While reading the aforementioned Thomas Harris, I decided to pick up another, similar writer who I am so far enjoying very much: James Patterson. Right now I am reading his The 19th Christmas, which very skillfully walks a fine line between thriller and comedy. A great, great mystery novel in the fashion of those of us library-types who like mystery novels! I could easily read every word the man has written, and I just might. Patterson wrote the novel which was the basis for the (I thought) terrific film Along Came a Spider, which I saw but forgot to review. Great stuff! My retirement is shaping up nicely!
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Hannibal and Clarice
I'm almost done with Thomas Harris's Hannibal, which I'm happy to say is a great book that is taking my reading habits in some interesting new directions. I have a lot of respect for Thomas Harris, especially his way with characters such as of course Hannibal and also Clarice Starling. These are great, classic characters, some of the best ever. I eagerly await CBS' Clarice series that is soon coming out, where we will finally get to see more media on Clarice Starling (and from the looks of things, in the vein of Jodie Foster). Check them out!
Great Scorsese films celebration list
Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Casino, Bringing Out the Dead, The French Connection, Badge 373, French Connection II, Gangs of New York, Shutter Island, Salt, Hugo, Alone in the Dark, The Transformers series.
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Favorite movies
David Fincher, Martin Scorsese, French Connection series, Badge 373, Shutter Island, Salt, Hugo, Alone in the Dark, Transformers series, Psycho series, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Red Dragon.
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Monday, September 28, 2020
Sunday, September 20, 2020
Favorite writers
Charles Dickens, George R. R. Martin, China Mieville, Erik Larsen, David Grann, Slavoj Zizek, Dennis LeHane, Brian Selznick.
Friday, September 18, 2020
The Card Counter
Did anyone catch that news article that said that Martin Scorsese helped direct Paul Schrader's The Card Counter? It's interesting that now there are those secret Scorsese films (the other is Badge 373). I wonder if it will have his distinctive style. Does anyone else plan to see these films?
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Favorite movies
The French Connection, Badge 373, French Connection II, Shutter Island, Salt, Hugo, Alone in the Dark, The Transformers series.
Friday, September 11, 2020
Sunday, August 30, 2020
Favorite books
Favorite books: 1. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 2. Timequake
by Kurt Vonnegut 3. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon 4. Game of Thrones
by George R. R. Martin 5. Shutter Island by Dennis LeHane 6. Devil in the White
City by Erik Larson 7. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann 8. Shutter
Island by Christian De Metter 9. The Passion of Martin Scorsese by Annette
Wernblad 10. Martin Scorsese: A Retrospective by Tom Shone
Friday, August 28, 2020
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Saturday, August 15, 2020
Monday, August 3, 2020
Saturday, August 1, 2020
Favorite books
Favorite books: 1. The Poems of William Blake by William Blake
2. The Portable Marx by Karl Marx 3. Ulysses by James Joyce 4. Benighted by
J.B. Priestley 5. Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut 6. 100 Operas And Their Stories by
Henry W. Simon 7. The Works of John Barth 8.The Road by Cormac McCarthy The
Last Days of New Paris by China Mieville 9. The Works of Nichola Wil 10. The
Passion of Martin Scorsese by Annette Wernblad 11. Shutter Island by Christian
De Metter 12. Martin Scorsese: A Retrospective by Tom Shone
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Thursday, July 23, 2020
The Shutter Island series
Ever notice that Shutter Island and Salt both feature a character named Ted? I did, and I'm not always sure it is a coincidence. The whole thing, the Seth MacFarlane Ted films included, plays like a video game, where you try to pin down the character's origins and relationships to other films. It left me with this list of my favorite of those films and the other films that it makes me think of:
1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2. Psycho 1998
3. Casino
4. Shutter Island
5. Salt
6. Hugo
7. Alone in the Dark (very underrated, plays just like an epic videogame)
8. Inland Empire
9. The Transformers series
What did everyone else have? What did you think?
Is Scorsese retiring? I never though I would celebrate it like this......
The Hannibal series
I just rewatched the Hannibal series on DVD, and am currently rereading the books. While I would not put them up there with Scorsese, they are a great series of movies and books. Even Manhunter, while it initially might seem a little dated, really is a great movie with atmospheric white interior and nighttime visuals. Red Dragon is equally good, the whole thing looking like a living room, and The Silence of the Lambs has similar strengths, has the best performances, and all around is the best by far. I even like Hannibal, different though it is, and Hannibal Rising, which in some ways features Hannibal at his most active and fatal. A great, great and underappreciated series. Check them out!
