more to the list: from ENGL 1033 reading list: "shiloh" by mason "mother tongue" by tan "no name woman" by hong kingston "everyday use" by walker "dover beach" by hardy "in search of gay america" by miller excerpts from lauter's canon theory text exerpts from JTHM, AMERICAN SPLENDOR, AND THE SANDMAN ANTIGONE by sophocles "why i write" by didion "nighthawks" by yellen brief overviews of rhetoric, logos, pathos, ethos, etc. others: TRASH (re-read) by allison SKIN (re-read) b...

the line "these pants aren't for the average joe" runs through my brain every time i see "blogs from the average joe" at the top of the screen. after that, the lines "don't let the russians win or the world will end/ wait till they getta loada this" follow. Says Wikipedia of discordianism, "Discordianism has been described as both an elaborate joke disguised as a religion, and a religion disguised as an elaborate joke. It has also been described as a religion disguised as a joke disg...

finished book one of MAUS yesterday. does this book get to more people because it's a holocaust survivor's story or because it's a holocaust survivor's story starring mice? heh. that the father's narrative is framed by the father/stepmother/son interactions gives the tale even more power: reaches an even wider audience. son is alienated from the father. mother is long out of the picture (a suicide). stepmother and father don't get along--they make each other crazy. and here's the son...

not really. it's just that i had that song stuck in my head today while walking around a pond looking at geese and spiderwebs. yes, the pond was looking at geese and spiderwebs. researching ph.d pogroms with rhetoric and composition concentrations. fascinating: a combination of linguistics, literature, pedagogy, sociology, and psychology. this is what i should be doing. in the middle of reading AMERICAN SPLENDOR and still in the middle of ORPHEUS EMERGED. finished ALIAS GRACE ...

children and language. they learn it quickly, and they display elasticity in language while learning it. witnessing the learning process gives us insight into how languages develop and how they work in our minds. perception, reflexes, emotional responses develop the fastest from birth to age five (approximately), right? the human brain (and thus language, as it is tied to the functioning of many little bits of the brain) has far more potential than science can surmise that it does. ...

now, i'm reading SEX, DRUGS AND COCOA PUFFS. since the last post, i read STARDUST. this thing is probably going to turn out to be a great big reading list. fantastic. how interesting. no, no, i'm serious. it's imperative that i remember on what date i finished reading X book. sure. something about last night and rum and solipsism... jeni made a good point about relationships and solipsism: the two people involved do not merge, so there are always two selves in the relationship. tw...

am reading mcmurty's PARADISE right now. travel writing, set on the author's journey around the marquesan islands (?), makes connections between life on the islands and life in rural texas. commercialism. capitalism. nationalism. communities. lack of a home. very modernist voice. do people understand each other better if they do not speak the same language or merely speak bits of each other's native language? if you can exist in that environment, it would seem so--you're naturally ...

i know i said that emotion skews meaning when it comes to communication. i was thinking about that, in particular, and i decided i should say more. to clarify and to add to that statement, several more ideas should be pointed out. emotion should not be looked at negatively in relation to communication. yes, emotion can skew the message and the interpretation of that message. however, emotion can also inspire communication in the first place--which is usually a good thing. for instance...

yeah, i know everything i say on here about language sounds like common sense, like things that everyone knows already so why say them, etc. i just like putting what i think in text and fleshing out my understandings. this allows for futher revelation. that's mostly what i'm going to talk about on here. i'm thinking that this weblog is going to serve as a journal or collection of notes for what will become an article or possibly even a book---no one will want to read it (except maybe fres...

communication, futile as it is, is mostly skewed by emotion--on both ends. interpretations make language shaky and morphous, and interpretation is affected by pathos, a variable.

earlier, i totally had an idea of something to write about... however, things being as they are, it is now later. so, there are no ideas. besides this one--which is basically just to write about not having anything to write about and to use a lot of adverbs to do so. my prose is tortured and overwrought. it is wandering and pointless. i have exited any levels of poignant-ness i may have been on or descending through on my way to meaninglessness. i started compiling ideas for what...

instant message from other employee: could you print this for me? the printer on this side of the hall isn't working. my reply: sure. just a moment. i print material, which is actually just one page. an ad for pork. heh. pork. i take page to other employee. me: here you go. him: okay. um, i'm actually gonna need all thirty pages. me: ... oh, you're kidding. there was only one. haha, you're funny. him: no. there are thirty pages. i need them all. me: that's great. h...

i like that this place is called "joeuser." it sounds like a good spot for a jane to be; also, it seems to reference the average drug addict. however, "user" seems to indicate addiction to a harsher drug--one that involves spoons and needles and foil and such. so more specifically, the name alludes to the everyday serious-ass narcotic-taker. the most exciting thing happening right now is that beef and molly are finally together on earth. i hope ray doesn't fuck it up. shun will be...

i've moved to this new location, and hopefully, this new location will work out.