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all of the threads linked in the stickied Directory threads in GMDBRF are dead. I wonder if Internet Archive has them?

That show was fucking great. It was cut right as it was about to get epic. I've read interviews with the showrunner who had some pretty big plans for the subsequent seasons. I'm pretty certain it was on around the same time period as Sopranos (later seasons), The Wire, Rome, and Deadwood (+/- a...

dordeduh have a new album out in May via Prophecy Productions

played basketball with dodens but didn't chat on msn...shame

Obligatory west coast GMD representative...just doing my duty

Shit!

Winding down my first semester as a tenure-track faculty member. It's been a wild semester. Luckily, I had some really good students this semester and had some fascinating discussions. The Summer Bridge program I coordinate will be starting up in about a month, even though we've been planning...

was hoping this would be a thread about the movie. One of the main stars, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, was one of my professors in grad school. Super cool guy

Read Hillbilly Elegy and The Death of Expertise recently. Both were very refreshing and much needed reads. Hillbilly Elegy was, admittedly, a bit slow for the first half of the book, and that might be because half of my family is from the south, so it wasn't super unfamiliar to me. That being...

That's kind of my logic. I'd rather spend an equal (or less) amount on beer by a brewery I like. The few times it's been cost-effective is when I've done a barleywine and imperial stout

That explains things

Blatant Drudkh worship, which I'm kind of okay with:

I remember the Assistant Dean running into me on campus and saying, "No chapter titles? I can't sign off on that!" The look on my face...he immediately replied, "I'm kidding I'm kidding!". Good god. Those signatures

I think part of it is trying to "sound academic". In one of my literacy classes we read James Paul Gee who referred to this as "mushfaking." They're trying the discourse on for size. They might think their sentences are supposed to sound convoluted and obtuse because that's how they think...

Yeah. I tell my students something similar when we discuss paragraphing. I tell them it focuses on one main idea, and it's however long it needs to be to support and explore that idea. Sometimes it's 5-7 sentences. Sometimes more...

Hung out with @Funerary_Doom and her boyfriend and showed them some of LA's finest breweries. We went to the new Modern Times Dankness Dojo in downtown LA and sampled their wares. We then did the two mandatory Torrance stops, Monkish and Smog City. Good times were had by all

Since I know a few of you are into Ligotti and weird fiction in general, the founders of www.ligotti.net (whom I've known about as long as I've been on this forum) are beginning their own literary journal and are preparing to print the first issue via Kickstarter. I've backed it and would...

Not to mention that if it's the only way you're taught how to write an essay, and you don't like it, then chances are likely you won't enjoy writing any essays. I pretty much spend the first week trying to undo many of those bad writing habits ("Put a comma where you pause") and trying to get...