Listen to The Literary Life: Our hosts are back on The Literary Life podcast today to continue our series on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. This week we are covering chapters 12-17, and in the introduction to this episode, Angelina, Cindy and Thomas discuss the purpose of the Gothic novel in reorienting us to realize there is more to the world than the physical and empirical. As they cover the plot in these chapters, other ideas shared are the effective blending of modern technology with ancient wi...| The Literary Life
Listen to The Literary Life: Welcome back to The Literary Life podcast today and our series on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. This week Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins, and Thomas Banks cover chapters 8-11 of the book. Angelina explains both the “New Woman” and “Angel in the House” ideas of the Victorian era and makes some observations about Dr. Seward’s interactions with Renfield in contrast to the nuns ministrations to Jonathan Harker. We are also introduced to Dr. Van Helsing in this ...| The Literary Life
Listen to The Literary Life: On The Literary Life Podcast this week, our hosts continue with part 2 of their series on Bram Stoker's Dracula. After sharing their commonplace quotes, Angelina, Cindy and Thomas begin discussing how to properly read Dracula and other books written in this tradition. (Hint: It's not the Freudian or psychoanalytical| The Literary Life
Listen to The Literary Life: On this week’s episode of The Literary Life Podcast, Angelina Stanford is joined as always by Thomas Banks and Cindy Rollins for the opening of their series on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Today our hosts focus on the background and historical context for this piece of literature, as well as going over the highlights of the first two chapters. They talk about the question of the role of the monster in literature in modernity versus its historical interpretation. U...| The Literary Life
Listen to The Literary Life: Today on The Literary Life podcast Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks continue their two-part series on Christina Rossetti's narrative poem "Goblin Market." They begin discussing this poem by connecting it with the larger conversation on art and the literary tradition, pointing out the flaws of modern ways of reading. Angelina| The Literary Life
Listen to The Literary Life: Welcome back to The Literary Life Podcast! This week we begin a brief, two-episode series covering Christina Rossetti’s narrative poem “Goblin Market.” Our hosts, Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks, look at the life and family background of Christina Rossetti, highlighting her devout Christian faith as key to understanding her poetry. Thomas shares the dates for the Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite periods in terms of art and literature. Angelina asks what the f...| The Literary Life
On today's episode of The Literary Life podcast, our hosts Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks attempt to get us closer to an answer to the question "What is the literary tradition?" After acknowledging the difficulty of approaching this question, Angelina shares an analogy for understanding the literary tradition as differing degrees of ability to see.| The Literary Life
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Listen to The Literary Life: On today’s episode of The Literary Life Podcast, Angelina and Thomas are joined by Atlee Northmore to discuss film adaptations of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence. After sharing their commonplace quotes, Atlee begins outlining the history of screen adaptations of Edith Wharton’s novels, some of which were made during her own lifetime. Angelina and Thomas talk about their high standards for movie adaptations of books and how Scorsese’s film surpassed th...| The Literary Life
This week on The Literary Life Podcast we wrap up the book discussion portion of our series on Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence. Today, Angelina and Thomas begin with chapter 22, going through the significant scenes all the way to the end of the book. They talk about the ways in which this book is an elegy, as well as the continued glimpses of “the family” as the main character. They also discuss the ways in which May shows herself to be more cunning that she pretends in contrast to...| The Literary Life
Welcome to The Literary Life Podcast and our series covering The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Angelina and Thomas open with their commonplace quotes, then begin discussing the events and characters of this section of the book. Some of the ideas they build on this week are the challenges to social conventions, the many| The Literary Life
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There's a new stretch keyword that we can use for CSS height and width properties. But how is that different from 100%? And how is that different from 100vh when we want a full-height layout?| OddBird
On today's episode of The Literary Life podcast, Angelina and Thomas will be talking about the milestones of a reader's literary life. This episode developed in response to the many questions they've received over the years about challenges people face throughout their reading lives. They begin by thinking back to childhood and recalling the first| The Literary Life
Learn how to declaratively add behavior to buttons with the Invoker Commands API. Join James Stuckey Weber and Miriam Suzanne for a live conversation with special guest Luke Warlow, Web Platform Engineer at Igalia.| OddBird
Join Miriam Suzanne, Stacy Kvernmo, and special guest Alan Stearns -- typography enthusiast, co-chair of the CSS Working Group, and self-described CSS Panjandrum -- for a conversation about typography. Responsive Typography has been around for at least a decade in various forms, but has become even more popular with tools like Utopia.fyi, Fluid.style, Typetura, and more -- all relying on the latest CSS units and math functions. But there are still a lot of questions worth asking.| OddBird
