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There are two articles about Lost in today's USAToday, one of which can be considered a spoiler for a prop that is shown for less than a minute. (You can define for yourself how spoilery that is.)
Yesterday Islogged through bitched massively about watched the premiere of Kolchak. What the hell is this crap and why did they bother even attempting to make it anything like the Night Stalker? Everything that made the original show interesting was gone. Gone the seedy integrity, dogged determination and experience, all replaced with some snotty too-young whippersnapper. Gone the humor in the face of darkness. Gone even the explanation for WTF was going on. A pox on it. May cheesy 70s vampires hunt down the producers, may the writer have something with a huge radiating eye come up through his basement, and may the bright person who got the idea to put a beloved name to this pablum be sacrificed on an Incan alter in the middle of a football field.
Academic
Set "Argumentation" back and picked up "Victorian Britain" by Dr. Patrick N. Allitt, whose colorful academic history includes Oxford, UC Berkley, Harvard Div, and Princeton before settling down at Emory. His voice is clear and vivacious, making him interesting to listen to and easy to understand, and I like his accent (neither the posh BBC-speak nor Cockney gutter but something more like Michael Palin). Worlds better than the argumentation guy!
About half of the 36 lectures are on events such as the Industrial Revolution, the Opium Wars, the Boer War and the Indian Mutiny, while the rest cover social areas such as literature, education, leisure, etc. There are two lectures on women, one for middle and upper class, and one for lower class.
It's early in the course yet, but I'm enjoying Dr. Allitt's style so much that I'm leaning towards getting more of his Teaching Co. classes. He does 4:
- American Identity (currently on sale)
- American Religious History (this sounds particularly interesting to me, and ties in with the missionary project)
- History of the United States, 2nd Edition (currently on sale, an ambitious 84-lecture History of Everything American done in tandem with two other professors)
- and, obviously Victorian Britain (also currently on sale)
Because I got my copy from ebay, I cannot assess the included booklet because it wasn't actually included.
Personal
I had the bright idea of getting M tickets to Wicked, except every single performance sold out in the first day. I knew it would be popular but I didn't expect *that* - I'm hoping that this means an extension of what would have been a ludicriously short run.
Also, my boss is a devotee of the "drop 'em in and see if they swim" theory of training; she's off on vacation and I get to jockey the next proposal without help. It's terrifying me, even though it's an itty-bitty one.
There are two articles about Lost in today's USAToday, one of which can be considered a spoiler for a prop that is shown for less than a minute. (You can define for yourself how spoilery that is.)
Yesterday I
Academic
Set "Argumentation" back and picked up "Victorian Britain" by Dr. Patrick N. Allitt, whose colorful academic history includes Oxford, UC Berkley, Harvard Div, and Princeton before settling down at Emory. His voice is clear and vivacious, making him interesting to listen to and easy to understand, and I like his accent (neither the posh BBC-speak nor Cockney gutter but something more like Michael Palin). Worlds better than the argumentation guy!
About half of the 36 lectures are on events such as the Industrial Revolution, the Opium Wars, the Boer War and the Indian Mutiny, while the rest cover social areas such as literature, education, leisure, etc. There are two lectures on women, one for middle and upper class, and one for lower class.
It's early in the course yet, but I'm enjoying Dr. Allitt's style so much that I'm leaning towards getting more of his Teaching Co. classes. He does 4:
- American Identity (currently on sale)
- American Religious History (this sounds particularly interesting to me, and ties in with the missionary project)
- History of the United States, 2nd Edition (currently on sale, an ambitious 84-lecture History of Everything American done in tandem with two other professors)
- and, obviously Victorian Britain (also currently on sale)
Because I got my copy from ebay, I cannot assess the included booklet because it wasn't actually included.
Personal
I had the bright idea of getting M tickets to Wicked, except every single performance sold out in the first day. I knew it would be popular but I didn't expect *that* - I'm hoping that this means an extension of what would have been a ludicriously short run.
Also, my boss is a devotee of the "drop 'em in and see if they swim" theory of training; she's off on vacation and I get to jockey the next proposal without help. It's terrifying me, even though it's an itty-bitty one.
