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Achewood => Achewood => Topic started by: EgoSumNoah on April 19, 2005, 06:44:17 am
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This review, given such a fine subject matter, managed to avoid both insight and quality writing.
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What review would that be?
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The Fourth Wall As Resilient Inflatable Boxing Clown
and it only gets more verbose from there.
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Is this on the internet somewhere, or did the clown pay a visit to your house?
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Will somebody explain for me why the formatting on the article looks like crap unless it is in full-screen mode (I am using IE) ?
http://www.brown.edu/Students/INDY/archives/2005-03-10/articles/arts-mulkeen_achewood.htm
edit: *****_Roll_Call, I thought the tags were visible in your sig for added humor. This works too, I guess.
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Too much big word!
Brain hurt!
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This article was written by a dude that has understood very little of what he's read and retained.
ANY fuck*ng AROUND WITH NARRATIVE CONVENTION DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY JUSTIFY INVOKING "THE FOURTH WALL"
Also, did you ever notice that Roast Beef is emo? Emo? Did you notice? Roast Beef being emo? Because I sure did after reading this piece
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The Indy? This is the worst formatting I've ever seen on a non-geocities page.
Also, is it wrong that I had no idea where Brown was before?
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edit: *****_Roll_Call, I thought the tags were visible in your sig for added humor. This works too, I guess.
whachu talkin bout?
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Achewood's confused hilarity stems from its fidelity to a dynamic and porous narrative skin.
I stopped here. It doesn't help that I already have a headache, but this is too much.
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Jesus. It's like a parody of McSweeneys. But it's SERIOUS.
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Man, this hits home badly. The ameteurishness of the journalism, the strange mix of attempted erudition and sophomoric inside jokes -- this is powerfully undergraduate. I'm uncomfortably used to it. Hell, these are technically my people.
Time to exodus.
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Man, this hits home badly. The ameteurishness of the journalism, the strange mix of attempted erudition and sophomoric inside jokes -- this is powerfully undergraduate. I'm uncomfortably used to it. Hell, these are technically my people.
Time to exodus.
This is crap. No-op.
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edit: *****_Roll_Call, I thought the tags were visible in your sig for added humor. This works too, I guess.
whachu talkin bout?
I don't...know. I keep phasing in and out of a place where your signature is different.
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The ameteurishness of the journalism, the strange mix of attempted erudition and sophomoric inside jokes -- this is powerfully undergraduate.
This is very true. As a Brown graduate, I would like to defend this piece/guy, but I can't. It is really very bad, and as much as I loved my college, the piece is sadly indicative of much of what I had to endure in many college classes.
I thought I would never again have to hear about something being "privileged" (i.e. "Calvin and Hobbes privileged the individual subject's imagination in a celebration of both natural and psychological worlds..."). But I guess not.
For the record, the Independent is published by both students at Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design. So I would like to partially blame RISD, but this guy goes to Brown so to hell with it all. At least I hope it got him a good grade when he used it in his comparative literature class.
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I just hope that it wins Achewood some fans and doesn't drive any potential new ones away.
~Paul
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The ameteurishness of the journalism, the strange mix of attempted erudition and sophomoric inside jokes -- this is powerfully undergraduate.
This is very true. As a Brown graduate, I would like to defend this piece/guy, but I can't. It is really very bad, and as much as I loved my college, the piece is sadly indicative of much of what I had to endure in many college classes.
I thought I would never again have to hear about something being "privileged" (i.e. "Calvin and Hobbes privileged the individual subject's imagination in a celebration of both natural and psychological worlds..."). But I guess not.
For the record, the Independent is published by both students at Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design. So I would like to partially blame RISD, but this guy goes to Brown so to hell with it all. At least I hope it got him a good grade when he used it in his comparative literature class.
See, I really wasn't thinking specifically in a "Brown" context. I was thinking of a lot of the undergraduate "journalism" that comes out of my future alma mater (Williams), which tends towards this exact same tone. (My favorite recently was the editorial about how we shouldn't argue about on-campus issues because children are starving in India, and the fact that the author at least thought about the starving children made him more morally right than those of us concerned mostly about our housing. Hoo-wee.)
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Ew, you go to Williams? Wesleyan spits at you!
In any case, that article has made me take a careful look at my own writing and tone down the affectation. I... I don't want to be that guy.
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Ew, you go to Williams? Wesleyan spits at you!
Whatever you say, Little Third. Whatever you say.
ANYWAY: if this proves anything, it's that all "elite" liberal-arts colleges are probably about equally sophomoric.
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Ew, you go to Williams? Wesleyan spits at you!
Whatever you say, Little Third. Whatever you say.
Big daddy Amherst sits in the corner and says nothing. But he's got a little smile on his face as he watches the little ones play. Oh yes he does.
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Ew, you go to Williams? Wesleyan spits at you!
Whatever you say, Little Third. Whatever you say.
Big daddy Amherst sits in the corner and says nothing. But he's got a little smile on his face as he watches the little ones play. Oh yes he does.
dude, i liked your signature better in nu-welsh.
and, isn't arguing which massachusett's college is better sort of like someone from TN saying "hey, are school systems rank higher in a national list than Arkansas!".
i mean, have some dignity people.
ps, yes, the typo is ironic because i caught it BEFORE i pressed submit. otherwise it's retarded and proves a point.
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There, thread split. Now we can get back on the topic of the obvious moral inferiority of the Smallpox Hamsters, as well as their many, many other faults.
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ooh, i started. and then it sucked and i stopped.
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Anyone who uses the word "episteme" without irony cannot be trusted.