SEK and his class are brainstorming ideas for their end-of-quarter rhetoric-in-practice project. SEK: Given the fact that we studied Fellowship of the Ring and Game of Thrones, I could easily see something like the "Sean Bean Death Reel" being a viable final project. STUDENT #1:...
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In 1993, the American Family Association convinced 57 ABC affiliates not to air the series premier of NYPD Blue because it contained the word "asshole." A few years later, many.
Very. I know you're tired of hearing me talk about circles, but it's not my fault: the series is making me do it. Consider the set design of the Eyrie:.
These people: "We focus-grouped it to people and realized pretty quickly that viewers wanted debate," hot-shot First Take producer Jamie Horowitz told Men's Journal. "In particular, they wanted to see Skip [Bayless] debate." Given how legitimately great his younger brother is, I'm sure he's nicknamed...
By request, a roughly chronological account of the last few months of our favorite troll's life: Romney already hitting it out of the park. Stick a fork in Obama, he’s.
One of the issues with teaching Game of Thrones is that nudity is treated very casually—so casually that the very idea of watching it with your mother feels deeply wrong..
Bill O'Reilly is on FOX arguing that the "white establishment" would've "roundly defeated Obama" and elected Romney 20 years ago, but that's because back then we lived in a "traditional America." He's also arguing that women, blacks and Hispanics "want stuff, they want stuff, and...
... I'll share this Facebook post someone whose opinion I trust mightily wrote last night: Dear People Flipping Out, I've mentioned this before, but about a decade ago I was.
I always say that titles don't matter, then I go on to demonstrate how they do, so I see no harm in doing so again: the definite articles in the.
I'm far too refined to write about something as petty and droll as a Presidential election, but I thought I'd share this utterly unrelated series of images I concocted for my Game of Thrones class. The idea is simple: this one character, Joffrey, believes he...
It just dawned on me that I asked my students to write about the historical context of race and gender relations in 1996. They have no idea what it was.
The person who subtitled Alias is either brilliant or an idiot: SYDNEY: WHERE IS THE ANECDOTE! RUSSIAN SPY: THERE IS NO ANECDOTE! SYDNEY: GIVE US THE ANECDOTE NOW! RUSSIAN SPY:.