afterMAPH » Blogroll http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/aftermaph afterMAPH is written by the staff and alumni of the Master of Arts Program in Humanities at the University of Chicago as a service to alumni to provide alumni news and announcements, as well as a discussion forum for MAPH alumni. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:53:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 graficionada: a blog about food and other nice things http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/aftermaph/2009/02/05/graficionada-a-blog-about-food-and-other-nice-things/ http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/aftermaph/2009/02/05/graficionada-a-blog-about-food-and-other-nice-things/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:22:05 +0000 Braden Grams http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/aftermaph/?p=59 Another MAPH alum, Jeanelle Hayner (MAPH ‘07), has joined the blogoshpere with a blog for budding and hardcore foodies. If you’re into food (and aren’t we all in our way?) stop by and check it out.

]]> http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/aftermaph/2009/02/05/graficionada-a-blog-about-food-and-other-nice-things/feed/ 2 Keeping us in the Light http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/aftermaph/2008/02/13/keeping-us-in-the-light/ http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/aftermaph/2008/02/13/keeping-us-in-the-light/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:53:20 +0000 Linda http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/aftermaph/2008/02/13/keeping-us-in-the-light/ MAPH Alum Joel Witmer (’07) is up and at ‘em again with his newest blog The Dark Room, a blog that discusses and reviews movies and television shows. You may remember Joel’s past fame with his Ohio sports based blog, The Disappointment Zone, and its famed appearance in the Wall Street Journal Online.

This time around, Joel has taken his other love, that of the audio visual world, and transformed it into insightful commentary, opinions, riffs, and reviews of movies and TV shows of all genres. He also lists movies he’s seen this year (alphabetically and hierarchically, of course) as well as his current NetFlix queue, just so you can keep abreast of his movie watching, note his credibility as a movie goer, as well as strike up an online conversation with him.

As with his sports blog, Joel’s commentary is well thought out and carefully presented with just the right amount of film elitism and average movie watcher humor, making it enjoyable to read often difficult to disagree with him*.

*author’s note: no matter how elegant his prose or how convincing his analysis is, I shall never agree with Joel about Ohio State.

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Because Jim is so adept at words, I will leave you all with his words on Human(e) Behavior: “For those wishing to live a more examined existence, Human(e) Behavior offers a forum to ask those thorny questions that come up in the complicated web of human interaction that we call life. Socrates once said that no person would do anything wrong if he really understood what he was doing. Human(e) Behavior seeks to make that ideal a reality, reclaiming the dusty world of “etiquette” for our troubled times. Because in the end, more thoughtful living is, in fact, better living. ”

to read Jim’s blog and send him a question of your own, visit Human(e) Behavior at http://humanebehavior.blogspot.com/

Cheers to Jim for making our lives better, or at least less socially awkward.

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