I don't know the exact date that Kate and I officially broke up, but it was 25 years ago right before I was about to head off to my sophomore year college, and while I know that the end of our relationship caused me an enormous amount of pain, I barely wrote about it in …
Personal Archaeology 19: Applied
"Erika 9 typewriter" by shordzi is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 I'm helping my seniors with their Common Application essays in my AP Lit class. This is, I fully admit, one of my favorite things about the beginning of the school year. It's an assignment that helps me get to know them but also lets me put on my …
Uncollecting Update September 2021
As always, let’s get started with the numbers … Media consumed # (remaining/total)Physical Comics Read: 0 (0/411)Digital Comics Read: 0 (475/539)Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 9 (27/58)Books Read: 2 (113/172)Movies Watched: 4 (106/145)TV Seasons Completed: 1 (90/101)TV Shows Completed: 0 (28/38)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 165 It's a little easier to do this wehn you are zeroed out in one category; then again, there's the size of the other piles. Plus, SEptember was overwhelming …
Books, Trades, and Graphic Novels in Brief, 9/1/21-10/1/21
Aliens: Hive: One of the original Dark Horse series that came out after Earth War, which was the final one I bought. I probably had every intention of keeping Aliens going but didn't have the money, to be honest, because Dark Horse's comics were $2.50 in the early 1990s. Anyway, this was enjoyable but I …
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Films in Brief, 9/1/21-9/21/21
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films Ever Made Part 2, Horror and Sci-Fi and Part 3, Comedy and Camp: I enjoyed the first parts of this and was eagerly waiting to watch the other two. Part 2 is the gem of all three because of its focus on genres that for years were on the …
Check Me Out on “Dial F for Flanger”!
Paul Hix (Waiting for Doom, DCOCD, The Gary Show) recently had me on his podcast Dial F for Flanger. Over the course of the show, I got into the background of The Uncollecting, my collecting habits, and we also talked about getting older and what's going to happen to our stuff after we leave. It …
Uncollecting Update August 2021
As always, let’s get started with the numbers … Media consumed # (remaining/total)Physical Comics Read: 14 (0/411)Digital Comics Read: 0 (475/539)Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 7 (28/49)Books Read: 6 (115/172)Movies Watched: 6 (108/143)TV Seasons Completed: 2 (91/101)TV Shows Completed: 0 (28/38)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 136 So it's been a while since I posted anything, and that's because …
The Week in Uncollecting, 8/2/21-8/14/21
Yeah, I realize that's two weeks, but I didn't get a post in last week, so it's big update time sorta. I'm winding down the summer (in fact, I go back to work on Monday) and while I can say I have accomplished my podcasting and writing goals (for the most part), there was a …
Personal Archaeology 18: That One Summer
Part of my 1994-1995 scrapbook project. At left: an essay about being in Paris. At right: a page of all of us taking pictures of each other taking pictures at the top of The Arc De Triomphe. Among the three notebooks (and several folders of MS Word files) I have left from my personal journal …
Personal Archaeology 17: When I Was A Teacher Blogger
On my phone, there's a screencap from an old Innovative Educator post that begins "The unspoken truth about teaching writing in school is that few people doing so are writers themselves."* The first two paragraphs of the post I screencapped. I removed distinguished characteristics of the blog, but you can Google all of this to …
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