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Journalism, Christmas, and My Obsession
Yesterday morning, I got up before the ass-crack of dawn to go with the Rose Thorn staff to Indy for the Hoosier State Press Association (HSPA) Foundation 2003 Newsroom Seminar. We ate doughnuts in the Thorn office and departed around 06:45. I decided to ride with the Thorn’s own George Dawkins, as he was stopping at McDonald’s (yuck, I know), and two doughnuts do not count as a decent breakfast. Not that grease wrapped in paper and served with orange juice is any better, of course, but my options were limited. On that note, I have to officially revise my opinion on the Thorn’s own George Dawkins. Along the way,…
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Snow!
We have our first snow here in Terre Haute, Indiana. Fucking-A. And it’s been snowing all morning. This is why I need a cam’ra (anyone else stuck in a loop of quoting Scary Movie due to its extremely detrimental effect on their lives? No? Okay, then…). I could be posting pictures and stuff. I don’t know what the “stuff” part of that would be, but I would definitely be chewing up some Rose-Hulman bandwidth with pictures. Oh, and ahem. I can’t even form a strong opinion about the book other than a bland “how interesting”. Now I get to start Letters from an American Farmer by Crèvecoeur, finish Dune, and…
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Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko
Oroonoko is the story of an African prince tricked into slavery by an English captain and taken to the colony of Suriname. In the process, he is separated from his lady love, only to be (un)surprisingly reunited with her in the New World. Oroonoko, a proud, noble, and heroic man, must choose between life and slavery, or death and freedom. This book is… interesting. I didn’t so much like the book as find it fascinating from a historical perspective. It is written by an English woman, Aphra Behn, for a popular English audience, about an African in America. The book interestingly combined European romance style of writing of the 17th…
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Oh, Yeah!
Some completely crazy nut sent me the complete set (Seasons 1, 2, and 3) of the Fox show Family Guy. I say “completely crazy nut” because he knows I’ll just take a weekend and watch the whole damn thing, and resume walking around “Oh, yeah“ing everyone to death. Tsk, tsk, Miguel. In other news, I’m feeling sympathy and compassion for a fellow blogger with big toe issues. I want to sign up for anti-clumsiness classes, too. I sure as shit need ’em. My big toe has a huge lump just below the middle “knuckle”, and any attempts to bend it (without using my hand) causes excruciating pain all the way…
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So, whatchu bin searchin’ for?
I have been doing some mad Internet searching lately. Some of the questions to be answered: Who is Noam Chomsky? This may seem like a trivial question for more educated folks, but I have never heard anything other than passing references to his name, often in a critical context. I have George to thank for renewing my curiosity regarding Chomsky. Basic biographical and bibliographical information can be found at his MIT site. While this is nice for learning that (big surprise) he’s a famous linguist and involves himself in “intellectual history, comtemporary issues, international affairs, and U.S. foreign policy”, it didn’t cough up any information on why he’s so controversial…