Tag: Pop culture

  • Definitive Ranking of Grey’s Anatomy Seasons

    If there is a scholar of Grey’s Anatomy, it is me. I’ve watched every episode within days of its original airing. I watched the pilot live as it aired. Actually, I watched all of the first two seasons live as they aired. I built my work schedule around it back when Grey’s was on Sunday […]

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  • Favorite Films and Shows

    I was involved in a serious conversation with a few friends recently in which we each tried to name our “Top 10” movies.  I drew a complete blank.  I couldn’t even name a movie I liked without thinking “But surely there are 10 other movies I like more than this one…”  So now here we […]

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  • Summer 2013 in sights and sounds

    I’ll try to post something of substance before the fall semester starts in 2 weeks.  But today I’m inspired to share my summer with you through the music, movies, TV shows, and books that accompanied me through good times and bad.

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  • Hockey, movies, and the sad state of math education

    There’s something both comforting and a little embarrassing/disgusting about having a “usual” at a food or beverage place.  I don’t mean you order the same thing every time you go there, and that’s your “usual;” lots of people do that.  I mean, when you walk in, the people who work there already start making your […]

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  • “We could live forever but we’ll never be this young again”

    “We could live forever but we’ll never be this young again”

    So, as a continuation of my concert history (see this entry for part one), I saw another show a few weeks ago.  My third one in 5 weeks – the only 3 I’ve seen since I moved to Dallas. The Limousines played with The Sounds in Dallas about 2 and a half weeks ago.  They […]

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  • “American girls, they want the whole world.”

    “American girls, they want the whole world.”

    In this entry I’m going to depart from talking about grad school or teaching at all and talk about something I’ve been thinking about lately.  I’m not sure how entertaining these stories will be to someone who wasn’t there, so I apologize if this entry is boring to everyone but me. I really love listening […]

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