February 2012
27 posts
Are we tools or tool users?
I think this question is obviously the latter. I am no tool.
That aside, the definition of a tool, at least to me, is an object that people can use to improve their lives, such as a hammer or an iPhone. The emphasis there is “use.” I believe that it is possible to be a tool, to be used by someone, such as an employer or project leader. There has to be a line drawn between tool and...
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Woah. This app is legit. Go get What’s Going Down? right now.
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Is video text? What about "visual literacy"?
To literally answer the question, no. Video is not text. That much is obvious. However, “a picture is worth a thousand words,” while cliché, is still true. A single image can be more powerful than a novel. For example, the painting “American Gothic,” that old classic painting everyone knows featuring the old country couple with the man holding the pitchfork, is more moving...
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Time for Tea.: Mozart at midnight. →
ahahahashley:
You are my favorite book.
Stained with wisdom I haven’t yet discovered.
Your cover is beaten with uses
and your pages are frayed with handlings from people who didn’t have the mind to look at how beautifully you were created.
Binded together by a beautiful mind.
Your words however, are not an…
She’s a pretty fucking great fiancé. I don’t think I could live...
Blog Topic: Why do you vote the way you do? How...
I never really put much thought into how I vote. It doesn’t align with my parents, but it does with their ideals. They taught me to be universally accepting, so I feel strongly for gay rights and such. When it comes to money, I’m totally screwed. I dunno, I just like people who can say what it is they want to say. Obama is such a good speaker. I feel bad for him because he’s...
Extremely Fabulously Short Stories
My new phone, now old phone.
Lightbulb out at midnight. Darkness forever.
Frat boy. Sorority girl. Beer. Baby.
Engl. 3360 Post for the week of 2/6
Topic: Post a reaction to something going on in the world and talk about how you learned about it. Were your reactions influenced by how it was presented?
For the majority of my brief adult life, I’ve tried to avoid watching the news as much as possible. It’s not that I want to be unaware, but I find 98% of the media make me sad and frustrated. Unlike most normal people, I tend to...
January 2012
24 posts
Literacy Autobiography Blobs
The idea of a literacy autobiography never once occurred to me. Thank goodness for college though. Let’s see what all I can remember:
A few weeks before kindergarten, my sister tried to teaching me how to write within the little lines on notebook paper. I was unsuccessful. I never really learned.
In the third grade, I was incorrectly taught how to write cursive, and like many things that...
Reblog if Hobbits. Or your account will be...
Reblogging because the source was CNN.
Post 1 for Engl. 3360: Media Items that Pertain to...
First of all, in my attempts to do well in class and also maintain the quality of my blog, some of these posts will include animated gifs, videos, and other silly things in order to spice things up a little bit.
On to the assignment now! I have to post two things, short stories, videos, what-have-you, that have to deal thematically with the class, which is Issues in Composition. So, what could...
Introductory post for ENGL 3360- It'd also be good...
Greetings classmates and followers that I haven’t been properly introduced to! My name is Jacob Landrum, and I have lived on this planet for nineteen years. I grew up in the Beef Capitol of the World: Hereford, Texas. I don’t know if it actually is the Beef Capitol, but the sign outside town says so, and you can’t lie on signs, right? Right. Moving on, my interests include...
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WatchThis is Kai taking a dust bath.
