tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37476114.post7507418911923838979..comments2024-03-24T03:19:18.249-04:00Comments on An English Major's Money: Friday FeedbackEnglish Majorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00276582833751319518noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37476114.post-64021676999792765962018-09-15T02:54:43.256-04:002018-09-15T02:54:43.256-04:00Need To Increase Your ClickBank Banner Traffic And...<b>Need To Increase Your ClickBank Banner Traffic And Commissions?</b><br /><br /><a href="http://www.bannerizer.com" rel="nofollow"><b>Bannerizer</b></a> made it easy for you to promote ClickBank products with banners, simply visit <b>Bannerizer</b>, and get the banner codes for your favorite ClickBank products or use the <b>Universal ClickBank Banner Rotator Tool</b> to promote all of the ClickBank products.Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287821785570247118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37476114.post-52666312977594634302007-01-24T17:34:00.000-05:002007-01-24T17:34:00.000-05:00Buffy and Six Feet Under are two of my very favori...Buffy and Six Feet Under are two of my very favorite shows. I lost track of SFU since we stopped getting HBO somewhere in the second season, so I'm just catching up now.<br /><br />Plus, I was told that they shot part of an episode in the restaurant that I worked in over the summer, so now I'm scouring every episode, trying to find it...Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06866444596964914782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37476114.post-45345683758216192302007-01-22T16:04:00.000-05:002007-01-22T16:04:00.000-05:00Kid, just wanted to say I'm big-time proud of you ...Kid, just wanted to say I'm big-time proud of you for keeping tabs on Dave Ramsey and for spreading the word about him. Good luck on deep-sixing your debt. Here's looking at you, kid. www.debtective.comDEBTectivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15864006944993496665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37476114.post-54166084993515306352007-01-22T11:47:00.000-05:002007-01-22T11:47:00.000-05:00I got all caught up in Six Feet Under on DVD too, ...I got all caught up in <i>Six Feet Under</i> on DVD too, and when I watched the finale last spring, it completely destroyed me. I was a sobbing mess, and I don't usually cry at movies or TV! It really was a feat of the writers, directors, and actors on that show to be able to make so many viewers feel like they were part of the Fisher families' lives. Sometimes I catch the reruns on Bravo, but there's nothing like watching the series all the way through for the first time.<br /><br />I'm really enjoying your blog, by the way. I just found it last week, and I'm catching up on your archives. I was an English major too (graduated in '02).Laurenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16106727966296537140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37476114.post-83189001613119034792007-01-20T18:49:00.000-05:002007-01-20T18:49:00.000-05:00You should definitely check out The Wire, which wi...You should definitely check out The Wire, which wins a vote from this SFU/Sopranos/Arrested Development fan as the best television show ever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37476114.post-68783031594018147842007-01-19T21:06:00.000-05:002007-01-19T21:06:00.000-05:00chris, perhaps a story will help: I watched the fi...<b>chris</b>, perhaps a story will help: I watched the first season of <i>Buffy</i> when it originally aired ('96, I think) and lost track of it. Then I picked it up again my freshman year of college and found it extraordinarily <i>comforting</i>mostly I love it because it's an incredibly caring and accurate depiction of how hard it feels to be a teenage girl. I think the use of metaphor is just <i>brilliant</i> in that show—the way the metaphorical transition of normal problems (your boyfriend dumps you after you sleep with him) into metaphysical problems (your boyfriend <i>turns evil and tries repeatedly to kill you</i> after you sleep with him) raises the stakes in a way that makes issues resonant without being too obvious about them. It's hard to make a show about being a teenager, without getting all "poooor meeeee" about it, you know? But <i>Buffy</i> managed to make you <i>care</i> about the issues that the Scoobies faced without ever taking them too seriously <i>or</i> dismissing them, and I think that's a tremendously difficult line to walk, and one the show successfully walked for most of its tenure. <br /><br />I also thought the show's treatment of gender issues was consistently thoughtful and conscious. You may or may not have heard about how the concept for the show occurred to Joss Whedon—he describes it as playing around with reversing the gender role in common horror-movie conventions. The first scene of <i>Buffy</i> shows a cute blonde girl (it's Darla, but of course we don't know that at the time) being coaxed by a jocky guy into Sunnydale High after hours to make out. She keeps saying she's scared, he keeps up the usual "c'mon, baby" stuff. This is a trope we know: girls resist sex, boys demand it; girls are scared, boys are reckless. We expect him to kiss her, kill her, or both, possibly after she runs around the school, losing her clothing en route. Then it flips: she vamps out and bites him (why, hello, penetration metaphor!). She's suddenly the aggressor (sexually and just physically). I think <i>Buffy</i> confronted issues of gender on a regular basis, and did it well.<br /><br />The show got bad in the last couple of seasons, after it was sold to FOX, and I think we sort of lost track of the real issues (or got slammed over the head with them, Willow's-magic-addiction-style), but I still love the show, not because it was cute and sassy and had a cute girl in a miniskirt kicking ass, but because for me, it was the most realistic depiction that television had to offer of being a young woman in a world that can feel hostile in general and hostile to young women in particular. <br /><br />It shares a few important characteristics with <i>Six Feet Under</i>, most notably a sense that the worst thing you can do, to other people and to yourself, is behave cruelly, but also importantly, the ability to have beloved characters do terrible things without sacrificing their relatability—what that means to me is that there's ambiguity. Good people do bad things, & vice versa, and you don't stop relating to the character because they've done something bad, but you also don't excuse what they've done.<br /><br />Again, I think the show suffered with Joss Whedon's absence and from generally unsubtle writing in its later years, but really, I think it's brilliant television, and much underappreciated because of its light banter and young female protagonist.<br /><br />I bet you're sorry you asked!English Majorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00276582833751319518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37476114.post-60987267381590350752007-01-19T15:35:00.000-05:002007-01-19T15:35:00.000-05:00Teeny-bopper TV, guilty pleasure, junk food, etc. ...Teeny-bopper TV, guilty pleasure, junk food, etc. :-)<br /><br />I'm actually curious, though. I enjoyed Buffy as well, but it seems like we enjoyed it for very different reasons, and I don't think I've ever known anybody who claimed to like it for "serious" reasons.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18177615117719791044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37476114.post-92206303811040980292007-01-19T15:31:00.000-05:002007-01-19T15:31:00.000-05:00I love six feet under too! I watched the whole ser...I love <i>six feet under</i> too! I watched the whole series (all seasons!) back-to-back in the break after my graduation, before starting work. For a couple of days out there, during the darkest episodes, I walked around feeling vaguely depressed! The characters are that real!<br /><br />The reruns are playing on bravo these days.... so if someone wants to know what the hoopla is about, that should be a good place to start (tonnes of ads, though). More info here: http://www.bravotv.com/Six_Feet_Under/index.shtml. For ad-free viewing, I would recommed blockbuster or netflix. <br /><br />Be warned though, its very addictive!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com