So, in order to make up for missed blogs, today you all receive  a double shot of my sarcastic rantings. Joy! :D
I'd like to just take a moment to describe just how virulently i disagree with almost everything awful said (though hypothetically) about books and reading in the excerpt  from "Everything bad is good for you". i understand what the author was trying to accomplish, but books are some of my best friends and he said some hurtful things.
     I enjoyed the over all tone of the rest of the article and i feel the author made good points on both sides. though i feel like referencing Dr. Spok for childcare leads to everything being croup.

Well, i'm certainly awful at blog related things this semester. Anyway, i wanted to, if i could talk about the Article "Pearls before breakfast that we read last week in class. I enjoyed the subject matter immensely, but found the overall tone to be a bit patronizing. How dare busy people not stop and give money to this magnificent street musician we have for you. oh you're too busy going to work in our failing economy/ how uneducated you are!
  Other than the tone i thought it was well written, but i'm a sucker for needlessly verbose explanations of things. what can i say?

     So, whoops. I'm really bad at updating this damn thing, i doubt i'm getting credit for it at this point, it being almost a week late, but, i'd like to put in my two cents about the Jon Stewart Commencement address for William and Mary University. I enjoyed his liberal (if you'll pardon the pun) use of comedy and the actual messages he put forth in his speech; the ideas that central to your life should be helping other people.
   I would hope that his messages were well received, but i can;t help feeling that, considering my own college experience  i can only assume that some people took it wrong, laughed at the jokes and missed the messages, and i feel like those were the very people he was trying to reach.

Blog Post #3

I'll be honest, i'm not quite sure about this weeks blog post's subject. I wrote in down in my note book in such haste that couldn't later read it. I believe it was to be about 3 ideas for a community to do our paper on, if not, i apologize.
The communities i was thinking of are 1) the community of Gamer peoples  in the upper right lounge in the Rcc, i sped a lot of my time there and consider myself one of them and they are an interesting society. Another would be my Co-workers at stop and shop. the pecking order there would make for an interesting paper. and thirdly, i suppose would be the people i commute with on the train in the morning. They have, i suppose transportation in common but little else, yet they are forced to share space with one another. All would make for interesting  insights on 'community'.

Blog post #2

     The article in class this week that had the biggest effect on me was, without a doubt the one about September 11th Tattoos. Tattoos are a vibrant and of course, permanent form of art, and one not to be taken lightly. As i said in  class, They are snapshots of your identity which preserve that part of you for as long as you've skin on your bones.
     The tattoos discussed in the article are all in one particular vein; patriotism and unity in the face of national disaster. The only qualm i have about these sorts of tattoos is that the sentiments they support apparently could only be evoked by such a great loss. In an ideal world i suppose we could feel this close and similar all the time.

Blog post #1

     So. Yeah. Blog.
     I'm honestly not sure about what sort of layout is proper here, if any; so here goes.
My collage I suppose will be about this past summer. I feel like if it weren't for the summer of 2011, i would not be anywhere near the person i am now. I did a lot of maturing, but also had real honest-to-God fun for probably the first prolonged period of my life .
     It was, though I hesitate to make such a bold statement, the first real summer I had, with all amenities; friends, family, beaches, swimming, camping, and of course, at least one ill-stared romance.
If there is anything that i can say has shaped me as a person in recent years, it's that collection of sunny days from June to early September, when i experienced some of the best and worst times of my life.