Posts tagged ‘myth’

This past weekend, I traveled to New Britain, Connecticut for Mythcon 39, the annual conference of the Mythopoeic Society. I heard some good papers on mythopoeic literature and attended panels that provoked some good conversation on myth and fantasy. Read More...

Last summer, I re-wrote my "Song of Kaikeyi" poem using the epic meter of Milton. It was accepted for The Mythic Circle, the fiction anthology of the Mythopoeic Society: my first piece of published fiction. Read More...

I have published the second issue of Journey to the Sea. The first article is an extension of my thoughts from last summer on Satan in Paradise Lost, and the second explains the meaning of the name Journey to the Sea. Read More...

The culmination of a summer filled with promising comic book movies came with the release of The Dark Knight. I saw this movie opening night. Though it was by no means perfect, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Read More...

When I saw the trailer for Hellboy 2 earlier this summer, I was surprised at how good it looked. I had ignored the first Hellboy movie, but after seeing the trailer for the second one I decided to give it a try. Read More...

Halfway through the year, and I have been meeting my goal to spend more time studying myth. I am happy to announce the first issue of my new web site, an online myth magazine, which contains two articles I have written. Read More...

I have made quite a few changes to my site's structure and content to reflect my updated personal tagline (Randy Hoyt: Myth Enthusiast and Web Developer). I wanted to point one new page in particular -- Myth: A Definition. Read More...

This book by Joseph Campbell about mythology and personal transformation caused me to think long and hard about my own bliss. Read More...

Paradise Lost Study: I have been studying this work by John Milton for a few months now, and it has provided much insight into epic poetry. Read More...

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• 04/27: I had the opportunity to give a presentation at the April meeting of the Dallas/Fort Worth WordPress Meetup group this weekend. Here’s the introduction:

  In this presentation, Randy Hoyt demonstrates the techniques, page templates, and plugins he uses to power the multiple-author functionality on Journey to the Sea, the online myth magazine he edits in WordPress. Learn More »

  I have added to my site a narrated screencast of the content, a software package for download with all the code modifications, and links to all the online resources I mentioned. It’s not the exact same narration — I re-recorded it after the meeting — but the video is the same and the narration covers all the same material:
  Presentation: Multiple Authors in WordPress
  —— This group was established last March after the first WordCamp Dallas conference, a local event devoted to all things WordPress. The  group has met monthly all year to promote and prepare for a similar conference in 2009. I have been attending the meetings and offered to speak at the April meeting this past weekend. Before the meeting, I made a screencast of me applying these techniques to a standard blog theme. During the meeting, I played that video over a projector and narrated it for the group. I was quite happy with how it went, and I received some positive feedback on the presentation from some of the attendees. I met a few people whom I’m looking forward to discussing other local WordPress-related opportunities in the future.
• 04/14: Non-Linear Movies
• 04/07: OU Sooner Basketball
• 04/02: AFI Dallas