If you read the title, you know that today we’re going to talk about my top 5 tips for switching to a vegan keto diet. The full podcast version of this post is available below and on iTunes and Stitcher, so you can listen if…| For Eat's Sake
On December 17, 1996, the W3C published the first standard for CSS, and we celebrated the anniversary on Winging It! Michelle Barker, Stephanie Eckles, Kevin Powell, and Henri Helvetica joined us for our "CSS Is Awesome" game. If you love CSS as much as we do, we hope you will play along as we battle it out to see who is AWESOME.| OddBird
What happens when you set out to categorize every API and property of the web? OddBird has been documenting CSS for the Web Features project. Join us as we explore some fascinating rabbit trails, edge cases, and insights into the web platform that we've encountered along the way.| OddBird
In July we talked with Stephanie Eckles about how (and why) you can get started working grids into your CSS toolkit. As requested, this is part two of our dive into CSS grids. We address your questions about strategy -- demoing how we plan and apply grid layouts, starting with a design and implementing in the browser.| OddBird
Web Components are a polarizing feature that seem simultaneously old news and not quite ready for production yet. But we’ve been making things with Web Components, and finding some areas where they really work well. Join us, along with special guest Zach Leatherman of 11ty, to hear more about how we’re using them, what they work well for, and why we’re excited about them.| OddBird
We talk with Stephanie Eckles -- the brain behind ModernCSS.dev and SmolCSS.dev -- about CSS grids. We look at a few of the most common grid patterns, to show you how (and why) you can get started working grids into your CSS toolkit!| OddBird
First things first. I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which I live, work, and record Pillow Talking. Here, in the land known as the Cardinia Shire, which was never ceded, it is the Bunurong and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. I recognise their connection to and care of this land, and as a migrant I thank them for the space I love and share with those I love. I invite you to do the same on the land on which you live. Maybe even find out a little more abo...| Pillow Talking.
First things first. I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which I live, work, and record Pillow Talking, and invite you to do the same on the land where you stand. For me, in the lands of Cardinia Shire, it is the Bunurong and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. I recognise their connection to and care of this land, which was never ceded, and as a migrant I thank them for the space I share with my family. I pay my respects to Elders past, present, and still t...| Pillow Talking.
First things first. I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which I live, work, and record Pillow Talking, the Bunurong and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. I recognise their connection to and care of this land, and thank them for the space I share with my family. I pay my respects to Elders past, present and still to come, and extend that respect to all First Nations people who are listening.| Pillow Talking.
It’s the festive season. Well. It’s a festive season. So many festive times in this land in this day and age, and it’s bloody marvellous. But this is my festive season. Stretching from the 24th of December, with Noche Buena which is my Christmas, on Christmas Eve, all the way through to the 6th of January, Dia de Reyes, The Kings Day. As in – we three kings from Orient are, the magi, the wise men. It’s a date officially known as the epiphany: the event when these men found the Chris...| Pillow Talking.
First things first. I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which I live, work, and record Pillow Talking, the Bunurong and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. I recognise their connection to and care of this land, and thank them for the space I share with my family. I pay my respects to Elders past, present and still to come, and extend that respect to all First Nations people who are listening.| Pillow Talking.
First things first. I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which I live, work, and record Pillow Talking, the Bunurong and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. I recognise their connection to and care of this land, and thank them for the space I share with my family. I pay my respects to Elders past, present and still to come, and extend that respect to all First Nations people who are listening.| Pillow Talking.
First things first. I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which I live, work, and record Pillow Talking, the Bunurong and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. I recognise their connection to and care of this land, and thank them for the space I share with my family. I pay my respects to Elders past, present and still to come, and extend that respect to all First Nations people who are listening.| Pillow Talking.
First things first. I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which I live, work, and record Pillow Talking, the Bunurong and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. I recognise their connection to and care of this land, and thank them for the space I share with my family. I pay my respects to Elders past, present and still to come, and extend that respect to all First Nations people who are listening.| Pillow Talking.
First things first. I’d like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which I live, work, and record Pillow Talking, the Bunurong and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. I recognise their connection to and care of this land, and as a 20th century migrant I thank them for the sacred space I share with my family. I pay my respects to Elders past, present and still to come, and extend that respect to all First Nations people who are listening.| Pillow Talking.
Wil Hansen is the co-founder and chef at White Pepper, an award-winning catering company in Portland, Oregon. With a commitment to locally-sourced, seasonally-driven ingredients, White Pepper is reimagining what it ...| At The Table
