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Politics. Economics. Essays. Postmodern geekdom as simulated ethnicity by Kom Kunyosying and Carter Soles. Postmodern geekdom as simulated ethnicity by Kom Kunyosying and Carter Soles “I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog. I always felt as a kid that I was under appreciated, invisible or weird, but I've always secretly thought people would one day appreciate what is different about me.
I'm always putting that message out there. "If this was fifteen thousand years ago, by virtue of his size and strength, Kurt would be entitled to his choice of females. ... Geek culture dominates popular media. The economic successes of geek businessmen like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are also primary sources of current geek predominance. As geeks are recognized as sources of cultural and economic capital, their manliness and date-worthiness must also rise. As geekdom moves from the cultural fringes into the mainstream, it becomes increasingly difficult for the figure of the geek to maintain the outsider victim status that made him such a sympathetic figure in the first place.
To top. Page 1 « The Sopranos: Definitive Explanation of “The END” *Update 6/19/13:James Gandolfini died today at the too young age of 51. His performance as Tony Soprano for 86 episodes is a masterwork and right at the top of our greatest performances of all time-in any medium.The Sopranos would not have been what it was, perhaps the greatest work of art in film history, a show that meant so much to so many, without his towering performance. Below is a scene from the final few episodes that is a favorite of mine and shows the great humanity he brought to the role.
Rest in peace sir, and thank you: And once again, this incredible, and now famous Sopranos tribute video by Lyle at exeterstreet, which now has new meaning Now revised and expanded, including a very revealing radio interview with David Chase in April of 2008! *Note from author (December 6, 2010): Its been over three years since the finale of the Sopranos, yet the ending continues to be discussed and debated to this day.
Part II: What does Tony’s death mean? Part VIII: Who Killed Tony? Mr. Mr. How “one weird trick” conquered the Internet: what happens when you click on those omnipresent ads. Ad screengrab You’ve seen them. Peeking out from sidebars, jiggling and wiggling for your attention, popping up where you most expect them: those “One Weird Trick” ads. These crudely drawn Web advertisements promise easy tricks to reduce your belly fat, learn a new language, and boost your credit score by 217 points. They seem like obvious scams, but part of me has always wanted to follow the link. What, I wonder, makes the tricks so weird? How come only one trick (or sometimes "tip"), never more?
Why are the illustrations done by small children using MS Paint? Thankfully, Slate has allowed me to slake my curiosity, and yours. Newly emboldened, I clicked on my first ad, which promised a cure for diabetes. Every time Lon seemed about to get to the spicy heart of the matter, he’d go off on a tangent. What is Lon up to? It’s doubtful, though, that Lon has much in the way of insider info. The Barton brain trust seemed surprisingly sincere, which I kept in mind as I turned to my next ad. Kit Whitfield's Blog: Innocent libertinism. So, I mentioned previously that having succumbed to curiosity about the Twilight phenomenon and actually read the first book, I'd blog about it.
The first thing to say is this: I'm not about to slam it. (Well, the first first thing to say is that the paragraph spacing in this post may be all over the place, in which case I'm sorry. Blogger has moods.) In general I'm not eager to attack fellow-novelists on this blog, but there's another reason too: Twilight has been panned all over the press and Internet, panned up hill and down dale, and if I bothered to dwell on its faults I'd only be repeating what's been said a million times. More than that, slagging off its literary infelicities is to some extent missing the point. Twilight is popular; oh boy, is it popular. When books are popular to this extent, there's usually something interesting about them.
So there's something interesting going on with Twilight, more interesting than simply scoring points at its expense. Touched by a vampire. Unspeakable Conversations. I have agreed to two speaking engagements. In the morning, I talk to 150 undergraduates on selective infanticide. In the evening, it is a convivial discussion, over dinner, of assisted suicide.
I am the token cripple with an opposing view. I had several reasons for accepting Singer's invitation, some grounded in my involvement in the disability rights movement, others entirely personal. For the movement, it seemed an unusual opportunity to experiment with modes of discourse that might work with very tough audiences and bridge the divide between our perceptions and theirs. I didn't expect to straighten out Singer's head, but maybe I could reach a student or two. Among the personal reasons: I was sure it would make a great story, first for telling and then for writing down. By now I've told it to family and friends and colleagues, over lunches and dinners, on long car trips, in scads of e-mail messages and a couple of formal speeches. A: He gave no sign of it. A: It was very difficult.
Academic Phrasebank. Writer's Diet. Nerd Paradise : How to Write a 20 Page Research Paper in Under a Day. Posted on: 10 Cado 7:0 - 5.27.29 So you've procrastinated again. You told yourself you wouldn't do this 2 months ago when your professor assigned you this. But you procrastinated anyway. Shame on you. Pick a Topic The more "legally-oriented" your topic is, the better.
Make a list ...of every possible outcome that this issue could cause in...the near future...the far future...of every person that this topic affects....of any instances where this topic has come in the news....what you would do about this topic if you had the chance/power/enough-sugar...any little detail you can think ofThe important thing about this is to think of ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING, no matter how silly or far-fetched. Reorder everything Put your most obvious argument first. Then put weird off the wall stuff, regardless of importance. Put the strongest argument for your case next. Now list the incidents that will help argue for your point. It's best to keep all this in the form of an outline. Spaces Now print it out. Write.