hw 23: handbags from hell

With Apologies to Virginia Woolf

As I nonchalantly read about Anne Hathaway’s pitiable relationship that is covered by a handbag as said in the blog “Hath-Away” today on Jezebel (http://jezebel.com/gossip/hath_away%3F/-313742.php). Here the woman gets a handbag, a small insignificant gesture to cover up adultery as if it were a spill down the front of her shirt. Nevertheless, she takes the handbag, walks through New York City and smiles, smiles like there is no spill at all, because that is why he gave it to her. At least Anne got her handbag before her relationship got too serious, before she turned in to one of the most talked about Bridezillas of Britain on Jezebel (http://jezebel.com/gossip/hells-bells/return-of-the-british-bridezillas-313638.php). Anne and these girls have something in common, they are all walking through New York City toward something they cannot even enter, something only their husbands and boyfriends can enter into. These “bridezillas” and their hellish make up and demands because for once, on that one day it is supposed to be about them, not their husbands and his coat tails but her, and her wedding dress and expectations for the night. So they grab their handbags with clenched fists and Anne shows them exactly how to walk right up to that door, and with pride walk away. Because that is what women do, they pretend and pretend and pretend that they can one day walk through the same doors their men do, and they pretend with pride.

hw 22: women drink wine too

In chapter two of A Room of One’s Own, she shows her sarcastic side with no boundaries, side sweeping men and women differences and sly remarks on the livelihood of the two. By passing, the way women should be acting and doing exactly what they are not supposed to do by walking on grass and wishing to read a book, oh my Virginia Woolf must have been a hellish woman to write about this. (Chapter one) See the sarcasm? I believe that is her point, for you to know that how she feels about the topic at hand, gender roles for example, I believe she feels that women are put under men so to speak and thinks it is inappropriate. Women drink water, men drink wine. Water in those days was nothing compared to drinking wine, yet women could not drink wine just men. (Page 25) The women vs. men is something unending in the works of Woolf, I believe as she did that women are not subordinate to men, we are just as equal yet in the days of Virginia Woolf when you were to walk in to a library or museum the books available are overwhelmingly overpowered by male authors. (Page 27) It does not stop with brains and allowances, it continues to money and food as well. Women just get the raw deal according to Woolf; they are poor prune eating women. (Pages 28-36) I agree with Woolf that back in those days women were considered lower then men, however now a days I feel that there are more Virginia Woolf’s walking on grass and reading all the books they please. That is the most important thing of all, that women are no longer eating prunes and drinking water that they are eating fresh meats and drinking red wine!

HW 21: Helpin out my favorite niece!

Hi Leila,
I just finished reading chapter one of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and if you are ready, I will tell you what it means, what is important about it and how I felt about reading it!! I hope this helps!!! Virginia Woolf is asked to give her opinion on women and fiction. She replies that women need two things, money and a room of their own to work in, in order for fiction to be produced by women authors. Claiming how weighted this question is and that is has no true answer or conclusion Woolf takes us through a series of how she got to that point. The point being that she did not answer the question in full but touched upon the influences of women authors and their histories as well as the impact of the male role in society has had. I feel that it is important to know that she did not answer the question right out, she dabbled in to different authors lives, their pasts and the history of where she was, the university and the effects such histories have upon women and authorship in general. There is no way to effectively answer such a question, you could merely reflect upon it and as Woolf stated either accept or reject the manifestation. I hope this helps you better understand Virginia Woolf and better ready for what is to come later in this book!
Love you,
Your favorite Aunt

HW 19: iraqi's eye view

The third paragraph on page 84 discusses a blogger by the name of “Baghdad Blogger” from Iraq. His blog began so small and as more of a diary than anything else but what his blog really means is what life is like in a war zone, it is a newsflash for those of us who don’t know what it is like, it is his outlet to inform the world about what is happening in Iraq. For example, he tells about what really caused the three-day blackout in Iraq, it was a technological error not the US, not anyone or a country. It was a mistake by them, but that is not how the media portrayed it. Essentially, I’m saying that his blog is real. It is information from an Iraqi’s view of what is happening to his people in his country to and by his people. How can anyone argue what he has to say about what he sees on a daily basis? It is Iraq from an Iraqi.

