Nilly and Sparky, thanks for the prompts--they definitely help. I've been rocking the cover letters, but this is much harder.
edit: heh, amych. I'll try to work that in.
Hey! What do you two think you're doing? Fightin' at a time like this. You'll use up all the air!
Jayne ,'Out Of Gas'
What Happens in Natter 35 Stays in Natter 35
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kate P. - May 10, 2005 8:26:06 am PDT #2762 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
sarameg - May 10, 2005 8:26:48 am PDT #2763 of 10001
I should know better than to click on ita's links.
Kat - May 10, 2005 8:28:37 am PDT #2764 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I should know better than to click on ita's links.
This needs to be tattooed onto my knuckles.
DXMachina - May 10, 2005 8:29:14 am PDT #2765 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Huh. Amazon has reinstated a new and improved gold box. Now it shows you two items, and you can keep one or the other of the items available while you look at the next in line. Pretty neat.
Sparky1 - May 10, 2005 8:30:21 am PDT #2766 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Here's another one Kate -- the digital divide is widening and you want to help close it and think libraries are the answer.
shrift - May 10, 2005 8:31:46 am PDT #2767 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
She's still yucky because the white trash lurks beneath.
I've got white trash running through my veins. Where's my fame and glamour? Am I not woman enough to fill the bra of a cleavagey slutbomb?
DavidS - May 10, 2005 8:32:02 am PDT #2768 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Ha! Considering your take on "authenticity," I'd think you would love this book when you're not rolling your eyes at De Zengotita's self-indulgence.
Heh. No, I saw the book and was intrigued. Though I did get that basic thesis from reading the Ballard intro I referenced.
From Ballard I got: It's not the portrayal of violence in the media which has desensitized people and made them alienated from their own experience. It's that we are aswim in a world of constant narrative, where every television ad is a tiny story. That culture has superseded experience and we check our emotions against this narrative white noise instead trusting what we feel, or even having an interior emotional context in which to place those feelings.
Kate P. - May 10, 2005 8:35:16 am PDT #2769 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
the digital divide is widening and you want to help close it and think libraries are the answer.
Ooh, interesting. What exactly do you mean by "the digital divide"? Who is on which side of the divide?
Emily - May 10, 2005 8:35:34 am PDT #2770 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Dude. I broke a law without knowing it! I spent two years breaking it! Er, assuming the statute of limitations has expired on what's essentially a blue book law in a state I don't live in.
Sue - May 10, 2005 8:38:32 am PDT #2771 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Ooh, interesting. What exactly do you mean by "the digital divide"? Who is on which side of the divide?
I was just going to mention the digital divide. Those who have access to computer, the internet, and benefits of that information vs. those who, because of socio-economic factors (poverty, illiteracy, geography), do not have the same kind of access. There's the rich/poor, urban/rural, first/third world divides.