(1) These were my thoughts as a senior on his graduation:

( Tribute: A memory of encounters )

...then it might not hurt to go a little green. :)


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Jon has long held that my classroom humor is akin to that of Conan O'Brien: nerdy, hyper-reflexive, and self-deprecating. I reckon that it's a defense mechanism; I prefer laughing at myself before others can laugh at me. To be sure, I've always been afraid of public opinion about me. I imagine there would be many great intellectuals who would tell ( Read more... )

Conformity can be fun. :) So here goes mine...
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...but I'm sure she'll be an amazing PhD dissertation adviser. This is one of the most momentous days in my life. :)


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In conceiving the Two Step Flow Model of Communication, Elihu Katz and Paul Lazarsfeld make the mistake of dividing people into two distinct categories: (a) opinion leaders and (b) opinion followers. I certainly agree with them that our understanding of media content is filtered by certain people whom we trust because of their competence, values, ( Read more... )

To be sure, this has been the longest ongoing journal that I've had. But as is obvious in the dwindling number of entries that I have written this year, I've grown rather weary of updating it. Perhaps it's because I've lost all my previous reasons to write:

(1) I used to be Lonely Boy (N.B. I make no claims of being as cool a Lonely Boy as Dan ( Read more... )

DEFENSIVE PREAMBLE: Perhaps their interpretations might have been too close(d) and too far sometimes, but the important thing is that my students tried. And that's more than can be said about all of us in our moments of complicity and collusion. :P

Presenting:


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I looked at the mirror this morning and realized how bloated I have become over the past few months (damn you coffee and whipped cream...among other things that I've consumed :P). I also noticed that I have slipped back into the habit of not fixing up my hair (or what's left of it anyway). And it dawned on me as well that I the last time I wore a ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I went online as a gay man looking for a high school boy. Yes, you read that right. But no, I haven't decided to be a "curve" (as my students put it) and, God forbid, a predator. It was just for this super fun experiment on online identities we did for my Information Age class. Indeed, while I was busy performing gayness, my nine ( Read more... )