{"id":1006,"date":"2008-04-11T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2008-04-11T02:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T02:50:00","slug":"running-on-fumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1006","title":{"rendered":"Running on Fumes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the course of a discussion which begin with the how-to of inserting video clips into blogs, some of my students and I watched the following:<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Steamboat Willie<\/a>,” the original 1928 Mickey Mouse cartoon, in which Mickey was much more rat-like and nasty than today’s dumbed-down, cuter, and neotonous<\/a> version. Not to mention that the chewing-tobacco part is so un-PC.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The “Now is the winter of our discontent” speech scene<\/a> from the 1930s-fascist version of Richard III<\/em><\/a>, the one starring Ian McKellen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Several of them had already seen it in Professor B.’s Shakespeare class, but they were ready to see it again. As for me, the opening scene<\/a> of that film — the teletype<\/a> machine — held me spellbound when I first saw it. (But I was thinking, “Run, dog, run!” very soon.)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jeff Dunham doing his “Achmed the Dead Terrorist<\/a>” routine, holding the jihadists at bay with laughter.<\/p>\n

I was the only who did not already know about Achmed. What will I do for popular culture when I stop teaching?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the course of a discussion which begin with the how-to of inserting video clips into blogs, some of my students and I watched the following: \u2022 “Steamboat Willie,” the original 1928 Mickey Mouse cartoon, in which Mickey was much more rat-like and nasty than today’s dumbed-down, cuter, and neotonous version. 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