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The Total Perspective Vortex This morning Trent asked me to edit a paper for him. I was happy about this because, as an English major, editing other people's papers is the only really excellent and useful skill that you gain. I am a pretty zealous proofreader, and it used to be that I would frequently hurt people's feelings in my zeal. Luckily, Trent is a good sport, and his pride can stay intact even in the face of red ink. The problem mostly arises from differences in approach to papers and editing. When I take my paper to someone for editing I want them to rip it to pieces. I want weaknesses in my argument ferreted out, underdeveloped connections exposed, grammar mistakes eradicated. I want the editor to burn my paper to the ground so that from the ashes will rise a new and more fabulous creature. Basically I want to get an A. My mistake is in assuming that everyone wants their paper to be besieged by questions, ideas, and comas. Most people who bring me a paper don't wa...

Alan Keele, I am Looking for a Job and I could For Sure do a Better Job than the Chuckleheads Currently on your Staff So today I went and got my mail. (I do this only occasionally because I always have junk mail and it depresses me.) Today was no different, more and more junk. Including this little gem from Alan Keele. I read through it on the walk back to my door. It was a long walk because I had to stop and recover from my complete shock upon reading that Democrats are actually NOT godless baby-eaters. I know! You can click on the above image to read it for yourself, but I kind of just spoiled the main point for you. Anyways, I thought this was a pretty boring flier until I looked at the little caption on the comic: Woah woah woah, what? So I get that Alan Keele loves Republicans, but I am also getting that he thinks Independents are pretty much dopey minded peasants. Listen Alan Keele's people, do you have focus groups? Maybe you should put some people of different parties in yo...

Reverse Attraction in Action? Have you heard of felting wool before? Basically you get a pile of wool and prod and shape in into things with a barbed needle. There are some truly amazing sculptures done by Stephanie Metz , using this technique. After looking at her stuff I wanted to give it a try, but I didn't want to go buy a ton of fancy wool. (I'm still looking for a job remember?) So I decided to try it with lint: Then I started thinking about yesterday's post, and the Reverse Attraction Rule, I decided to introduce Elephanty to the clothes he is made of: Poor Elephanty, he's the saddest lint elephant: P.s. Felting with lint is fun, but you are not going to be producing any fabulous works of art with it...probably.

Detached So Karen was telling me about this clip from Jerry Seinfeld: I thought it was funny and true, but then the more I thought about it, the more I decided that really this phenomenon is not so unique. Pretty much anything that was once attached and then becomes unattached becomes completely repulsive. Think about it: Really, the possibilities are endless. This doesn't just hold true to physical things either. If you were once figuratively attached to something, and then became later unattached, that thing becomes fervently repugnant, often just as repellent as it was once attractive. I dub this, "The Rule of Reverse Attraction". The inverse of this rule, I think, rarely holds true; (the more revolting something is, the more passionately you love it when it becomes attached to you) but this is the premise for just about every chick-flick type movie ever. This is opening a door where few desire to tread, into my seething disgust for chick-flicks. So we'll just wra...

Things That Will Make Movies Better: Batman, Jason Bourne, Gandalf, and Scrooge McDuck

Letter for Movie Folk Dear people who make movies. I would like to ask you to please start making more movies that I like, and less movies that I hate. I will give you a couple of guidelines to help you. For today, please examine your movies-in-progress, and remove any of the following things that may be in them: There are a few other things that will ruin your movie, but these are the main ones. Tomorrow we will go over things that are good to put in movies. Thanks! -Rachel