Friday, July 17, 2020
Resume Ted Gentle
Dr. Edgar
Cuthbert Gentle IV
“I think, therefore I am.”
-Rene Descartes
genec121@yahoo.com –
(205) 470-0221 – tedgentle.blogspot.com – https://www.facebook.com/ted.gentle
https://letterboxd.com/ - https://muse.jhu.edu/ upon membership
- https://www.researchgate.net/ - https://www.academia.edu/
Education
The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
Fall
2007-Fall 2008
U.S. News and World Report Ranking: #28
in Library and Information Studies Programs
Master of Library and Information
Studies
Major: Library and Information Studies
Graduate Assistantship, 2007-2008
Alumni Heritage Graduate Scholarship,
2007-2008
Appointed Graduate Teaching Assistant
to Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library, McLure Education Library, and the School of
Library and Information Studies
The University of Tennessee (Knoxville, Tennessee) Fall
2004-Summer 2006
U.S.
News and World Report Ranking: #57 in English Graduate Programs
Master
of Arts
Major:
English
John C. Hodges Fellowship, 2004-2006
Appointed Graduate Teaching Assistant to the
English Department and the Judith Anderson Herbert Writing Center
British Studies at Oxford (Oxford, England) Summer
2003
Times Higher Education World University
Ranking: #1 in World Universities
Certificate
Major: English
Rhodes College (Memphis, Tennessee)
Fall
2000-Spring 2004
U.S. News and World Report Ranking: #53
in National Liberal Arts Colleges
Bachelor of Arts
Major: English with a Concentration in
Creative Writing (Fiction)
Presidential Scholarship, 2000-2004
·
Nominated to be a Writing Center Tutor
by Professor Gordon Bigelow, 2003.
·
Dean’s List, 2003.
Jefferson County International Baccalaureate (Irondale, Alabama)
Fall
1996-Spring 2000
Newsweek Ranking: #1 National High
School in 2005 and consistently high ranked
International Baccalaureate Diploma
Major: History
National Honor Society Scholar
Professional Development
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) Fall 2018-Present
U.S. News and World Report Ranking: #3
in National Universities
MIT OpenCourseWare
Medical Transcription Editor Program, Career
Step (Lehi, Utah) Fall
2017-Summer 2018
Program Completed
Major: Medical Transcription and
Editing
Personal Information
Heredity:
Son of a
Rhodes Scholar.
IQ:
148
Education:
Student of renowned educator Martin
Chambers (“Mr. Chambers”).
Occupational Skills
Skilled in Microsoft Office in all
areas. Fluent in French, currently
studying Spanish, and open to other languages.
Full-time Experience
Pizza Hut Summer 2018-Present
Delivery Driver
- Supervise
transition to new order delivery system, saving the restaurant over $2,000
a year.
- Supervise
younger employees and systemized complex projects into manageable tasks.
- Acting
manager in the manager’s absence.
- Weed
materials in the restaurant library.
- Prepare and
deliver pizza and other meals to various residences in and around Pell
City, Alabama.
- Work with
funds and bills received.
- Provide
exceptional customer service.
- ServSafe
Certified.
- Winner of the
Best Attitude Award, 2018.
Pell City Board of Education Fall
2018-Present
Substitute Teacher
- Provide
course-related classroom instruction to elementary, middle, and high
school students.
- Drafted
protocol for selecting, acquiring, cataloging, and cancelling services.
- Earned proxy
administrator privileges to better resolve electronic access issues.
- Performed
troubleshooting on faculty and staff machines.
- Update school
system website to improve functionality and user interface.
- Provide
instructional support to special education students.
- Provide
detailed work with math, reports, and statistics.
Autumn Torch
Fall
2016-Present
Librarian and Professor
- Provide top
of the line writing assistance for master’s theses, dissertations, final
papers, blogs, and other projects that need to use language to its maximum
effect.
- Instruct
clients on use of library systems.
- Supervise
delivery of materials for client requests.
- Supervise a
team in compiling and editing footnotes.
- Offer
creative writing, film, and literary criticism classes.
- Using a
collection of online and in-person ready reference materials, provide
reference and research support to clients.
- Provide
webmastering support to clients using Adobe Captivate and Adobe
Dreamweaver CC.
- Everything
else, please ask!
Gentle, Turner, Sexton, and Harbison LLC Summer
2013-Summer 2018
Paralegal
- Served the
information and technology needs of the four Partners, three Associates,
five Accountants, four Paralegals, and over five hundred clients of the
firm by using programs such as Google Scholar, the Jefferson County
Library Cooperative, and the Alacourt, Casemaker, Lexis Nexis, and Westlaw
databases.
