If you have been following this blog from the beginning, you might recall my nod to Gus, The World’s Ugliest Dog. Gus became a pictorial representation of my bad haircut the first week of class, proudly exhibiting all his cuteness on the very first entry into this blog.
Alas, Gus has died this week after a [...]
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Gus, 1999-2008
Posted in image on November 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Running has a very hot friend.” WTF???!!
Posted in advertising, class discussion post, gender, image, television on November 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wow. I had to pause in the middle of reading your Rhetorical Analysis papers to post this video. Mark, from the 11:55 class, has chosen these New Balance ads for his text up for analysis. I was so shocked at this commercial…it is soooooo sexual. To sell sneakers! I don’t know why I am shocked [...]
Argument Project…more ideas!
Posted in advertising, class discussion post, gender, image, in-class freewrite, movies, television on November 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Some of you are still struggling with topics for your Argument Project, despite the Prospectus you wrote. Just a few ideas below (along with the rest of this blog) on issues of argument that all relate—or can relate if argued properly—to popular culture. Remember that your argument paper requires you to be persuasive to a [...]
Topic for Class Discussion
Posted in class discussion post, image on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Tannen’s essay, “There is no Unmarked Woman,” she argues,
“The term ‘marked’ is a staple of linguistic theory. It refers to the way language alters the base meaning of a word by adding a linguistic particle that has no meaning on its own. The unmarked form of a word carries the meaning that goes without [...]
Bad Haircut
Posted in image on August 24, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I suppose it’s odd to begin a blog about popular culture with a comment on today’s haircut. And a blog that is designed to be a “critical response” to popular culture makes this virgin post even a bit more perplexing to the average reader. But I just came back from getting a bad [...]
