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Michelle Janning

Michelle Janning

Writer, Sociologist, Speaker, Observer of Social Life.

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Tag: Game of Thrones

Between Game of Thrones Season 1 and Season 8, Watched Between May 1 and May 16, 2019

I am a Game of Thrones novice. By shirking some responsibilities and staying up late, I found 75 hours over the last sixteen days to watch the entire series. On Sunday, May 19, I am heading out of the country for a few weeks for work (to Denmark, where I hope to run into Jaime… Read More

Posted onMay 16, 2019Tagsbinge watch, Game of Thrones, spoilersLeave a comment

Between Game of Thrones and Murder, She Wrote

This and dozens of other essays are compiled in the book Between: Living Live in Neither Extreme. Check it out! Death on TV is nothing new, but we all have our thresholds of seeing what it looks like. I made it to the second beheading in Game of Thrones* before I said to my husband… Read More

Posted onApril 13, 2016May 28, 2017TagsGame of Thrones, Murder She Wrote, TV Violence3 Comments

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Left: me in front of the Commodore Hotel where we stayed on our honeymoon 25 years ago.
We are retracing our honeymoon from 25 years ago. First stop SFO.
The stories of the 2 pieces of art that stuck with me years after I first saw them are both Canadian stories of immigration, indegenity, and integration of old/new, bold/quiet, art/craft, and home/not-home. The first is by Sonja Kobrehel. I bought it after getting tenure. I saw it in Montreal months beforehand. The second I just got today from Neal and Aaron. It is by Mark Preston. I saw it years ago in Victoria with Jennie Steffens, then saw again, then could not stop thinking about it. Now these stories are both in my living room. Happy early birthday to me.
Maybe next book? I have so much data and plenty of uncertainty about whether it will tell a coherent story. The pandemic threw a wrench in the publishing path originally planned. We will see what happens next when I reframe it.

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