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The Duppy Conqueror: Guns and Poaching
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Monday, April 8, 2013. As the national debate over gun control rages and subsides, the ineptitude of Congress is highlighted and the threat of another mass shooting continues. The media promotes and thrives in two-sided impasses like this because they can appear fair as well as contentious, attracting lots of readers and knowing the script. You hear the standard arguments on both sides (need I repeat them? Maybe we should all just blame it on Jefferson. It reminds me of a scene from Futurama: Into the Wi...
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The Duppy Conqueror: July 2012
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012. The Weight of Consumption review. Last week was a frenetic blitz of rehearsing for our ensemble dance entitled “The Weight of Consumption,” one of Pick Up America’s Denver-based art projects choreographed by our very own Kelly, featuring as accompaniment, The Recycled Peace Drum, a shopping cart behemoth of a drum recently painted at the Hanuman Festival in Boulder to resemble a Dr. Suess creation. The themes and rhythms were evocative of a tribal rain dance, and given the extre...
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The Duppy Conqueror: June 2015
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Thursday, June 18, 2015. Jurassic World Stirs Up Excitement and Moral Debates. I waited 22 years for this moment. That's almost as long as I've been playing saxophone. When I ask my students the year of their birth, and I discern they were born after the year 1993, two comments quickly come to mind. Well, that moment is here. The next generation will finally get its chance to experience the ultimate fantasy of children everywhere as Jurassic World. We should be clear: Jurassic World. Indeed, that is the ...
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The Duppy Conqueror: Print Extinction Level Event
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013. Print Extinction Level Event. Is anybody else worried about the possible extinction of paperback books? The popular rise in tablets and smartphones has predictably cut printing by nearly 10% according to some IT experts. This should make an environmentalist like myself happy, since less paper means less trees and water being used to make it. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Currently resides in Boulder, CO. Pre-service secondary English teacher AND social worker at th...
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The Duppy Conqueror: April 2012
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Sunday, April 29, 2012. Here's a little weapon I created for all my nerdy D&D friends.:). Immunity: Paralysis, Petrification, Slow. Once a Day: Silence (Lvl 2). Once a Day: Globe of Darkness (Lvl 2). Once a Day: Detect Thoughts (Lvl 2). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. The Harvest Collective Music. Lonely are the Brave. Bom Vom Surf Utility.
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The Duppy Conqueror: January 2012
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012. Origins of the word ‘Click.’. 1581, of imitative origin; perhaps French or Dutch. Probably developed earlier as a way to corral horses,. In expressing reprimand or sympathy, or produced in audible kissing. Also, any of various stop consonants, found in Khoisan and as borrowings in southern Bantu languages, that are produced by the suction of air into the mouth. The figurative sense of "fit together" first recorded in 1915. Used as Canadian/U.S/European slang for kilometer,.
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The Duppy Conqueror: The Weight of Consumption review
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012. The Weight of Consumption review. Last week was a frenetic blitz of rehearsing for our ensemble dance entitled “The Weight of Consumption,” one of Pick Up America’s Denver-based art projects choreographed by our very own Kelly, featuring as accompaniment, The Recycled Peace Drum, a shopping cart behemoth of a drum recently painted at the Hanuman Festival in Boulder to resemble a Dr. Suess creation. The themes and rhythms were evocative of a tribal rain dance, and given the extre...
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The Duppy Conqueror: Jurassic World Stirs Up Excitement and Moral Debates
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Thursday, June 18, 2015. Jurassic World Stirs Up Excitement and Moral Debates. I waited 22 years for this moment. That's almost as long as I've been playing saxophone. When I ask my students the year of their birth, and I discern they were born after the year 1993, two comments quickly come to mind. Well, that moment is here. The next generation will finally get its chance to experience the ultimate fantasy of children everywhere as Jurassic World. We should be clear: Jurassic World. Indeed, that is the ...
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The Duppy Conqueror: Blade of Daedulus
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Sunday, April 29, 2012. Here's a little weapon I created for all my nerdy D&D friends.:). Immunity: Paralysis, Petrification, Slow. Once a Day: Silence (Lvl 2). Once a Day: Globe of Darkness (Lvl 2). Once a Day: Detect Thoughts (Lvl 2). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. The Harvest Collective Music. Lonely are the Brave. Bom Vom Surf Utility.
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