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Pigeon: Impossible

Posted by Anne on February 22nd, 2010

Pigeon Impossible, the silent animated film by Lucas Martell released on 9 November that took 4 years to make, passed the 1 million views mark on YouTube after less than 2 weeks online. The film is set in the neighborhood of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., where two of my nieces and I [...]

Crying in my coffee

Posted by Anne on February 20th, 2010

Writing can be a lonely and frustrating business. Writing for online learners of English as I do is particularly tricky: I don’t get much feedback from my readers. As my employers are very busy, asking them to review and edit my work is not always possible. But that means that any errors I make and [...]

Question: Why do you write? Why don’t you write?

Posted by Anne on February 7th, 2010

Why do you write or blog? If you don’t write or blog, why not?
I finally called off my blog project yesterday after reading the Pew’s Report on teens not blogging and twittering. (Summary in Mashable) The reasons given for the lack of interest which I, too, have experienced in the group of people I approached [...]

The iThing

Posted by Anne on January 27th, 2010

I broke my vow not to hang out on Twitter. Well, I had a fun conversation about the iTablet iThing Apple is unveiling today, asking what people thought it should be called. I thought iPad would work. Andy H thought they should go with iLash, or iShadow, iBrow, or iDrofoil. The iDrofoil? a waterproof version? [...]

You can subscribe to Grammar Guru

Posted by Anne on January 25th, 2010

I tend to put random musings into this blog. If, dear reader, you want to subscribe just to the features you like, you can! Some of you might only like Grammar Guru, or songs, or the podcast, or the short films, or teaching. Subscribe selectively by going to these pages:

Grammar Guru: http://annehodgson.de/category/grammar-guru/feed/
Question podcast: http://annehodgson.de/category/podcast/feed/
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Question: Inspired by a fault?

Posted by Anne on January 24th, 2010

Django Reinhardt was born 100 years ago yesterday. He lost the use of the third and fourth finger on his left hand when the family caravan caught fire, and as a result developed his own unique style of guitar playing.

Seriously inspirational, that is. Can you remember any other artists in any genre who became who [...]

Question: Can you disengage from social networks?

Posted by Anne on January 13th, 2010

Late last summer Chris invited me to get on the luddite bandwaggon and drop Twitter and Facebook. Chris is a blogger and makes videos, so “luddite” is somewhat relative. But here am I, having a massive change of heart after promoting the use of online social networks to my local community of teachers.
Some time ago [...]