Jaq Greenspon's Blog, page 58
March 10, 2015
March 7, 2015
Learning
When I was younger (and maybe not so much younger) I tried to learn from everyone and everything around me. Tossed off comments by people who knew more than I did became like little nuggets of intellectual gold I would horde. Lessons I was shown once, when it came to things I was interested in, […]
March 6, 2015
Awards…
So yesterday I won an award. Was nominated for four. I was voted by the student body at Vytautas Magnus University��a likely candidate to be the funniest professor, the best orator, best foreign professor and best all around professor. I took home the prize for Best Foreign Professor. This time around the award��was a large […]
March 4, 2015
DAVID ��� Think: Travel App-titude
DAVID ��� Think: Travel App-titude. This month in David, I’m putting my vast knowledge of travel to the test when I give you my thoughts on some of the cool connection apps out there to cover all aspects of your trip. In addition to my piece, there’s all sorts of great reads to be found […]
February 28, 2015
But is it Good?
Recently, while discussing the new Wachowski film Jupiter Ascending, my friend Gregory said “I sometimes don't know what people expect from movies anymore.” This got me thinking about what I expect from movies. The answer is more complicated than I thought. My first reaction, being a writer, was I wanted a coherant story. Except that's […]
February 27, 2015
The Strange, Hidden Story of Harley Quinn — Vulture
The Strange, Hidden Story of Harley Quinn — Vulture. Really great piece about comics, heroes, villains, and what people need from them.
February 25, 2015
Review: Heroes and Legends: The most influential characters of literature
Heroes and Legends: The most influential characters of literature by Thomas A. Shippey My rating: 4 of 5 stars One of the things I like about The Great Courses series is the lectures are all 30 minutes or so, which makes them easily digestible. I have several of the courses (or others like them) in […]
February 22, 2015
Review: Kingsman – The Secret Service
From the opening scene onwards, there is almost no way to not understand this film is a love letter to the spy/thriller films of the 80s and 90s. And if you still don’t get that by the end of the film, you should have your License to (watch) Film revoked. There is just as much […]
Book Collecting
So it appears I’ve become a book collector. To be clear, I’ve always been a book accumulator. There’s never been a time in my life when I didn’t have shelves and shelves of books at my disposal. I learned to read in kindergarten in Albuquerque (a classroom of one, I had progressive parents) and was […]
February 18, 2015
Review: The Storyteller
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult My rating: 5 of 5 stars Like a finely braided challah (the bread baked for the Jewish sabbath), Jodi Picoult weaves an intricate tale of redemption and forgiveness, identity and masks, and relationships of all sorts. And she does it all with a certain lightness, never getting heavy handed with […]
