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  • Photosynthesis!

    Last year I did some work for a non-profit called CAST Inc. that develops technology to be used in education. I’m very excited to be able to go give a […]

  • Finale of Life is where Love is

    So, today is the finale of my WCN piece Life is where Love is. This was a very special piece for me. Throughout high school, I had been working on […]

  • Thoughts on a visual e/i-language

    Big breath; prepare for a long post… Most of the time, people think about languages as being “out there in the world” – consisting of a conventional list of words […]

  • Talk at PCA

    For those in the Boston area (like me), I’ll be speaking at the annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association National Conference. My talk will be on the “comics theory’ […]

  • Hartmann on Air America

    I’ve recently heard the news that Thom Hartmann, author of my illustrated book We the People: A Call to Take Back America, is replacing Al Franken on Air America Radio. […]

  • Housecleaning

    What with my winter break coming to a close, I’ve been tending to some general housecleaning issues. I’ve recently updated my selection of “notable” blog posts as well as the […]

  • LSA and Reductos

    The last week has been utterly crazy driving up and down California visiting friends. I spent last weekend at the Linguistics Society of America conference, where I randomly ran into […]

  • Sand Talk

    I’ve frequently mentioned in my writings about sand narratives created by various Australian aboriginal communities. This article from the Transient Languages & Cultures blog at the University of Sydney has […]

  • Mannerism, Imitation, and Iconic Bias

    Dirk (who kindly keeps linking to my posts) provides some thoughts on my last post about imitation by describing “Mannerism” (about halfway down the post). He describes the Renaissance Mannerists […]

  • Imitation is bad!… in the immediate

    This post over at CBR had an interesting take on some of the Art vs. Language issues that I discuss, so I felt I should link to it. One of […]