I’ve been taking a lot of pictures with my plastic fisheye camera lately. These pictures were taken with a Lomographic FishEye Camera, which is totally worth the $38 it is going for on amazon.com. It’s made of plastic and looks like this: I’ve kept it in the car with me for the last two weeks, […]
This is the Holden Caulfield Phoniness Detector. It really is. We used it class on the characters in the book, and then gave it a spin to see what else it could do. Here are the results. I had the students rank the characters in the novel using the Holden Caulfield phoniness scale of -5 […]
The storms that hurtle through Memphis are not to be toyed with. Above is the damage my back patio incurred this Monday when we got an early dose of summer storms. I feel lucky. My neighborhood got hit with an early summer storm on Monday. My house got a black eye, but many on my […]
March was a busy, busy month for me, but I managed to finish three books. Here’s what they were and what I thought about them. 1. Waterland by Graham Swift I read Graham Swift’s amazing novel, Last Orders, last summer while I was at Yale, and one of my fellow Yalies, Susanna, recommended this one. […]
As a culminating activity for our study of the Harlem Renaissance, I brought my video camera to class and filmed some of my students reciting poems from Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. You should see what a great job they did. 1. “I, Too” by Langston Hughes I, Too Langston Hughes I, too, sing America. […]