My favorite part was how impressed the little kids were. One little boy walked by during the … Read more

Digital Black and White

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Petteri Sulonen provides a careful, step-by-step guide, with several examples along the way, for making high-quality black and white images from digital color photographs. Digital Black and White Black and white was what first got me “seriously” into photography. While I never attained real mastery in black and white printing, I have spent a long … Read more