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Sins of the Father

The Batman (2022) is another cinematic launch of the titular character. This version is a sad reflection of the current American zeitgeist. Robert Pattinson portrays a broken and desiccated thing: skinny, sexually repressed, with disheveled hair and runny mascara. This Batman isn’t a cavalier playboy hiding his dark persona, he is a brittle shell of vengeance.Continue reading “Sins of the Father”

Gödel and Einstein: Friendship and Relativity

This is a post copied whole cloth from an article by Palle Yourgrau as he was marketing his (then) recently published A World Without Time (2006). There have been any number of articles about both of these incredible thinkers. Despite a biting criticism (reposted in full at the bottom of this page) of Yourgrau’s book, IContinue reading “Gödel and Einstein: Friendship and Relativity”

KOSHINAGE

In class I presented three basic forms of koshinage from shomenuchi ikkyo. To start, assume the kihon response for ikkyo, but because uke was not controlled through the arm alone, uke starts to stand. Nage therefore responds by closing the gap (entering) while using the hand once on uke’s elbow to take uke’s hip, loadContinue reading “KOSHINAGE”