responses to sample essay

In an effort to preserve the fine spirit of cognitive dissonance, I will be arguing against my own statements in the four letter word response. Sample U, Part 5 "Visual presentations need to be ordered in a more careful manner than textual presentations. Images need to be shown in a sensible way, with sensible of time between each one to allow the viewer to establish meaning." First, this should read "with sensibility of time". Also, it presents an entirely dogmatic view of how visual arguments need to be presented. This worked for me, in the context of a narrative argument, however for the projects that did not have a narrative, the images could have told their story in different orders. And more, I don't know how the idea that visuals need to have more attention paid to order than text, but that is clearly incorrect. text means nothing without order, saying "the dog laughed" is a lot different than saying "dog laughed the".

Shelley, You are whack, son.

Well. Don't think we're going to get along, Shelly Jackson. Or whoever you are.

When I was younger and thought that I was really edgy and insightful I would write things like Stitch Bitch: The Patchwork Girl, by Shelly Jackson. But I certainly wouldn't publish them... This text is a strange philosophical venture into the idea of writing in hyperspace... I think.
Truthfully I had trouble following with the throughline. Basically, Shelley offers up several propositions as the sections of her piece. Examples include "BOUNDARY PLAY We don't think what we think we think." "AGAINST HISTORY It was not how they said it was." she goes on and on in Confusing circles about how nothing is as we believe and we must think of things as different or non existent or opposite. You know, the things that any basic eighth grader who thinks she is an existentialist or Nihilist because she doesn't know the difference or what either even means would just eat right up. Questioning beliefs! Undoing the dogmatic structures of thought! But now as a college student 5 years after eighth grade really I can't make sense of this piece of writing and I am just frustrated. Maybe I was smarter then. Or maybe this article is senseless. Probably the former, and I am looking forward to talking about this and figuring out what she actually meant in class today.

This is only a test

I'm testing out blogging from Microsoft office instead of inside my blog itself… let's see if it works?

please work...

This movie was made with windows movie maker, and it makes the argument of waiting as a potentially rewarding, frightening, and devastating endeavor.

yay!

FOUR! FORE!

for any o' y'all havin' trouble with some four-letter-word-searchin'.

A LIST!

http://www.scrabble.org.au/words/fours.htm

Making Sen(se)tences

A sentence starts out like a curtain
Closed in a crowded theater and as the lights are dimmed there is an uneasy, delicate air of discomfort.
The sentence begins too late and too soon all at once. The performance is greatly anticipated, so the ache of wait is too much in the still mist of a desirous audience. The thin veil breaks among the crowd as the curtains crack, and the fear intensifies.
It begins with a stutter, perhaps. A flub. awkward rhythm.
It begins with a need for editing but there is no going back
And the writer must work with the start they are given.
It begins with a nervous audience and a crack in confidence, and continues regardless. It gains motion and poetry. It gains itself. And in this gain, finds meaning and glory among the eyes of the world.
When in a motion of unstoppable delight, the show winds down, the sentence understands itself. A one night show, no flash photography, and the memory of the sentence and it's nuance is the duty the viewer.
And not everybody does his or her job.
So it is lost.
But for that night? The sentence gave a brilliant performance.

H.O., B.R.B., Sumbody is Txting Meh

A free-write:
Why has textual communication become the more prevalent use of phones when they were produced to transmit sound?

In many situations, speaking on the phone is considered impolite. Texting, however, is more accepted. I do not necessarily think it is easier to text as, physically, it requires more work. However, not everyone wants to hear the personal conversations of strangers and the ability to have phones outside of our homes introduces the public to our conversations. Texting is discreet, and generally considered more polite than yelling to be heard on a bus or in a restaurant. Also, in many ways, we are visual creatures. It is easy to see words or pictures in front of us as opposed to having them described. Having a textual record or an image keeps the information stored in a more concrete manner than our own memory.