This week

Wonderful to meet/reconnect with you all today. I think we are going to have fun this term.

To reiterate this week’s tasks:

• please set up your weblog and email me the URL, or leave it in a comment here
• have a look at the presentation topics and let me know what you would like to do.
• I posted today’s missing film to D2L. Not the crispest version but an engaging film, especially after the documentary we saw in class. Here is a taste:

Paul Holland: It’s easy enough to read the thoughts of a newcomer. Everything seems beautiful because you don’t understand. Those flying fish, they’re not leaping for joy, they’re jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies. The glitter of putrescence. There is no beauty here, only death and decay.

Betsy Connell: You can’t really believe that.

Paul Holland: Everything good dies here. Even the stars.

I walked with a Zombie