ELS Autoblog

Well I didn’t write anything yesterday so today I will talk about the movie “The Glass Key” as a whole, combining the two days.  The title at first confused me.  The original book, written by Dashiell Hammett, is where the movie gets most of its plot lines, with a few exceptions, as what happens with all books-made-into-movies.  I am not really a fan of the whodunit genre (I’m more of a romantic comedy girl) so I was expecting to be bored.  The movie in fact was actually better than I expected.  I really grew attached to Paul Madvig, and throughout the movie I really thought he was the one who killed Taylor.  Well I was wrong, which was a nice way to end the movie.  Of course, Ned gets the girl, as was expected, but not in the way I thought it would happen.  Madvig to just hand her over? […]

Original post by khusband

So I signed up for a second life because I thought it looked cool when Dr. Campbell showed us tonight. I’ll probably wind up getting addicted to it and not getting anything else done, haha.
My name on there is Aryana Larsson – be my friend! 

Original post by Ashley

I swear I have a blog! I swear!

Original post by georgestreet

A class that gives me another excuse to waste time on the internet… erm… I mean use my time wisely. HA!

Original post by amandaftc

Okay…not really being sure as to how these things work, I’m going to go with my favorite Plan B: talk and hope someone’s listening. First, an explanation of the title of this blog: throughout all of high school, I’ve been a big reader of books about the movie industry (yes, I also watch the movies I’m reading about. Bite me). But I’ve read–and I really hope these aren’t more of those delightfully copious rumors spawned by and about classic film stars–that both Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich had decidedly lesbian leanings and even tended to be a little butch. Therefore, the title of this blog is a tribute to that early twentieth century openness of sexuality and all mental images that it inspires (come on, Garbo a lesbian? Think about it).
 Now, on to something a bit less lecherous. We finished The Glass Key in class today. May I be harsh? […]

Original post by anniek

Although this is hardly relevant to anything, I figured my first post for Memex to YouTube would be one of my favorite YouTube videos.

Original post by mtt3e

(taps microphone..)
“Is this thing on?”

Original post by elizabethomas

the other- Menocal writes that the recent surge, over the past few centuries, in the development of Europe and the Americas, due to imperialist pursuits, has led them to classify themselves as a distinct entity from the Arab cultures that had helped lay the groundwork for the very same Renaissance that had given the western world power.  Because the west found itself as the victors of war it was able to record history as it saw fit and  only gave anecdotal credit to the Arab cultures for helping establish the rudiments of western progress. Instead the west has alienated itself from these cultures that tremendously aided their now privileged existence and ignores the fact that the dark ages were only a dark age in western societies; the cultures of the middle east as well as the Arab influence in Spain were making great strides in areas such as mathematics and […]

Original post by bford

Where stands literature in the age of New Media? Check out Urbis. Conceived in the mid 2000s, Urbis is a means for writers to kindle their craft as the New Media generation demands vigorous creativity and uniquity. Essentially, Urbis is a social network for writers to share and critique each others’ poetry and prose. But what makes this network unique is its complex crediting system.
Each new member is granted with a number of credits. And as one member uploads a piece of literature, another member can critique it. The critique will remain hidden to the intended author, who must spend an amount of credits proportional to the word-length of the critique. Credits may be received by critiquing another member’s literature. Again, credits are proportional to the word-length of the critique, so a longer critique yields a greater credit income. Abuse of this system has led to the implementation of some […]

Original post by humanisticmystic

Last week I had to turn in a paper for my Writing Systems of the World linguistics class, and my topic was ancient runes. In the Oxford dictionary, a rune is defined as 1) a letter of an ancient Germanic alphabet; 2) a symbol with mysterious or magical significance. So from 200 BC to about the 8th century, runes were a writing system that had a strong magical connotation.  Well, today I was reading Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince for the 468256 time, and one of the subjects at Hogwarts is Ancient Runes! I thought this was kinda cool because there is a strong sense of magic associated with ancient runes, and it is also a subject offered at the magical school.
Random, I know, but I find things like this interesting.

Original post by Ashley