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Tiffany Knoell, Ph.D.
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Professional nerd. Occasional time traveler. Co-host of Silent Film Fridays on Stream.place. Associate Teaching Professor, Dept. of Popular Culture, School of Cultural and Critical Studies, BGSU. Views are my own, not those of my employer.
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Sometimes I forget just how many costumes I've made for my kids and just how often black sweatshirts came in clutch.
A late-series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine uniform top, operations division, rank of Ensign, sized for a small child. There's also an Old Republic Jedi holo-communicator on the left of the image. I've pulled that out so it can be used as a prop by the student org I advise.
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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In an unexpected collision between past work and present occupation, I realised that I contributed features to the ASIFA's journal back in 2005 and 2007. The same International Animated Film Association that I now reference when I teach about animation beyond Hollywood. It's.....a little whiplash.
Two issues of Cartoons: The International Journal of Animation. The issue on the left is open to show the table of contents. My article, "Travel The Warner Bros' Way: Travelogue Cartoons, 1938-1942" is listed right before John Canemaker's work. The issue on the right is closed, but the cover reads "volume 1, issue 2, winter 2005." Image shows the table of contents for Cartoons: The International Journal of Animation, Volume 1, Issue 2, Winter 2005. My article, "Hollywood vs. Hicksville: Warner Bros. and Disney, in the 1930s" is the fourth feature in the section.
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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I've been asking students to analyze memes and write essays on them in context of audience, era of format, and concurrent events since fall 2017, apparently. This surfaced as I've been updating my lecture materials today.
Text above image reads: "Pop culture professor: analyze a meme and write an essay on it. Me: [image response of Blinking Man]" Text below image reads 11:47pm 7 Sep 2017
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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I'm revising my lecture on memes and I really like how there's always something to learn about it.
An image of the closing scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) where a man pushes a crate on wheels down a seemingly endless corridor lined with boxes. It's apparently where one can find "top. men." to work out the mysteries of dangerous supernatural objects. There's text above the image that reads "Me saving another meme on my phone"
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Tonight on Silent Film Fridays, we've got a pair of romance comedies: Behind the Screen (1916, dir Chaplin, star Edna Purviance) and The Danger Girl (1916, dir Badger, star Gloria Swanson). We kick off at *8PM* EST over at stream.place. Join us, won't you?
Gloria Swanson, Robert Vernon, and Reginald H. Morris in a promotional image from 1916's The Danger Girl.
November 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Scritches and bliss.
My husband gives the lady Zee a face massage that makes her purr out of her nose.
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Veterans Day is coming up, so my pilot father is on my mind. The button the left wasn't his - it was in a lot of vintage sewing notions - but it still reminded me of him.
A WWII-era US Army Air Corps button and a 1980s-era pair of Army aviator wings are on either side of a patch with jump wings embroidered on it. The latter two belonged to my father.
November 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Tonight on Silent Film Fridays, we're sticking with sci-fi with A Message From Mars (1913, United Kingdom Photoplays). As an early sci-fi film, this one includes special effects right from the Méliès playbook. We kick off at 8 pm EST over at stream.place/atk42games.b... . Join us, won't you?
A black and white movie poster for 1913's A Message From Mars, describing it as a fantastical photo-drama in four parts.
November 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Boudicca made a nest in my shawl.
Boudicca the ginger girl cast peeps at me from her shawl nest.
November 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Torias is clearly having a moment.
Torias the cat is in what I would think is an uncomfortable position.
November 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Blooming in November
Yellow and orange cosmos growing taller than I am outside my office window.
November 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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If you see this, I implore you to post a pic from your device without context.
Oscar the Grouch as Diogenes
November 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Cozy November morning.
Boudicca, the ginger wonder cat, found the warmest place in the living room.
November 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Tonight on Silent Film Fridays, we're continuing in the spirit of the season with Eerie Tales (1919, Germany, dir. Richard Oswald). Come for the spooky anthology, stay for Conrad Veidt. We kick off at 7pm Eastern over at stream.place/atk42games.b... . Join us, won't you?
Reinhold Schünzel, Anita Berber, and Conrad Veidt consider their lives and their choices in Eerie Tales (1919, Germany, dir. Richard Oswald).
October 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Greetings from my house.
Torias, the fluffy tiger tabby cat boy, gives us an object lesson in the duality of existence.
October 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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So many colors in the twilight.
A view out of my second story door in the early morning hours.
October 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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My writing companion and I send greetings to all at the No Kings protests. Were I not on deadline, I would join you in person.
Boudicca, the Ginger Wonder Cat, is curled up in front of my monitor, contemplating the pens in front of her. Shortly after this was taken she decided to knock one of them off the desk and into my lap. Might have been a judgement. I'm not sure.
October 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I need hope. This helps. Chalk from BGSU campus.
Be there if you care Democracy needs your courage and our rage. Release the Epstein Files! First they came for.....
October 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Tonight on Silent Film Fridays, we're dipping into the Halloween spirit with selections from Haxan (1922, dir. Christensen). Come for the quasi-documentary, stay for the Witches' Sabbat. We'll kick off at 7pm Eastern over on stream.place (stream.place/atk42games.b...). Join us, won't you?
Illustrated movie poster for the 1922 Swedish-Danish film Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages. Shows a nude woman in a forested area reaching for a tree. There's a demon draped over the branches of the tree.
October 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Post a picture of when your pet was little.

The kitten version of the Lady Zee.
A fluffy tiger tabby kitten staring into your soul with her green-gold eyes as she lays across my lap. She has an exceptionally pink nose outlined in black and black marks that extend what looks like eyeliner away from both eyes.
October 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Ginger and not so ginger.
These two are looking past each other like they're a frame in a French New Wave film. One ginger girl cat and one fluffy tiger tabby queen cat occupy a gray couch simultaneously. It's nearly a miracle.
October 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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I just wanted to know time and temperature for roasting a butternut squash.
7. Remove from oven and allow to cool. Scoop flesh from the kin and enjoy plain or in your favorite recipes.
October 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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This is Bahama. He and I went on a walk. I finally achieved the "me and my llama" dream first introduced by Sesame Street when I was a little kid.
Bahama the Llama and I mug for the camera.
October 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Tonight on Silent Film Fridays, we're taking at trip to visit Aelita, Queen of Mars (1924, dir. Yakov Protazanov). We'll kick off at 7pm Eastern over at stream.place/atk42games.b... . Join us, won't you?
Movie poster for Aelita, Queen of Mars (1924, USSR)
October 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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One (1) ginger widget.
Boudicca, the ginger wonder cat, is on high alert. She's also very cute.
October 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM