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nothing here on the performance aspects of twitter. the video elides the possibility of fantasy, humor, the real agent-enacted hopes of/for career/dating/etc. forms of networking. so it essentially presumes that tweets tell what people are actually doing rather than what they wish to articulate as the nature of their activities/lives/selves. perhaps a response video is in order? still, for the

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your sweat is schkeeving me out. use the designated indoor track. come on.professorily civilized and curmudgeonly yours,dr. bonnie kyburz

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so my friend, filmmaker Andy Blubaugh, is blogging about what is sure to be his fabulous new feature film. i have always loved Andy's style and method. i especially love the personal nature of Andy's films and their ability to move us both with and also beyond Andy. essentially, i like how Andy's films motivate us to think more complexly about certain, deeply human and (that is to say)

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so while i have been working with computers in the teaching of writing for something like forever (since 1992, let's say), i have not written much about that work, nor have i attended the Computers and Writing Conference. i almost attended when the conference was in Detroit but didn't. travel budgets being what they were, i couldn't justify it. now, as i continue to emerge as ... eh, let's not

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some of my speculation will seem self-defeating, but i assure you that i am in a very fine and decent mood, contemplating my reality as opposed to striving in ways that (often) disappoint and frustrate. even within my self-doubt*, however, i feel renewed in my efforts, however limited and/or limiting or otherwise less-than-ideally grandiose and appropriate to the academic's sense of largesse.

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Recently, i went to Atlanta to say "good bye" to an old friend, Frank Mullen (aka "Frank-o"), my former brother-in-law and father of my nephew/godson, Kyle. Frank loved his life and enjoyed it like no one I know. Every bite of toast, every sip of Coke, every band gig, or chat with a friend was filled with Frank's desire for laughter and delight, and he always found it. What an awesome friend. In

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i hate capital letters. i can't fully explain it. but as a new project in working conventions, i'm converting references (in links, @ right) so that names and titles are properly capitalized. this, as part of my ongoing my efforts to figure out what is wrong with me (ha!) and in my attempt to fix myself (HA!). i hope this helps. and, until you are "converted," please be patient.this is painful. i

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Would you be willing to send me images of your workspace? home, campus, wherever? i'd like to create a presentation involving these images, inspired by a recent FB comment via Trish Harris re: her office poster of Jim Jarmusch's film Coffee and Cigarettes. Trish's comment reanimated an interest i'd let fade and motivated me to think about the extent to which our workspaces (workspaces as images -

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but merely "saved now." you are so curious.

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so looking forward to seeing Drew Barrymore take on this role in tomorrow night's HBO production of Grey Gardens. as you may recall, i wept in honorific self-flagellation for my inner Little Edie at Christine Ebersole's performance of the same role on Broadway when i was in NYC in 2007. here (from the 2007 Tony Awards  -- she won hers): i've seen clips, and Drew seems remarkably good, as well.

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it's been a while. i've been busy. preparation for CCCC's was monstrous in the midst of my new 4 course lifestyle, other conference matters, family issues, life, and etc., etc. but so now i'm looking ahead to the summer months. i would love to make this the year of my Big Trip to France (ala my heartbreakingly gorgeous Margo Martindale in Alexander Payne's amazing "14ème Arrondissement" in Paris

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i have been socially awkward for most of my life. my parents* started me in 1st grade one year early, believing that they'd seen some genius in me or that some groovy 1960's theory on education held some actual merit.as it turned out, i was paranoid from day one: it was clear that relationships had been formed. earlier. pre-dating my entrance. nevertheless, i made my mark; i was "notable" for a

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some pics from our trip to San Francisco for CCCC's. to better read the text, click on the images and go watch the slideshow in Picasa (choose "slideshow" to get the more visually pleasing and easier-on-the-eyes black frame; you can also slow down the rate of movement from frame to frame).

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i am in between blogs (altho blogs are, i hear, passe ... still). so but i thought i'd share some reflection on my documentary filmmaking process over at maybe. here you go.

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emboldened to think aloud along these lines by both Andy Blubaugh's fabulous short film, "Hello, Thanks" (2005; info here, @ Andy's filmography), and Ondi Timoner's 2009 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary, We Live in Public, i offer:"tenured MWF (R/C) seeking ... "ha. (?). i'm thinking that maybe the day will soon come when we use our blogs or other webspaces to formally advertise our

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yes, it's vanity, but i like to know. my old counter was up to around 3000, and the one prior to that was even higher. but after discovering that it was counting my own visits (i revise a lot and read other blogs through this portal), well ... so but we're back to the beginning, which is rarely a very bad thing.

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it's simple, maybe even too simple (simplistic), but i also find value in Jason's post. i don't want to elaborate but simply to point to it.

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along with We Live in Public, my favorite Sundance 2009 film:

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kindly stop hijacking Obama's volunteerism rhetoric as a way of getting us to do more for less (or nothing). i'm just sayin' ...

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i was deeply moved by the amazing documentary The End of the Line. see it. visit the website. follow the campaign link to reclaim your piece of the ocean. and forgive me if i suddenly seem to have found my activism and act a little nutty in my enthusiasm ...

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mylittlefilm. i wrote about it, its evolution and its potential "meanings," at maybe (early 2007 entries). mostly trying to explore affective experience of place(s) in the context of my evolving work with textuality that happens off-the-page.some of you saw this at PSU. i later submitted it as my "manifesto" for that Kairos issue, but it didn't get accepted (although a different short film did).

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i want to write something witty and fresh, a nod to a new year ... and i will. until then, know that both the book and the doc have happily found greater clarity. the process of preparing to tell other people about one's work, maybe (as in, say, a sabbatical report, for one ...)for now, i'll have to be brief. so ... although it's still surveying historical discourses, the book is about much more

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