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[dejavroom]

...come to terms with the fact that there's a very high chance that I'll go out like this for Carnival, minus spear (replaced by a bottle of giggle water) and athletic physique, of course:

[jaydub]

Well, Carnival's a few months off, right?  Get working on that physique!

[TedStriker]

I do not like their new album because it is nothing like their previous albums, at all. It is a piano pop album. It is polished. The harmonies are less bluegrass-sounding. There is less banjo.
What I loved about them was the jangley banjo strumming and yelling and harmonies and sloppiness. And the pretty, fragile songs in between, that sound like they're singing in your bedroom. 
I liked that "January" song. That is all.

I can completely understand that, and if you saw them on Letterman, you saw what happens when they try to shoehorn the banjo back into the new sound.  But I think that they've evolved to a new level as songwriters, and they've become more of a band as opposed to a couple brothers who throw some stuff on the wall and see what sticks.

Note: I will always, always love Paranoia in Bb Minor for obvious reasons.

[theinevitable]

but there are already so many bands!

[smick]

..dribble out of my assorted faceholes.

[theinevitable]

Today, I am reading for peer-review the paper of one of my classmates.
I feel a lot better about my paper now. Oh man. I will try to find a good example sentence.

[jay-ell]

Still waiting for you to send me yours, though.

[theinevitable]

oh! Sure! yes please!

I feel bad about reviewing this paper. It is hard to explain what it wrong with it in words other than "this sentence does not mean anything" or "this word does not mean this."

[Victoria Waterfield]

oh! Sure! yes please!

I feel bad about reviewing this paper. It is hard to explain what it wrong with it in words other than "this sentence does not mean anything" or "this word does not mean this."

If it's any consolation, that's a good 75 percent of what I write on my students' papers, although I usually prefer to go with "That word does not mean what you think it means".

[jaydub]

Inconceivable!

[theinevitable]

OK, I have decided that it is maybe mean to post sentences. Also I'm afraid JL will say "your paper is worse than that, you are a fool."

But there is one chunk in the introduction that I didn't understand, until I read the rest of it, and realized that she had copy-pasted a paragraph from the middle and put it at the beginning. As in, this paragraph was in there twice.

Also, even in context I had to read it twice to get what she was trying to say. She does not break sentences up into units in the right way. It confuses me.

Oh, to hell with it:

"The reproductive technologies created in these films take reproduction, which was once considered to be a natural and desirable process for humans, and naturalizes it through different means over a long period of time."
I had to read it several times before I got something like
1. people normally reproduce sexually, and think that this is normal and desirable
2. in these films, reproduction has become dependent on technology
3. over a long period of time, people have come to think of this (reproducing through means other than sex) as normal

not to mention she misunderstands/misrepresents basic things about 1984 and THX1138. I have not seen GATTACA, so I can't vouch for her there.


today we had our budget appeal for KWUR Week, a week of concerts we put on every year. Some of them wanted to turn us down because it is the same week as "George Washington Week." I am not really sure what that is. But then they gave us the money.
Then they gave several thousand dollars more than they gave us, with no debate, to a group that wants to bring Matisyahu to campus, to perform and talk about Judaism.
my friend on treasury asked "when was the last time Matisyahu was in St Louis" and was answered "a month ago," but no one else thought this was a problem.

good grief. matisyahu. come on. they used to bring quantum physicists or famous architects to give talks, but lately they are really into... bringing matisyahu instead. he will play reggae music and talk and be paid 17,000$.
Oh well. I guess they are representing what students want this money spent on.

[littlefallsmets]

"Abortions for some, tiny Bob Marley posters for others!"

[wombat]

If it's any consolation, that's a good 75 percent of what I write on my students' papers, although I usually prefer to go with "That word does not mean what you think it means".

I never had to write that on a paper. I must have had it easier than I realized.

[jay-ell]

OK, I have decided that it is maybe mean to post sentences. Also I'm afraid JL will say "your paper is worse than that, you are a fool."

But there is one chunk in the introduction that I didn't understand, until I read the rest of it, and realized that she had copy-pasted a paragraph from the middle and put it at the beginning. As in, this paragraph was in there twice.

Also, even in context I had to read it twice to get what she was trying to say. She does not break sentences up into units in the right way. It confuses me.

Oh, to hell with it:

"The reproductive technologies created in these films take reproduction, which was once considered to be a natural and desirable process for humans, and naturalizes it through different means over a long period of time."
I had to read it several times before I got something like
1. people normally reproduce sexually, and think that this is normal and desirable
2. in these films, reproduction has become dependent on technology
3. over a long period of time, people have come to think of this (reproducing through means other than sex) as normal

not to mention she misunderstands/misrepresents basic things about 1984 and THX1138. I have not seen GATTACA, so I can't vouch for her there.

She is trying to sound smart by obfuscating the meaning of this simple concept with 25-cent words. It's a classic rookie mistake.

There are two things you can do here. You can feel bad about correcting everything that's wrong with the paper, or you can feel bad at the end of the semester when she gets a bad grade from the prof.

Today I'm gonna get an email from a publisher who wants to publish my MA thesis, and delete the message when I find out it's a vanity press.

[rowboat]

"The reproductive technologies created in these films take reproduction, which was once considered to be a natural and desirable process for humans, and naturalizes it through different means over a long period of time."

This is a Wash U. student? Jesus fuck-ing Christ life is unfair. I never had enough money to go there, but I haven't written that poorly since grade school. I went to Forest Park. I got a pretty good job afterward, but I'm sure this person will be making twice what I do based on where she went to school. Fuck that shit. Anarchy now.