Sex isnt going to cut it this time HW 17B

In consideration to voting and the ability to sway ones vote, sex and the relationship status of anyone in Washington does not affect whom I want to run our country. What affects my vote is how apt they are to do so; they are experience, views, ability to multi-task despite how mommy that sounds it is key in doing ANYTHING well. Therefore I’d have to say that despite the hilarity in Ana Marie Cox’s interview and weblog there is nothing but entertainment and scandal behind her writing, true it is raw and real fact but it is not liable information on whether or not they can run a country it is who they are sleeping with this month. And if you were to ask anyone truly concerned about our country, a troop for example, they are not going to base they’re opinion on who they want deciding they’re duties on what sex they like best and with who. It is above all of that nonsense, it is what makes a person able to stand up to the job of being in charge of X number of Americans lives every day. Knowing that when he wakes up it is his job, his responsibility to make America, America and keep its pride, health and well being up to par. My vote is going to be for what I learn from someone like Markos Moulitsas and his weblog Daily Kos. The facts given to us by him are what makes presidency real and important, it’s the history behind them, truth they tell, lies they’ve told, experience under they’re belt that allow us to weigh them properly and chose who is going to be the next person to be in that White House.

hw 18: shamefull and shotty blogging

I hated the blog “Latest News” (http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs ) Goodnight and Bite me: Katie Couric’s Big Mouth by the Fracturing Team. So what Katie Couric had an interview, people have interviews every day yet this time she was answering ridiculous questions therefore her answers were a bit out of the ordinary. Nevertheless, the author of this blog chose to expose her interview in a way that was not only horribly written and random but offensive to her as a person, it made her look like she gave a horrible-random-interview when really she did not. She is a respectable woman with credentials this blogger only wish he could dream of, which in lays the problem with blogging, it takes things none of anyone else’s business makes it huge in a way that is…trashy. If she made an unprofessional statement shame on her, but turning it around and claiming it will ruin CBS by giving it a new street slogan is a bigger shame on you.

blogging for dummies hw 16

The five pillars of conversational software according to Robert Scoble in Kline and Burstein’s “Blogs: Humanizing the Face of Corporate America” have the potential to be difficult to understand if you are not a blogging aficionado. So to break them down for me and the rest of the newbie’s of the blogging industry I am going to translate these pillars in to laymen’s terms. The first pillar is about how easy it is to post things on to a blog and have it be instantly published for all to see on the web. The second is how to get your blogs discovered by others or for you to discover other blogs by using things such as tags, that allow your site to be accessible that much easier. The third is what you would do to see who is looking at your blogs, see who is interested in what you are saying or see what you have in common with other bloggers. The fourth enables you to go directly to another site and the fifth is how you, on your own terms see everything you want to see and when you want to see it! Blogging isn’t terribly hard once you are passed all the jargon of the industry, it starts with just the simple click of a mouse and you are on your way to becoming a part of the evolutional blogging world!

Rock of Love...Play on love HW 17

Every Sunday night in Holloway 100b six girls would sit waiting for the next elimination on VH1’s Rock of Love! A few weeks went by and the final elimination came about and we watched as Heather was eliminated followed by an embarrassing exit. Little did we know that as we were watching the show she was posting a blog on My Space informing viewers exactly what happened that night. On the blog, Jezebel there was a post on how everything was edited by the TV station. She told about how almost everything we saw was either edited from other times or not said at all, like all TV, it was made to make people interested not to portray the truth. Heather had in fact not said she’d “love to” share Bret Michaels with Jess, they did stop when he wasn’t feeling good out in the sand dunes and everything portrayed about her was false and made her look like a bad guy while Jess was made to look like an angel. Personally, I feel like her post on My Space is fake and edited, I do not believe that any of that is actually real despite our addiction to watching the show every Sunday night it is still fake. You cannot believe anything you see on TV or read on My Space. However, I am glad that Jezebel had something up about how it was all edited and that someone is admitting that it is all TV magic.

the rise and fall of the..media...hw 14

Actually after reading Nick Denton’s interview on “Take an Obsession, Then Feed it” I agreed with the majority of what he said. Indeed the blog industry is booming, there are more blogs on the web then I can count and their reader popularity is gaining on the readers of mainstream media. Although it makes me sad to think our beloved newspapers that have been with us for all time are decreasing it isn’t like weblog’s are something bright and shiny new, they too have been with us for quite some time and are just now turning the cusp of becoming something amazing just as newspapers once did! According to Denton “everything that is, and that will be, has been before” and that is exactly true, there were pamphlets then newsboys yelling on the corner to get a newspaper and then came the internet. Ultimately, there will always be some of all of those things in our lives, one may be more prominent then the other but they will always all be there. In short the mainstream media is starting to decline in reader statistics as blogs are gaining but the battle between medias will never end and there will always be a newspaper, blog, pamphlet, and news channel despite the rise and falls they all will go through.