Video Fridays: Sundance Film Festival: Short Film Tour & Great Stories
Short films can be like good short stories in that you have to have a good story or engaging...
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Author: joe.bustillos
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Two Old Rugs Survive Their Trip Outside [a short story]
baseball bat on rug I woke up thinking about an old rug, it kind of looks like it’s being hung up...
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Crash Course Religions
It’s taken me over a year to watch and reflect on this 24-episode series that explores the...
Read MoreVideo Mondays: Spinal Tap II: The End Continues(??)
I saw that my favorite local theater, The Beverly Theater, was having a single day special showing...
Read MoreVideo Fridays: Eleanor the Great & Asking Why Are We Still Here
I wanted to catch this one in theaters, and given how quickly movies come and go, especially...
Read MoreCrash Course Religions #24: Religions and Pop Culture: Fandom, Fiction & Truth
This series, Crash Course Religions, began by asking what makes a religion a religion, noting the...
Read MoreVideo Fridays: How the digital revolution is killing books | Out of Print: More Here Than Dead Tree Media
This 2013 documentary popped up in my feeds and I find that there’s something quaint about the...
Read MoreCrash Course Religions #23: What Does Religious Freedom Mean? A Problem When Multiple Bubbles Collide
I love how Crash Course Religions just jumps right in on the deep end of a question and doesn’t...
Read MoreVideo Weekends: Terry Gross: Live Your Life, Live Your Life, Live Your Life.
This one popped up in my podcast feed last weekend. Apologies for a second Terry Gross/Fresh Air...
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Dee, Friendships & The Delayed Departure/Dismissal [A Short Story]
Friendships seemed simpler in the past. In the third grade I noticed this blonde kid on the bus...
Read MoreCrash Course Religions #22: Visions of the End of the World & One Personal Expiration Date
I think I just wrote on this subject a couple weeks ago (Click HERE for previous article). ...
Read MoreVideo Fridays: Logical Song & Three Bonus Covers
I don’t know about you, but I could use a musical break with a couple kid-led bands, and old...
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Running Around In The Park [A Short Story]
They do so much with so little. A little girl, her shoes in one hand and purple plastic bowling...
Read MoreCrash Course Religions #21: What Does Race have to Do with Religion? And You Can’t Learn from a Past That You Deny Exists
While the idea of “race” can be understood as a human invention, the need to be able to identify...
Read MoreVideo Fridays: Eighth Grade & All Its Awkward Beauty
They nailed it. Having spent my last three years teaching Middle School and a total of six years...
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