Posts from ‘April, 2009’

I noticed that Joanna put up a blog in which she said that lyrics are a form of writing. I agree with her but with some reservations.
Has anyone really sat down and listened to contemporary music lately?
It is complete gargbage!
You don’t have to go far to hear it either; try listening to any of NYC’s [...]

Because the semester is almost over I decided to go and buy a book and start reading something to entertain myself before sleep. Ususall, I get books that people recomend me and usually, it works. This time I had no recommendations at all and I was standing in the bookstore wondering which book I should [...]

While I was in the CDC I came across this article in the Wall Street Journal: Do Discount Designer Duds Make the Grade?
There is a picture of a dress from Barney’s on the left and a raincoat from Target on the right. The caption for the picture:
“A dress by Thakoon Panichgul bought from Barney’s New [...]

I’m going to take advantage of blog’s diary roots and vent here.  I’m pretty much devastated.  I applied for the Harman Writer in Residence class before the Fall 09 schedule was up on Blackboard and later found out that it conflicts with two marketing classes that I need to take if I plan to graduate on [...]

We talk about good writing on blog but what about lyrics. They are the art of writing as well.
Yesterday we have some music lessons which I really enjoy. This different tone, energy, and speed express in one piece of music is fascinating. Lyrics and music together is an amazing enyojment.  You  can hear the music  and you can hear  [...]

1. You spend the first two years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next sixteen telling them to sit down and shut up.
2. Grandchildren are God’s reward for not killing your own children.
3. Mothers of teens now know why some animals eat their young.
 4. Children [...]

Does anyone knows where can i find the restaurants reviews we have to read. I can not find them
Thank you,
America

I’ve read a wonderful collection of essays written by the former students and professors of the Iowa Writing Workshop. These works cover a wide range of topics related to writing, from reasons that make people start and carry on with it to the best-kept secrets of the trade. I wanted to tell you about one [...]

Just a reminder that class meets today in the Engelman Recital Hall (theatre space in the basement of the VC).
See you there.

I just randomly came across this quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes. I think it pretty much says it all on the power of word choice in our writing. We can consider it good advice from a good writer
“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin [...]