Still catching up on movies

Streaming multi-season programming continued its enticements this year, with the number of movies I watched declining again.  I finished the Sopranos, with time out for the latest season for Better Call Saul. I find myself much more likely to stop a movie shortly after it begins if it doesn't pull me in, and the list of films started but stopped is probably as long as the one below.  These are the ones that stuck. 

Ida
A Hidden Life
Shoplifters
Western
The Mustang
The Last Black Man In San Francisco
The Rider
Where is Kyra?
Destroyer
Birds of Passage
Uncut Gems
American Factory
Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Wildlife
Certain Woman
All About Eve
Mank

Books I read in 2020

Covid History Project - Student blogs

 Want to see what the student side of life was like during the Fall 2020 pandemic semester at UK?  My students in GEO 261 Global Dynamics of Health were required to keep Covid blogs to fulfill UK Core standards. Each week students provided details about their lives with Covid. They were also asked to respond to weekly prompts presented and discussed in their Friday recitation meetings. Are US college students at a competitive disadvantage because of the disruptions caused by Covid? What happens if one country 'wins' the vaccine race?  How should vaccines be distributed? What are the ways in which Covid is global as well as local? How have memes been used to convey the politics of Covid? These are some of the topics the students reflected upon with this activity. However, it was their individual entries that captured the way in which this global pandemic was not only one shared experience, but many different ones. I was surprised by how many of the students had or were exposed to Covid. And of course, there are student lives not represented here because their economic precarity kept them too busy to make regular contributions to their blog or they were just unable to go to school this semester. Those are the stories that need telling as well. These student blogs below, as well as the best entries from each of the 200+ students in my class, were uploaded into the UK Library's archiving program In This Together. My colleague in the Department of Geography, Nari Senanayake, is teaching GEO 261 in Spring 2021 and plans to continue this archiving initiative. Thanks to my TAs this fall, Aleks Craine and Michael McCanless for helping with this project. (I wonder how long it will be before I will have to take this post down because someone will decide that the content in this blog does not follow the formal or informal politics of information disclosure.)

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More music I came across in 2020

 A side effect of the pandemic, and as last year, thanks to WFMU and Todd-O-Phonic Todd, Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock, and Suzy Hotrod on Rock-n-Roll Roller Derby. A noisy, frenetic guitar gets my soul to vigor. 

50kaitenz:  1976    
Mr Teenage:  Kids
Bee Bee Sea: Daily Jobs
Tyler Keith: Born Again Virgin
Tommie and the Commies: One Arch Town
The Exbats: Everybody Loves My Mom
Jet Boys: I Wanna Be With You
The Ovens: Weekend's End
Slush: Middle Name
The Cavemen: Boyfriend
Neutrals: Personal Computing
Fun Time Objects: This is Your Future
The Chats: AC DC CD
The Chords: Maybe Tomorrow
The Gizmos: The Midwest Can Be Alright
Teen Cobra: Christina
Roger C Reale and the Rue Morgue: I Can't Control Myself
Rubber City Rebels: I Don't Wanna Be a Punk No More
Kurt Baker: She Don't Really Love You Dude
The Whiffs: Hey Little Anne