Brian Condrey's Academic Weblog
Friday, May 20, 2005
Brian Condrey's Spring 2005 RHE 306 Course - UT Austin
I've linked all the class website projects on the main Spring 2005 Rhetoric 306 course page.
Brian Condrey's Spring 2005 RHE 306 Course - UT Austin ¶ 2:38 PM 0 Comments
Brian Condrey's Spring 2005 RHE 306 Course - UT Austin ¶ 2:38 PM 0 Comments
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
American Rhetoric Website
This is a great site for rhetoric teachers and students. Includes a huge online audio speech bank and a collection of clips from movie speeches, such as this classic.
American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States ¶ 9:19 PM 0 Comments
American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States ¶ 9:19 PM 0 Comments
Class Projects Here Soon + Grades
I'll be posting links to the group website projects tonight and tomorrow. Grades for my 306 course should be available in the morning.
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Thursday, May 05, 2005
Ann Coulter Heckler Speaks Out
The story of Ajai Raj, the English Department student who heckled Ann Coulter at her UT lecture, made national news yesterday, which says something about pathetic state of our mass media.
Poor Mojo Newswire: Ann Coulter Heckler Speaks Out! ¶ 12:44 PM 0 Comments
Poor Mojo Newswire: Ann Coulter Heckler Speaks Out! ¶ 12:44 PM 0 Comments
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
The Gimp
...is a GNU-licensed photo manipulation program. Unlike Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Fireworks, this program is free. I haven't tested it yet, so I have no idea how good or bad it might be. The screenshots, though, look promising. Information can be found here, including links to places where you can download the program.
The Gimp
The Gimp For Windows Installer Page ¶ 9:35 PM 0 Comments
The Gimp
The Gimp For Windows Installer Page ¶ 9:35 PM 0 Comments
UT English Department Student Arrested at Ann Coulter "Lecture
Cross-posted from my personal weblog. I usually try not to use this or my course pages to comment on political issues and events but because this involved an undergraduate from the English department, I figure I can make an exception. From the first-hand accounts I've read at The Burnt Orange Report, this kid was acting like an a**hole. Be that as it may, did he really deserve to be arrested?
From The Daily Texan:
Incessant heckling and shouting culminated in an arrest Tuesday night during a speech by Ann Coulter, an extreme right-wing pundit, at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.
Shouts became so pervasive during the question-and-answer session that Coulter informed the organizers she would no longer take questions if the hecklers were not silenced. For a time, the shouts were considerably lessened, until the issue of gay marriage was broached.
Coulter said she supported the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman on the basis that a good woman civilizes and inspires a man to strive for something better, leading to a question that was met with a stunned silence.
"You say that you believe in the sanctity of marriage," said Ajai Raj, an English sophomore. "How do you feel about marriages where the man does nothing but fuck his wife up the ass?
Sounds to me like this kid try to beat Ann Coulter at her own game and lost.
Burnt Orange Report: Student Arrested At Coulter Speech"
The Daily Texan: Arrest made at Coulter speech.
The Smoking Gun: Another Counter-Coulter Bust - May 4, 2005 ¶ 2:30 PM 0 Comments
From The Daily Texan:
Incessant heckling and shouting culminated in an arrest Tuesday night during a speech by Ann Coulter, an extreme right-wing pundit, at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.
Shouts became so pervasive during the question-and-answer session that Coulter informed the organizers she would no longer take questions if the hecklers were not silenced. For a time, the shouts were considerably lessened, until the issue of gay marriage was broached.
Coulter said she supported the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman on the basis that a good woman civilizes and inspires a man to strive for something better, leading to a question that was met with a stunned silence.
"You say that you believe in the sanctity of marriage," said Ajai Raj, an English sophomore. "How do you feel about marriages where the man does nothing but fuck his wife up the ass?
Sounds to me like this kid try to beat Ann Coulter at her own game and lost.
Burnt Orange Report: Student Arrested At Coulter Speech"
The Daily Texan: Arrest made at Coulter speech.
The Smoking Gun: Another Counter-Coulter Bust - May 4, 2005 ¶ 2:30 PM 0 Comments
Sunday, May 01, 2005
Ransom Center Gets Mailer Papers
Wow. Somehow I missed this announcement last week. If those snotty New Yorkers were shocked and outraged over the DeLillo deal,* what will they have to say about this?
From the Guardian (UK):
Mailer sells his papers to Texas
The American literary giant Norman Mailer has sold a vast collection of his papers to the University of Texas in Austin for $2.5m (1.3m).
Mailer, 82, has handed over documents weighing almost nine tonnes and ranging from war letters he wrote to his first wife, Beatrice Silverman, which formed the basis for his first published novel, The Naked and the Dead, to dog identification tags, sales receipts and cancelled cheques.
The collection, which was bought by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, also includes correspondence with the novelist and essayist James Baldwin on civil rights, the writer Joan Didion on literature and the poet Robert Lowell on Vietnam.
There are also a dozen finished screenplays, French aviation scrapbooks and observations on New York graffiti art.
'I have always had the most intense feelings about Texas, both pro and con. In a funny way, what I am saying about America - that I love it and hate it when it goes bad on me - I can say about Texas,' said Mailer, who lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in a speech in Austin this week.
He said he had chosen the Ransom Center because it had one of the finest collections of literary archives in America.
However, he had given considerable thought to the fact that his papers would be archived in President George W Bush's home state. He was concerned that 'some damn fool... Texas legislator could stand up and say, 'What's this Ransom library doing with that atheist Norman Mailer?'' "
*Actually, there was no real outrage over the announcement that the DeLillo papers were coming to UT, though Salon.com's indie publishing guy, Scott Thill (who has written elsewhere on all things "indy" and can be reached, as you might expect from a guy who specializes in indy culture, at his aol.com mail account) did use the announcement to take a few cheap shots at Texas, something that didn't go unnoticed by Katherine Pelletier over at the HRC.
UT's press release on the acquisition is here. ¶ 12:37 AM 0 Comments
From the Guardian (UK):
Mailer sells his papers to Texas
The American literary giant Norman Mailer has sold a vast collection of his papers to the University of Texas in Austin for $2.5m (1.3m).
Mailer, 82, has handed over documents weighing almost nine tonnes and ranging from war letters he wrote to his first wife, Beatrice Silverman, which formed the basis for his first published novel, The Naked and the Dead, to dog identification tags, sales receipts and cancelled cheques.
The collection, which was bought by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, also includes correspondence with the novelist and essayist James Baldwin on civil rights, the writer Joan Didion on literature and the poet Robert Lowell on Vietnam.
There are also a dozen finished screenplays, French aviation scrapbooks and observations on New York graffiti art.
'I have always had the most intense feelings about Texas, both pro and con. In a funny way, what I am saying about America - that I love it and hate it when it goes bad on me - I can say about Texas,' said Mailer, who lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in a speech in Austin this week.
He said he had chosen the Ransom Center because it had one of the finest collections of literary archives in America.
However, he had given considerable thought to the fact that his papers would be archived in President George W Bush's home state. He was concerned that 'some damn fool... Texas legislator could stand up and say, 'What's this Ransom library doing with that atheist Norman Mailer?'' "
*Actually, there was no real outrage over the announcement that the DeLillo papers were coming to UT, though Salon.com's indie publishing guy, Scott Thill (who has written elsewhere on all things "indy" and can be reached, as you might expect from a guy who specializes in indy culture, at his aol.com mail account) did use the announcement to take a few cheap shots at Texas, something that didn't go unnoticed by Katherine Pelletier over at the HRC.
UT's press release on the acquisition is here. ¶ 12:37 AM 0 Comments
