About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
Monthly Archives: February 2013
The Set-Up: Round two
Last week I blogged a bit about the film version of The Set-Up, so I thought I should take the time to read the book. The book and the film have similarities and differences, which Jefferson Hunter detailed far better than … Continue reading
Ventriloquism for dummies
I thought the Animated Movie Trading Cards assignment was an awesome idea. I had the idea to do this earlier, when I saw the Movie Trading Cards assignment, because Michael Branson Smith’s Dirty Dozen GIFs would have been a natural fit. But … Continue reading
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Further FAWMing
A few days ago Grant Potter tweeted something about Lee Marvin’s Irish Ballads which I naturally had to investigate further. Artist Cris Shapan had photoshopped together a collection of classic imaginary LPs. I was likewise fascinated by the album Lee Marvin’s … Continue reading
Crime rhyme
Robert Wise’s The Set-Up is probably the only noir boxing film based on a poem. It’s a story about a fixed boxing match, starring legendary tough guy Robert Ryan as the fighter who’s supposed to take the dive. His manager, thinking … Continue reading
The addictive power of feedback
They all asked about you Down on the FAWM The cows asked, the pigs asked, the horses asked too. (Barrère) Down on the Farm Somewhere in the Twitter stream about #ds106 there was a mention of The RPM Challenge: “write … Continue reading
Happy Valentine’s Day, America!
I couldn’t think of a good line to go with the Valentine’s Day Caption Challenge, but I did have a pack of Valentine cards from Captain America. I found them in the clearance cart in a grocery store about a … Continue reading
Information Literacy Journal Club
A few weeks ago we had the initial meeting of the Information Literacy Journal Club. I was unable to participate in any real fashion, as it took place during a busy time of day in my time zone, but I … Continue reading
True crime
Last semester I played along with Jim Groom’s hardboiled detective fiction course at UMW. After all the fun we had with that course, we’re looking at exploring crime reporting in America from colonial era execution sermons through classic true crime (In … Continue reading
EngCompMOOC
Karen Head is blogging about a freshman composition MOOC that she is developing with a few other team members. Like myself, and no doubt many others, she’s skeptical that Comp 101 could work as a MOOC, but she’s brave enough … Continue reading