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I am not a comic book geek. I do, however, like super heroes and love my four-year-old. This video set is ever better than the Superfriends DVDs (that I remember from my childhood). From the late 60's it is absent the uncomfortable culture change content that haunts the Superfriends. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the culture has changed, but as any teenager can tell you....change can be awkward! Anyway, good set of episodes...and I had no problem with the content for my preschooler. Best-
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This memoir explores Ms. Ingman's tough post-partum haul, as a new Mom suffering from a baby with multiple mystery-issues and with her own post-partum depression. I found this book useful on several levels. On the most personal level, I found it instructive to read it after my own first year of BABY was over. I too had a tough first year, though without the depression that Ms. Ingman suffered. However, her experiences and reflections helped me make sense of some of the feelings I had that first year. On another level, Ms. Ingman's exploration of post-partum depression on a societal-level was illuminating. I appreciated her call-to-arms (so to speak) asking mothers to seek common ground and to be supportive of one another, rather than to seek out flaws in others. Also, Ms. Ingman is pretty raw and funny. I really recommend this one, especially to those mothers and fathers who found the first year of BABY to be a real challenge. This author has a hip, singlular voice that I encourage you to experience.
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When I was reading this little tome that explores (through, the artiface of Carl Wilson, the author, exploring why he viscerally hates the music of Celine Dion) what exactly is "taste" and the implications that taste has for art experience, our society, our concepts of democracy & coolness, etc., I kept thinking, "Man, I want my Mom to read this." Not only is it a pleasingly mind-blowing book due to its interweaving of ideas like those of Kant and Bourdieu and an explaination of the cultural context of Celine Dion in an ever increasingly global media marketplace, but I thought that my Mom should read it because it would be a short-cut way of explaining some of the depth (both negative and positive) of why, for example, I do not like certain things. Even in my adult life, when I've gotten over some of my hang-ups on "cool" (I remember telling her when I was a teenager that even the way she said cool was uncool.) I still find that there is this chasm between us when I express my preferences for certain things. It is almost as if I am unable to explain and she is unable to grasp why we might differ, or why I might even think such things that have never entered her mind. Then I started thinking, "Man this book is brilliant...I should remember to reread it when my kids are teenagers." Then I thought, nah, it will be out of date then. As if Mr. Wilson were reading my mind when he wrote this book, I got to this line, "When we do make judgements, though, the trick would be to remember that they are contingent, hailing from one small point in time and in society." Exactly. So, Mr. Wilson or someone needs to make this book into a college class...so when the time comes, one of your students can put some thought into taste and culture and explain my kids to me! Also, I might add, that the fact that Carl Wilson put himself, and those of us like him (or at least somewhat like him), under the microscope so ruthlessly made the analysis all the more compelling. Mr. Wilson, you are not the ugly American, and not just because you are Canadian, it is because you paused to consider that you might actually BE the ugly American. Cool book.
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Dc Super Heroes:filmation Adventures (Full Screen)
BarrettChilds, May 12, 2009
I am not a comic book geek. I do, however, like super heroes and love my four-year-old. This video set is ever better than the Superfriends DVDs (that I remember from my childhood). From the late 60's it is absent the uncomfortable culture change content that haunts the Superfriends. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the culture has changed, but as any teenager can tell you....change can be awkward! Anyway, good set of episodes...and I had no problem with the content for my preschooler. Best-(1 of 2 readers found this comment helpful)
Inconsolable by Marrit Ingman
BarrettChilds, September 3, 2008
This memoir explores Ms. Ingman's tough post-partum haul, as a new Mom suffering from a baby with multiple mystery-issues and with her own post-partum depression. I found this book useful on several levels. On the most personal level, I found it instructive to read it after my own first year of BABY was over. I too had a tough first year, though without the depression that Ms. Ingman suffered. However, her experiences and reflections helped me make sense of some of the feelings I had that first year. On another level, Ms. Ingman's exploration of post-partum depression on a societal-level was illuminating. I appreciated her call-to-arms (so to speak) asking mothers to seek common ground and to be supportive of one another, rather than to seek out flaws in others. Also, Ms. Ingman is pretty raw and funny. I really recommend this one, especially to those mothers and fathers who found the first year of BABY to be a real challenge. This author has a hip, singlular voice that I encourage you to experience.(4 of 4 readers found this comment helpful)
Celine Dion: Let's Talk about Love (33 1/3 Series) by Carl Wilson
BarrettChilds, July 9, 2008
When I was reading this little tome that explores (through, the artiface of Carl Wilson, the author, exploring why he viscerally hates the music of Celine Dion) what exactly is "taste" and the implications that taste has for art experience, our society, our concepts of democracy & coolness, etc., I kept thinking, "Man, I want my Mom to read this." Not only is it a pleasingly mind-blowing book due to its interweaving of ideas like those of Kant and Bourdieu and an explaination of the cultural context of Celine Dion in an ever increasingly global media marketplace, but I thought that my Mom should read it because it would be a short-cut way of explaining some of the depth (both negative and positive) of why, for example, I do not like certain things. Even in my adult life, when I've gotten over some of my hang-ups on "cool" (I remember telling her when I was a teenager that even the way she said cool was uncool.) I still find that there is this chasm between us when I express my preferences for certain things. It is almost as if I am unable to explain and she is unable to grasp why we might differ, or why I might even think such things that have never entered her mind. Then I started thinking, "Man this book is brilliant...I should remember to reread it when my kids are teenagers." Then I thought, nah, it will be out of date then. As if Mr. Wilson were reading my mind when he wrote this book, I got to this line, "When we do make judgements, though, the trick would be to remember that they are contingent, hailing from one small point in time and in society." Exactly. So, Mr. Wilson or someone needs to make this book into a college class...so when the time comes, one of your students can put some thought into taste and culture and explain my kids to me! Also, I might add, that the fact that Carl Wilson put himself, and those of us like him (or at least somewhat like him), under the microscope so ruthlessly made the analysis all the more compelling. Mr. Wilson, you are not the ugly American, and not just because you are Canadian, it is because you paused to consider that you might actually BE the ugly American. Cool book.(5 of 9 readers found this comment helpful)