The Flowdown

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• Sabbatical

• London

• Newcastle University

• University of Rochester

• Frederick Douglass

• Center Church, Hartford, CT

• Fred’s website

• “Who Is Frederick-Douglass Knowles II, Hartford’s First Poet Laureate?”

• Key West, FL

• Nassau, Bahamas

• Botswana

• Eastern Connecticut State University

• Makes Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall

• Sanyika Shakur

• Spoken word

• Southern Connecticut State University

• BlackRoseCity by Frederick-Douglass Knowles II | Amazon

• Sinking in Moonlight Alone by Frederick-Douglass Knowles II

• Hip-hop

• Poetry

• Rhyme scheme

• Marilyn Nelson | Poetry Foundation

• Margaret Gibson

• José B. González

• “I, Too” by Langston Hughes

• “Harlem” by Langston Hughes

• Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT

• The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien | Bookshop.org

• Jazz

• Hartford Art School

• Bebop

• John Coltrane

• Miles Davis

• Charlie Parker

• Dizzy Gillespie

• Hard bop

• Big band

• Louis Armstrong

• The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia

• Jazz documentary by Ken Burns

• Hemingway episode 1 by Ken Burns | YouTube

• The Vietnam War by Ken Burns

• Rock and Roll

• “Macho Rock: Men Always Seem to End Up on Top” by Susan Hiwatt

• Kanye West

• Tina Turner

• Beyoncé

• Tupac Shakur

• Johann Sebastian Bach

• Albums for iOS

• Longplay for iOS

• The College Dropout

• The Low End Theory

• “In Defense of Kanye’s Vanity: The Politics of Black Self-Love” by Heben Nigatu

• Audre Lorde

• Hypertension

• Libra

• Siren: The Voices of Shelley Beattie

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• Fantastical

• The Best Password Managers to Secure Your Digital Life | Wired

• CT State Honors Program

• Caffeine

• Vitaminwater

• Dr. Pepper

• Burger King brings back Cini Minis to menu

• Root beer

• Quinebaug Valley campus | CT State

• Biology (BIO) | CT State

• Photosynthesis

• World war

• Band of Brothers

• Political Science (POLS) | CT State

• Goodfellas

• The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

• Eastern Connecticut State University

• BigBang

• Meadows Music Theatre

• K-pop

• KPop Demon Hunters

• BTS

• Study Abroad | Eastern Connecticut State University

• Sacred Heart University

• ZZ Top with George Thorogood & The Destroyers

• SeatGeek

• Sensaphonics

• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

• War of 1812

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

• Hard science fiction

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• “Fantastic Baby” by BigBang | YouTube

• NBA Jam

• Retro World Expo

• Duolingo

• WINS (AM)

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

• Anxiety

• Sunday scaries

• Post-traumatic stress

• “Blood Sweat & Tears” by BTS | YouTube

• G-Dragon

• Quizlet

• How to Become a Straight-A Student by Cal Newport

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Jeopardy!

Registered Nursing programs | CT State

ARTH 1013: Architecture of the World

Italy

England

Multilingualism

Backus Hospital, Norwich, CT

Certified Nursing Assistant

Homeschooling

Seton Home Study School

Motivation

BIO 2111: Anatomy & Physiology I

Integrity

Wolf's Den Family Campground

Monadnock State Park

Anterior cruciate ligament injury

Equestrianism

Association football

Once on This Island

Hello, Dolly!

Jesus Christ Superstar

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Hartford Stage

Death of a Salesman

The Book of Mormon

Mormonism

Heartland

New York City

Broadway theatre

Raising Cane's

French fries

Hank's Dairy Bar, Plainfield, CT

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Blue Yeti microphone

Shure Beta 87a

Shure SM7B

Shure MV7+

Lesley University

Contemplative education

Comparative religion

The Bear

Tutoring and Academic Success Center | CT State Three Rivers

Philosophy

Cosmology

Eastern philosophy

Ethics

Trolley problem

David Hume

Top Gun

CSI

Ernest Hemingway

Hyphens and Dashes | Practical Typography

Signs of AI writing | Wikipedia

Join or Die

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam

Third place

Turing test

Christianity

Islam

Fear of missing out

Montessori education

Sous-chef

Foodie

Rooster Fighter

Bass guitar

Krav Maga

Villari's Martial Arts

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Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim on Inside the Actor's Studio | YouTube

Into the Woods

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Assassins

Into the Woods: MTI Conversation Piece with Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine | YouTube

Sondheim teaches… YouTube playlist

Elaine Stritch

Parasocial interaction

Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

Meditation

Waking Up app

Hamlet

Yoga

Generation X

Millennials

UConn

Law 7891: Law and Literature | University of Connecticut

Hollywood, Los Angeles

Simon & Schuster

Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory by Peter Barry

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom

Renowned literary critic Harold Bloom on the Power of Reading | YouTube

Grammarly

Bullshit

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

ENG 1020: Composition II and Literature | CT State Community College Catalog

Mommy's Delicious Food, Norwich, CT | Instagram

Mahzu Sushi, Norwich, CT

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Twenty Thousand Hertz

Criminal

Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!

