Originally posted February 2006 Please be warned there are spoilers in this review. I went to The Corpse Bride expecting something fantastical and whimsical, much…
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“Biodiversity vs. Bioengineering?”
This is a class assignment to critique Huber’s article “Biodiversity vs. Bioengineering?” solely on the issue of whether the use of deception was sound argumentation…
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Originally posted April 2004 Thanks to George for making this a better review, as he always does. Books of historical fiction are based, in varying…
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Book review originally posted June 2004 With thanks to Guthrum, oddly enough, who showed me loving horror didn’t mean you were one. ;-) King has…
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Originally written December 2003: more of a grumble than usual… As you probably don’t know, by profession I am a web site designer. I take…
Continue ReadingReview: “Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, & Popular Literature” by Janice A. Radway
Originally written in the late 1990’s for a “Popular Culture” Anthropology class. In her book Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature, Janice A.…
Continue ReadingFeminism & the Bible: Examining the Christian Myth of Creation
Originally written in the early 1990’s for an absolutely amazing class on the bible as history and literature. My later notes, to clarify the paper,…
Continue ReadingBabbage Difference Engine #2
Just got back from the opening weekend of the newest exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. The museum’s in the old…
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directed by John McTiernan 1 August 2006 movie review by Collie Collier Credits: For Dave, who brought it over — you know me too well!…
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by Mary Jo Putney 20 July 2006 book review by Collie Collier Credits: For my kind-hearted and thoughtful recommender, who I hope will both find…
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