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« on: April 19, 2005, 06:44:17 am »
This review, given such a fine subject matter, managed to avoid both insight and quality writing.
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« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2005, 06:46:22 am »
What review would that be?
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« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2005, 07:04:22 am »
The Fourth Wall As Resilient Inflatable Boxing Clown

and it only gets more verbose from there.
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« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2005, 07:07:06 am »
Is this on the internet somewhere, or did the clown pay a visit to your house?
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« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2005, 07:27:09 am »
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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« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2005, 07:56:58 am »
Too much big word!
Brain hurt!
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« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2005, 01:20:36 pm »
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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« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2005, 01:31:43 pm »
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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« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2005, 02:14:13 pm »
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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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« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2005, 03:33:44 pm »
Quote from: "Martin Mulkeen"
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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« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2005, 08:05:16 pm »
Jesus. It's like a parody of McSweeneys. But it's SERIOUS.
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« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2005, 10:23:27 pm »
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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« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2005, 12:23:00 am »
Quote from: "V-Adore"
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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« Reply #13 on: April 20, 2005, 07:45:19 am »
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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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« Reply #14 on: April 20, 2005, 09:11:38 pm »
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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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