Monthly Archives: September 2012

Made my own gif!

This is just a practice gif that I made for fun  ( ´ ▽ ` )ノWanted to see how it would turn out first before making a real one, hope you like it!Made it on Makeagif.com     Continue reading

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Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust.

Wow! If anyone ever needed the definition for a nutcase I would show them Bandini. He is insane, not to mention narcissistic and just rude. There are so many directions I could take this post, but I will just stick to his … Continue reading Continue reading

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Noir-ish

Last evening I watched Killer’s Kiss, a 1955 film by Stanley Kubrick. It’s his second film, made when he was only 26 (the bastard). Is this really noir? It has all the elements – darkness, death, dysfunction, criminals, voice-over narration, … Continue reading Continue reading

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Don’t Ask the Dust, Ask the Internet

Throughout the first five weeks of the hardboiled Freshman seminar I’m teaching, I’ve taken pains to reinforce how essential it is to read for context. To read for the things that don’t make sense, read for the things you do not … Continue reading Continue reading

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Essential Existential Dust

So in my literary arts class in my junior year we had a philosophy unit. And we learned about existentialism. I’m not sure if our teacher didn’t explain it very well, or if we were just too young and it … Continue reading Continue reading

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I suppose you think you’ve raised hell

Props to the Cohen Brothers! As an avid reader and aspiring writer, I feel sacrilegious saying this, but I enjoyed Miller’s Crossing so much better than Red Harvest. To me, the Cohen brothers took the good parts of Hammett’s novel, … Continue reading Continue reading

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Reflections on dust

sleroyer wrote early on about her struggles with reading and how the class discussions inspired her to want to get more out of it, “to understand these books like some of [her] classmates.” And while I have always been a strong … Continue reading Continue reading

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Hardboiled: Ask the Dust Discussion (Part 2)

Last night in the Hardboiled lit class I’m teaching this semester we continued our discussion of John Fante’s Ask the Dust. The class spent a few minutes in the beginning discussing some calendar updates, preparing for the Wikipedia research project … Continue reading Continue reading

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Ask The Dust Swag

While searching for an image for my soon to be next post I discovered some amazing Ask the Dust swag, which made my day! I found everything from bookmarks to stickers to bookcovers to a table tent.
And here is all … Continue reading Continue reading

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Ask the Desert

I just finished Ask The Dust and surprising loved it. At the beginning I hated Arturo, and thought him to be a self-absorbed asshole (excuse my french). I couldn’t stand the way he abused Camilla both physically and psychologically. I … Continue reading Continue reading

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