Disclaimer: I have never read Dr. Seuss’s book, The Lorax. I have seen the 1972 TV special, which I have been told is an almost word for word adaptation. Any comparisons I make are relative to the TV special, not the book. Being as fabulously behind the times as I am, I only got around
Recettear and the Grocer/Shopper Relationship
I recently read an article in the anthology Food Nations by Tracey Deutsch entitled “Untangling Alliances: Social Tensions surrounding Independent Grocery Stores and the Rise of Mass Retailing.” In it, Deutsch makes the argument that chain stores supplanting and taking over small, family owned groceries had as much to do with the tension-fraught relationships between those small
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A New Contributor Appears…
Having been one of the people Tim conceived of the idea of this blog with, it’s high time I started making my own contributions. I am the aforementioned graduate student in Popular Culture; my main focus is on comics, but I also have a keen interest in video games, tabletop roleplaying games, and cartoons (including
Ninja Teaching
(HT: Video Game Voters Network) While certainly not the only teacher to make the connection between Video Games and Educating, Lucas Gillispie has been spending four years developing a curriculum for Pender County, North Carolina that is currently in use. Here are some of the best bits: Gillispie, who has always been a self-described gaming
A Second Introduction of Sorts
Hail, fair traveler! In keeping with other blogs I read, I’ve decided that a second post might be in order to help flesh out a schedule of sorts. I say a schedule of sorts because, in all fairness, it is a schedule that I won’t be keeping the next week or so due to real
Meet and Greet!
Salutations! I’ve gone and done it. I’ve finally dragged myself back into the bilge of blogging, after months of swamping back and forth over whether I’d really wanted to. Some family and close friends might remember a previous blogging experiment I’d tried entitled “Historiocrazy,” which talked about, well, whatever it was I felt like talking
