Andy Bartlett on March 29th, 2011

This is my fifth entry in a “soundtrack of my life” project — one song that is representative of each year of my life since about 1977, when I was five years old and was approximately the time when I have specific memories of music. 1981: “I Love a Rainy Night” by Eddie Rabbit Oh, [...]

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Andy Bartlett on March 28th, 2011

“Should an official school Twitter account participate in Follow Friday?” This is a question I had while pondering my first ever Follow Friday (#FF) post on the official Twitter account I maintain for Bemidji State University, @BSUNews. I initially didn’t know why I hadn’t participated in the past, but as I worked on the post [...]

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Andy Bartlett on March 22nd, 2011

This is my fourth entry in a “soundtrack of my life” project — one song that is representative of each year of my life since about 1977, when I was five years old and was approximately the time when I have specific memories of music. 1980: “The Imperial March,” by John Williams “The Empire Strikes [...]

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Andy Bartlett on March 14th, 2011

This is my third entry in a “soundtrack of my life” project — one song that is representative of each year of my life since about 1977, when I was five years old and was approximately the time when I have specific memories of music. 1979: “The Gambler,” Kenny Rogers Not really much to say [...]

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Andy Bartlett on March 11th, 2011

“Summer” movie season kicks off tonight with “Battle: Los Angeles.” I’m going to go catch a late show at 9:30, after everyone in my family who would hate this movie (i.e., everyone) is asleep. I don’t really have any sort of level of expectations for this movie; it will basically need to succeed on two [...]

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Andy Bartlett on March 7th, 2011

This is my second entry in a “soundtrack of my life” project — one song that is representative of each year of my life since about 1977, when I was five years old and was approximately the time when I have specific memories of music. 1978: “Main Title,” by John Williams: The “Star Wars” theme [...]

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Andy Bartlett on March 4th, 2011

I’ve been out of town for a couple of days at a marketing and communication conference hosted by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system office in St. Paul; third one of these I’ve been to in my four years since moving over from the sports information director job here, and it was by far [...]

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Andy Bartlett on March 1st, 2011

This was the biggest drawing I’ve bitten off in maybe 20 years (and that’s not really an exaggeration). Now that it’s finished and I’ve had about a week and a half to reflect on it, it’s time for a post mortem. The vast majority of the things I’ve drawn in my life have been done [...]

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