the groundhog day project

A one-off episode that starts with suggesting that sometimes life is its own #TimeLoop of the Week, then gets into critiquing a guy who watched #GroundhogDay every day for a year and only wrote one a…

Continuing my critique of Benesh with the digestive metaphor and the resperation metaphor in #GroundhogDay. Plus: #TimeLoop of the Week: Day Break.

continuing with Benesh and the digestive metaphor, then #timeloop of the week: Dead of Night, a movie that changed our understanding of the universe.

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Continuing a look at Benesh, the digestion metaphor, the #groundhogday effect, and whether or not phil is actually trying to become a better version of himself. #TimeLoop of the week: The Rings of Po…

exploring benesh's (2011) doctoral dissertation on #groundhogday, symbolism in hands, in lines/bars/stripes... or NOT, and seeing the forest AND the trees. Plus, #timeloop of the week: Long Beach Lan…

from pelvic tilt to cherry street, hanging out with richard henzel to time loop of the week: ghost of camp blood.

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a look into a deleted scene, phil talking to a science teacher and then watching an elementary class performing the story of the frog prince.

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Since Ramis brings up Eugene V Debs in his commentary track, here is an overview of Debs, socialism, the American Railway Union,  the Pullman Strike and the violent response from corporate and govern…

the third of a trio of entries written upon the death of Harold Ramis.

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the second blog entry i wrote upon the death of harold ramis, exploring the idea of being better.

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The first blog post I wrote upon the death of Harold Ramis, talking about his legacy and his life.

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Taking a look at the career of Harold Ramis, his bio, his credits, and his obituary.

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as the van arrives in the town square of Punxsutawney, we look at the process of getting from Danny Rubin's original script to the final revision with Harold Ramis.

time loop of the week: The Final Gi…

Discussing the life and career of Danny Rubin, with brief sidetracks into Twin Peaks Radio, Movies-by-Minutes, Michael Schulman, Groundhog Day: The Musical, and How to Write Groundhog Day.

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More on Heidi... Heida 2, then the start of an exploration of two art installations: Heidi 2 by Sue De Beer & Laura Parnes and Heidi by Mike Kelley & Paul McCarthy.

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A brief bit about the existence (or not) of Heidi II.

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Phil's need to eat, or lack thereof; his physical fitness; and what dressing up as The Man With No Name means as a metaphor.

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#clinteastwood
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describing blood sausage gets me sidetracked with benesh and the digestive metaphor in #groundhogday

phil becomes the groundhog, larry is a proto-phil, and phil and rita trade words on the way from blairsville, pa to algonquin, il, to woodstock, il

reading the opening scene from the final revision of the script (and a little bit from the third revision) before we get to minute 6 of the film next episode