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Comment on Reading Week Soirée by Shanika

Shanika — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:21:46 +0000

thursday/olive mountain sound perfect – i’m there.

Comment on Reading Week Soirée by cleanslater

cleanslater — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:46:04 +0000

So it looks like Thursday is our best option – we were thinking maybe going to Olive Mountain for dinner, unless someone would rather host something at their apartment (sadly, Catherine, Lauren and I live in sorority houses). Thoughts?

Comment on Using Our Blog to Procrastinate by Tom Hayden

Tom Hayden — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:16:39 +0000

I always meant to post this video essay I found on procrastination. It’s pretty swell:

New Jersey smells great, btw!

Comment on Using Our Blog to Procrastinate by jbresland

jbresland — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:02:40 +0000

catherine, that’s fanTAStic!

Comment on Using Our Blog to Procrastinate by lkelleher

lkelleher — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:11:24 +0000

YES!

Comment on Using Our Blog to Procrastinate by Catherine Kennedy

Catherine Kennedy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:07:04 +0000

“arguably the most evil form of nonfiction”

So true. So very, bitterly evil.

Hell yes to the proposed gathering.

Here’s a link to figure out when everyone has time to get together:

http://doodle.com/bvimrurap6u7cu9p

Comment on They tried to make me go to rehab and I said, Fine. by Shanika Gunaratna

Shanika Gunaratna — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:34:39 +0000

I’m excited to hear this, if you choose to read it out loud in class.

Also, these lines are loaded with meaning: “I was there during monsoon season so about once every two weeks the sky would crack open and rain would pour heavily for a few hours and then the flowers would bloom. Patients used the sharp pricks of cacti to hurt themselves. It was really bizarre.”

Comment on Edumacation by jbresland

jbresland — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:36:34 +0000

This sounds promising. Especially because you don’t know where it’s going. That’s essential to a good piece of work, i think.

Comment on They tried to make me go to rehab and I said, Fine. by jbresland

jbresland — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:54:32 +0000

I like it. I almost think a lynchpins approach might make sense for this project — all the defining moments of Food Rehab. You could link those moments to something institutional about that program — or not. Either way, it sounds like rich territory.

Comment on Shallow Vanity? by jamesgallagher

jamesgallagher — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:48:14 +0000

I could not agree more with your theories on Lyrics essays.
I battled with exactly what they were. I think the middle ground is the way to go.

I think of them as poems and instead of one word, you replace each word with an idea in a sentence or two, and in the stringing of them they take on meaning. How you do it, language wise and all this, I don’t this is unimportant.

I’ve said all this to say that I agree with you.

Plus I’m excited to read your essay. I often wonder how what we all see as them same can mean so many different things, literally how the same person, or the same person’s nose can be seen in an infinite number of ways, aka by an admirer, by one who is recently in love with the nose-holder, by one who has been in love with the nose-holder for a long time, by the self, by a hater, by a plastic surgeon, by a voodoo witch doctor. Roll with it, it sounds good.