99% Invisible

“What's Up, Doc? Mel Blanc and the Magic of Looney Tunes” | Twenty Thousand Hertz

“Pew Pew! The Making of Star Wars’ Iconic Sounds” | Twenty Thousand Hertz

Looney Tunes

Marvin the Martian

Star Wars

Logan's Run

Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser trailer | YouTube

CT State Libraries

Seventh-inning stretch

Imposter syndrome

“I know that I know nothing.”

Middlemarch Madness

David Sedaris

Blood Meridian, narrated by Richard Poe | Amazon

The Prince of los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood

The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family

The Silmarillion, narrated by Andy Serkis

Three Rivers Campus Library

Singer sewing machines

IBM Selectric

Episode 18: The Memory Artist | This Is Love Podcast

Episode 19: The Wolves | This Is Love Podcast

Note: The Flowdown will be on summer break until September 2025. See you in the fall!

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Heirloom Market

Shrinking

Severance

CT State AI Presidential Fellows Program 2025 Cohort

Rhode Island College

Anthropology

University of Hartford

Public speaking

Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg

Glossophobia

"To the Student Who Used AI to Do a Paper" by Joseph Fasano | Poets.org

Center for Teaching | CT State

Dr. Miguel Cardona | Ed.gov

Costco

Victor Wooten: Words of Wisdom #9 | YouTube

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Zenyatta Mondatta

The Police (band)

Noun

Giant panda

Charismatic megafauna

Poke

Pokémoto | Groton, CT

Salute | Hartford, CT

Grass and Bone | Mystic, CT (permanently closed)

Steak tartare

Boredom

Cookie Run: Witch's Castle

Sewing

Nintendo 3DS

Pokémon

Venusaur | Bulbapedia

Lucario | Bulbapedia

Pokémon X and Y

Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow

Cetaphil Skin Moisturizers for Sensitive Skin

Vitamin D

The Secret to Enjoying a Long Winter | Kottke.org

Tick

Lyme disease

Alpha-gal syndrome

Rabies

Rat snake

Ouroboros

Garden of Eden

Judas Iscariot

Theology

Fashion

Bikini

Bikini Atoll

Hartford Denim Company

Madewell

Fast fashion

Steelcase Leap

Muji

Blackwing

Pilot G2

Pilot Juice

Uniball Signo DX UM-151

Shorthand

Duolingo

Turkish language

Insomnia

Yoga

Richard Siken

Sylvia Plath | The Poetry Foundation

Harold Bloom

Mary Oliver | The Poetry Foundation

The Bell Jar

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

Suttree

Eve Babitz

Slow Days, Fast Company

Dune

Game of Thrones

Bruvvy

“Dredd Hot” | YouTube

“Fake It” | YouTube

“Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light” by Richard Siken

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Mastodon

Electoral-Vote.com

Political Wire

Bluesky

Threads

Bird by Bird

Buddhism Plain and Simple

Tutoring and Academic Support | CTState.edu

The Autumn of the Patriarch

Streaks

Crime and Punishment

The Brothers Karamazov

Sofa

What an Owl Knows

Loop Earplugs

AirPods

Sensaphonics custom ear protection

Kiki's Delivery Service

Studio Ghibli Fest 2024

Regal Cinemas

Letterboxd

The Boy and the Heron

Hayao Miyazaki

Poetry

Sharon Olds

Louse Erdrich

Billy Collins reads "Divorce" | YouTube

Oasis app

Biobot Analytics

LifeStraw

Klean Kanteen

Nalgene

Yeti

Migraine

Love Is Blind

The Golden Bachelorette

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Moby-Dick

Harold Bloom

Tár

The Zone of Interest

Amadeus

Glengarry Glen Ross

No Country for Old Men

Goodfellas

Suika Game

The Last of Us

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Dark Souls

Demon's Souls

FromSoftware

Final Fantasy

It Takes Two

Dark | Netflix

Note: The Flowdown will be on winter break until February 2025. See you in the Spring semester!

Show notes for this episode:

Imposter syndrome

English-language learner

Otis Public Library, Norwich, CT

Anthropology

School for International Training

U.S. Embassy in Peru

English as a second or foreign language

Norwich, CT Adult Education

New London, CT Adult Education

Indonesia

Adventure travel

Lonely Planet

Jakarta

Bali

Tokyo

Islam

Hinduism

TYCA Northeast

Connecticut Foster Care

Connecticut Department of Children and Families

Running

Goat

Donkey

Chicken

Instructional Skills Workshop

Rush