I’ve done this exercise with my students 3 different times now… ‘Get your books out and in groups, write down the biggest news events of the past 20 years. You have 10 minutes… Go.’ After the ten minutes, I ask them, ‘Okay, how many of those are good news?’ They all smile or laugh, which means pretty much zero. The…
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How do you decide when to give up on a movie or book? Last year I watched 7 movies. And I read 15 books. So based on last year, if I live to 75, I have 294 more movies that I’ll watch, and 630 more books that I’ll read. That’s not really that many. And an even better way to really…
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This was the best ever scene in That 70s show. Over the past few years, my fiancee and I have watched that scene so many times, and every time we laughed that I was Kelso and she was Jackie. It’s actually the other way around (well, kind of). I’m only 12 days away from getting married. And I’m not really…
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This is a good movie. It’s got Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig and it’s about a guy who’s never done more in his life than travel to Arizona, and also to Nashville (just the airport, in transit to Arizona). It’s an inspirational movie. Ben Stiller knows what sells. And you can’t blame him. I think there’s only 2 reasons he…
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This is Snufkin. He’s one of the characters from Tove Jansson’s amazing cartoon, The Moomins. The Moomins is set in fictional Moomin Valley where he and the Moomin family and their friends live. These are a few of the reasons I like him, wish I was more like him and am similar to him, for better or worse: • Snufkin chases…