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the rhetoric of uncool (or, FYC is stuck in a past of paper)

Elizabeth Kleinfeld — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:03:00 GMT

At the end of his book The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media, Jeff Rice asks a series of interesting questions: Is writing still the dominance of alphabetic notation, or does writing include imagery as well? Is writing the teaching

R.B.O. the-semester-is-almost-overness

Elizabeth Kleinfeld — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Lately the random comes more easily to me than the non-random, so here are more random bullets. Lily, knowing that she shouldn’t say a curse word, spelled out shit in a conversation the other day, the same way T and I spell things out when we d

to do in the next two days

Elizabeth Kleinfeld — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:24:00 GMT

The end of the semester is in sight, which is both a good thing (I’m tired and would love to get caught up on sleep, not to mention I need to get my garden in order, finish Donald Hall’s memoir of life with Jane Kenyon, which I began a mo

book meme

Elizabeth Kleinfeld — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:14:00 GMT

Seen at Parts-n-Pieces. The rules: Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. Find Page 123. Find the first 5 sentences. Post the next 3 sentences. Tag 5 people. He is his mother’s son. The boy who accepted the money from him is a

book reviews coming soon

Elizabeth Kleinfeld — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:51:00 GMT

I did a lot of reading this summer and want to blog about some of the books I read in the next few weeks, including Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond Baking Boot Camp: Five Days of Basic Training at The Culinary Insti

the day is off to a phenomenal start

Elizabeth Kleinfeld — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:51:00 GMT

How much more fabulous could today possibly be? My repaired Capresso arrived late yesterday afternoon, meaning that first thing this morning I had the best cup of coffee I’ve had in weeks. Weeks. I found this beyond amazing book cataloging Webs

Alias Grace review

Elizabeth Kleinfeld — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:48:00 GMT

I finished Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace last night, reading the last 200 pages in one sitting—not taking breaks for body functions or even to turn the light on when the sunlight coming in the window became dim--because I just couldn&rsqu

The Penelopiad

Elizabeth Kleinfeld — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:12:00 GMT

I finished Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad last night. The book tells of the experiences of Penelope and her maids during Odysseus’s 20 year absence from Ithaca. (Digression: When I was in the 5th grade, my class did a performance of Ody

categorizing and labeling books

Elizabeth Kleinfeld — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:15:00 GMT

I wrote recently about organizing all of our books (and mentioned that there were two boxes of books in the crawl space that I was choosing to ignore—I just found a third box). Being the spreadsheet-loving person that I am, I naturally made a s

732 books organized at last

Elizabeth Kleinfeld — Thu, 31 May 2007 17:52:00 GMT

My husband and I moved into our current house in November 2007. We unpacked kind of haphazardly and just got used to things being the way they were. Slowly, we’ve been putting things where they actually make sense (like umbrellas being near the

model intro

Elizabeth Kleinfeld — Mon, 28 May 2007 05:34:00 GMT

I am reading Jared Diamond’s Collapse and think I want to use the prologue as an example of a strong introduction in my composition 2 classes in the fall. The introduction does a number of things well, such as outlining the book’s ba

summer reading list (in progress)

Elizabeth Kleinfeld — Tue, 08 May 2007 22:41:00 GMT

Non-Fiction Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat 28 Stories of AIDS by Stephanie Nolen Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade and How We Can Fight It by David Batstone Fiction Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha

book meme

Elizabeth Kleinfeld — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:24:00 GMT

from New Kid, months ago 1. One book that changed your life? Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing. When I first read it, I was probably 22 or so. I had heard of feminism, pat

a couple completely unrelated thought-provoking quotes

Elizabeth Kleinfeld — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 06:59:00 GMT

the last stanza of Stephen Shu-ning Liu's poem, "My Father's Martial Art": But don't retreat into night, my father. Come down from the cliffs. Come with a single Black Dragon Sweep and hush this oncoming traffic with your hah, hah, hah

Duane Hopwood

Elizabeth Kleinfeld — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:28:00 GMT

Saw Duane Hopwood at the Duane Hopwood completely changed my opinion of David Schwimmer. I saw the first couple seasons of Friends and found it very entertaining and thought Schwimmer was an excellent Ross. And my view of Schwimmer never changed—I

prepping The Big Lebowski

Elizabeth Kleinfeld — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:59:00 GMT

Here's a review with an analysis of the film's satirizing of voiceover narration

Bird Trauma

Elizabeth Kleinfeld — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:17:00 GMT

Ever since I read and saw The Birds, I've been noticing how sinister birds really are. I used to think birds were my friends. There was even a strange year when I saved three birds, in three different random incidents, from certain death. But now I s

prepping Fear & Loathing

Elizabeth Kleinfeld — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:32:00 GMT

Reviews: Here

prepping The Big Sleep

Elizabeth Kleinfeld — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 01:37:00 GMT

Here's some trivia about the film

Prepping Clueless

Elizabeth Kleinfeld — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:20:00 GMT

In preparing to teach Clueless in Film & Lit on Wednesday, I've come across these discussions of Clueless as an interpreation of Emma: "Emma in Los Angeles" "Reviving Emma in a Clueless World" "Truths Universally Acknowle