- Outreach to
internal and external partners.
- Developed and
conducted audits, investigations, and trainings.
- Audited human
resources records.
- Wrote, edited
grant applications.
- Wrote
strategic and analytic briefs.
- Researched
case law.
Emporia State
University
Fall 2009-Fall
2012
Reference and Instruction
Librarian and Associate Professor
·
Worked the Reference Department Desk and provided reference services
in-person, over the telephone, and through email.
·
Worked with academic library databases such as Academic Search Complete,
Business Source Complete, Communication and Mass Media Complete, ERIC, and
HeinOnline Government, Politics & Law for Academics.
·
Provided Collection Development services to the Business, Communication,
Education, and Theater Departments.
·
Investigated potential employees and nominees.
·
Researched laws, rules, regulations, and policies.
·
Wrote formal and informal internal reports, briefs, and memoranda.
Summer
Experience
Emmet O’Neal Library
Summer
2007
Page
·
Organized and shelved books in the Children’s, Young Adult, and Adult
sections of Emmet O’Neal Library.
·
Organized events for the Children’s Department.
·
Located items for patrons using the Online Catalog of the Emmet O’Neal
Library.
Professional Memberships
- Member,
Modern Language Association, Fall 2018-present.
Performed career research using the
Modern Language Association website.
- Member,
National and Student Chapters of the American Library Association, Fall
2008-present.
Member of Reference and User Services
Association and the Library Instruction Round Table.
Service Activities
·
Student, Business Administration,
Education, English, Library and Information Studies, Public
Administration, and other fields
offered in various freely available online content offered through Alabama Virtual
Library, Google Scholar, IFLA-L, Library Instant Messager where available, ResearchGate,
and YouTube.com. I also use content
available through Amazon.com and Google.com.
·
Reviewer of Faculty and Faculty
Publications, Amazon.com, RateMyProfessor.com, and RateMyTeacher.com, Fall 2004-Fall
2019.
Reviewed former Professors and Teachers and
their texts on these forums.
- Alabama
Wildlife Center, Spring 2016-Fall 2017.
Volunteered to take care of wounded
animals including birds, ducks, and fish.
·
Book Reviewer, The Emporia Gazette, Spring 2009-Spring 2012.
Summarized and reviewed nonfiction and
fiction books.
- Editor, Staff
Writer, and Submissions Judge, Cereal
Info, Sou’wester, and The Southwestern Review, Fall 2000-Spring
2002.
Wrote,
edited, and distributed articles and literary works.
·
President and Vice President, Rhodes
Scholars’ Bowl, Fall 2002-Spring 2004.
Organized and presided over the daily affairs
of the Rhodes Scholars’ Bowl team.
·
Hollywood Celebrity and Online Poster,
1998-Present.
Contribute to www.aicn.com, www.aol.com, and
to the films Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Shutter Island, Salt, Ted, and
Ted 2.
·
Mark Chambers Martin Scorsese Research
Journal Volume One-Three.
Facebook, Inc., Google LLC, ResearchGate GmbH, and Academia, Inc., Spring
2020-Summer 2020.
A journal and anthology of creative
writing and essays.
http://tedgentle.blogspot.com/
·
“Shoddy Emporia State University programs.”
SLIS-J and SLIS-L University of Alabama
listservs, Fall 2019.
An emailed statement about my difficult
employment experiences at Emporia State University.
·
Author, American Libraries, The
Atlantic, Business Insider, Critical Inquiry, The Economic Times, Library
Journal, The Louisville Review, Nation’s Restaurant News, The New Yorker, The
Paris Review, Poetry, Reference and User Services Quarterly, The Reference
Librarian, The Southeastern Librarian, The Sun, and The Velvet Light Trap, Fall 2018-Spring 2020. In review.
Currently investigating Knowledge
and Performance Management with Paul Gentle and V. Matiukhina.
Authored business, education, and library
research, creative writing, and film and literary criticism.
·
Coauthor with Mingie Feng and Paul
Gentle. Vignettes of An American Working in China.
Currently seeking publisher.
A biography of my uncle during his time as a
Professor in China.
·
“Evaluating CamStudio and Wink Screen
Capture Programs for Library Instruction.”
Northwest Missouri State University
Conference Proceedings, Summer 2009.
A comparison and contrast of freely available
screencast and screen capture programs.
·
The Politics of Abstraction: Race, Gender,
and Slavery in the Poetry of William Blake.
The
University of Tennessee Department of English, Summer 2006.
An
examination of the depictions of slavery in the poetry of William Blake.
http://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6027&context=utk_gradthes
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