BillHeise | August 20, 2011
My friend, Ruth, posted a link to this article on Facebook this morning with a note expressing her approval. In the article, Ellie Herman, a teacher at the Animo Pat Brown Charter High School in South Los Angeles, expresses her concern over the lack of funding once showered on the California School system. She argues [...]
BillHeise | April 3, 2011
So I’ve signed off of Facebook, and I told you why a few days ago. Today, I want to tell you why I switched to Twitter as a better social network for my purposes. The reason is simple: I have had bad (bad, bad, bad, bad, bad) experiences on both sides of the political aisle. [...]
BillHeise | March 22, 2011
I took Facebook off my daily login of sites. I will check back every couple weeks, but I thought I would explain why. Most of my most active Facebook friends were posting things about politics. I maintain that I am not political and have friends on both sides of the political spectrum. I reserve the [...]
BillHeise | March 7, 2011
I went to see the Chicago Shakespeare Company’s presentation of As You Like It last night. It is a fabulous play, and I was recommending it to my friends on Twitter (follow me at @WilliamHeise) until I realized that last night was the last performance. As You Like It was the subject of one of [...]
BillHeise | March 5, 2011
I had a thought this morning, so I thought I’d share it with you. I was thinking about how I don’t want to get murdered, because if someone murders me, then my life is over. You probably are concerned with getting murdered, as well, so we have that as common ground on which to build [...]
BillHeise | March 3, 2011
For anyone who is curious why I like to combine comedy with my deeper thoughts (if there are any) in Poker Tales, it’s because I wasn’t a very good student until I was 17. Then I learned there there were serious thinkers thinking serious thoughts. But 3 years earlier I had discovered the following Monty [...]
BillHeise | February 6, 2011
Towards the end of last year, I finished watching 150 westerns in preparation for a future project. But, as I did when I watched 150 film noirs, I saved a few choice bits for last because I knew that my pace of watching so many movies would leave me exhausted. I was too tired to [...]
BillHeise | November 23, 2010
I said the other day that I if you’re not listening to Limbaugh that you’re missing one of the chief drivers of the election cycle and the culture in general. Limbaugh, like his political opponents, is driven by the desire to sort the world into those who are with us and those who are against [...]
BillHeise | November 21, 2010
I consider myself an intellectual, so, yes, I expect some blowback to my assertion that I listen to Rush Limbaugh. Even my conservative parents, who agree with him on economic issues, can’t stand him. They think he’s too conservative on social issues and too full of himself in general. They prefer Dennis Miller, who is [...]
BillHeise | November 16, 2010
I was advised very early on in graduate school that if I wanted to get a job I would have to do some original work. So, weighing my options, I slowly settled on the impact of Aristotle on the development of allegory (I know, how cool am I?). But I came to my interest in [...]
