When the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the United States in March 2019 and we all went into a lockdown, Steven Soderbergh's Contagion jumped to a top spot over various streaming platforms. I didn't choose to watch it then--I opted for Netflix's Tiger King (which, coincidentally, dropped its second season yesterday)--but I made a point …
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More than “Just a …”
So I almost started a podcast about teaching. No, really. I was in my fourth block last week and while my students worked on a reading assessment, I spent a good half hour filling Post-It notes with the outline, format, and topics for a podcast called Ninth Period, which would be conversations about being a …
The Week in Uncollecting, 11/1/21-11/14/21
This is really a multi-week update because I've been "compiling" reviews in my notebook for a few weeks now. Plus, my most recent "weeks in ..." have been horror-themed and war-themed multi-review posts instead of one of my usual ones, so this is making up for that. Despite this piling up, there's not too much …
The #WarComicsMonth in Uncollecting
It's November, and for the uninitiated, that means it's War Comics Month (shout out to Luke Jaconetti, btw). I'm a fan of comics of all genres, and while I don't own a ton of them, I do enjoy a classic war book; heck, I did an entire podcast on one. And with a pile of …
Uncollecting Update October 2021
As always, let’s get started with the numbers … Media consumed # (remaining/total)Physical Comics Read: 11 (42/53)Digital Comics Read: 3 (472/539)Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 2 (40/73)Books Read: 2 (114/174)Movies Watched: 4 (103/146)TV Seasons Completed: 0 (90/101)TV Shows Completed: 0 (28/38)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 201 A quick note that the total for physical comics has changed because I had been zeroed out for a while and now I have a small pile because …
The Spooks in Uncollecting, 10/31/21
Again, it's been a while since I have posted anything, but seeing as it's Halloween, I thought I'd write about the spooky/horror stuff that I've been clearing out of my lists lately. Now, I'm not a huge horror fan. I dabble in some movies and books throughout the year and like to read at least …
Personal Archaeology 20: The Relationship, The Old Girlfriend, and the End of the Paper Trail
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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