Source

I found a source in the library, write it down, AND sent it to myself, and I still cannot find it. It was my inspiration for the thesis and I might be wiggin out the tiniest bit :/

Pop Culture

I'm currently on a babysitting gig and now that the chillins are asleep, I am free to blog and find something to watch on tv. Unfortunately, none of my options are appealing to me. It makes me wonder where the hilarious but well written dramas like M*A*S*H are hiding? And why can I not find the re-runs anywhere? Some of you reading this may have just wondered if maybe, this might not be the objective editorial on the changing trends in popular tv shows, but rather, a rant, isn't it? And if you were one of these people, you'd be right. I just want M*A*S*H back, man.

Citations: the Spiderselse of the Literary World

I don't know about anyone else, but I am not one who boasts of her love of spiders. They are icky, occasionally hard to deal with, and I try to avoid them. Which is odd, because I find myself saying the exact same thing about citations.
However, after putting myself in the position of being a plagiarized author, I realized that the only things I despised more than spiders were flies, especially of the slimy, plagiarizing variety.
So, just like spiders (who eat real flies for breakfast), citations allow us to capture the flies of plagiarizing in our web of in-text and footnote citations and prevent them from annoying us.

Pop Culture

Working in a restaurant, I hear pop music all day long and hardly ever end up turning my car radio any more. So when I do, I expect not to hear anything I know (because the pop music at work is between 6 months and a year old), and I am always surprised to realize that I still know a good majority of what is on. Does this mean that pop culture isn't all that relevant or that time just seems to move a little faster than we expect it to?

Pop Culture Post

"Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away..."

Whatever happened to intelligent cartoons? I am currently visiting my person in Huntsville and while lounging on the couch a Spiderman cartoon came on. What has happened to American cartoons?

I felt like I was watching a train wreck in slow motion--it was drawn out and helpless. I also have to ask, have cartoons become this asinine because viewers prefer dumbed down versions of  the archetypes we know and respond to, or is it because no one is watching any more and tv stations must now appeal to the low-intelligence, easy to grab audience members? Is this what many people enjoy? An I simply being too persnickity concerning my cartoon entertainment options? 

So many questions, so few answers.

Blog 10/4

I am not particularly blessed when it come to organization (which I realize is a skill rather than a natural ability), and I have to believe that I just have some good luck when it comes to finding sources. Know which words to put in a search engine or librart catalogue spent hurt though...
And as for the Shadow Stalker? He is not the reason people cheat. People will always cheat, if they want to do so. Shadow Stalker might be the way they accomplish their goal, but he's not the motivation to cheat as well.