Doral's Domain

AC ahoy!

2007-05-30T21:51:40Z

I haven't posted here in, like, a million years.

Well, I just wanted to mention that I will be at AC. It's just that I've been making that secondary since I've been mostly planning for my graduation. :)

So look me up!

Thanks Everyone!

2007-01-06T06:58:19Z

Thanks everyone for the well birthday wishes! I'd reply to all of you individually but it's a hell of a lot easier to do one generic thank you post.

*hugs and kisses the lot of you*

dorallizard @ 2007-01-02T10:14:00

2007-01-02T15:14:55Z

Yes folks, I'm still alive. I suppose I have to 'splain myself, so I will. This may be a bit long, so just bear with me.

Quick Notes

1) My FULL name is Doral, not Dora. Please note the final 'l' in the name! Not that I don't like the name Dora-- I mean, it's a cute nickname, and I do find myself saying 'Swiper, no swiping!' at certain times, but my official certified creation name is DORAL.

2) I am no artist. I get alot of PMs asking my for trades and commissions, but folks, please: I don't draw. All pictures here are gifts, requests, or commissions, and I always give proper credit. So now you know.

F*ck that-- Why were you MIA?

Okay, you desearve an explanation. For the most part in my life, I have always been able to balance my RL life with my VR life. However, during my college run I began to feel things were becoming lop-sided. Not that I didn't have fun online, it's just that I wasn't having fun RL. Let's be honest: I'm a young, relatively handsome guy, and yet I don't go and hang out all the time like other people my age do. So I guess you can say I've been trying to act my age-- going to parties, hanging out at bars, chilling with my RL friends, etc.

Truthfully speaking, I have realized that I have been going through some eerie state of depression. It might have not seemed like it-- like I say all the time, I don't do EMO. But I have been feeling somewhat down in the pit of my stomach. I mean, all these pictures and gifts are SO appriciated and I trule adore them all, but in terms of me being happy with my RL self, things have been lacking. I don't like Dartmouth and all my high school so-called friends are rich, white (no offense) jerks who don't leave their precious town. Ever. The problem is that these are the people I know-- so I find myself trying to associate myself with them, assuming that the whole high school drama thing is over. But I'm only fooling myself. So, yeah, I'm basically cutting off those bastards and trying to branch out on my own.

So in trying to "do me," I haven't been around. Partly because when I RP, my concern is not me so much as is the person I'm RPing with-- I want to be sure they're having fun and enjoying it. Which, in the long run, leaves me somewhat at the short end of the stick, since I'm so concerned about their enjoyment I completely forget about mine. So again, I guess you can say I've been trying to find the fun in life for myself.

So what does 2007 hold?

Well, I'm certainly in much better spirits. My nose is 98% healed and I have been having fun with close friends. I'm heading back up to school tomorrow, so I hope I can be around a bit more, but I have a sinking feeling that I may have to do ALOT of work for this term. Not that I'm behind in credits per se, but more like I'm behind in certain requirements to officially graduate. So I'll have to see. God, I can't WAIT till I graduate.

I hope to update my site soon, write more, etc. Again that's all up in the air. So, what are Doral's Resolutions for 2007? And what is the precentage that I'll actually accomplish them?
- Continue working out/eating better (95%)
- Remember people's birthdays (28%)
- Hang out with more fur friends RL (78%)
- Hang out with more RL friends (82%)
- Be more accessible via chat rooms/IMs/Mucks (50%)

We'll see where this goes.

Also, starting tomorrow, I wanted to start this silly little thing called 'Doral's Top Five,' where I list the top five best/worst things of ANY TOPIC. It could be the best movies, the worst video games, the coolest coffe flavors, the dumbest colors of fences, etc. Serious, funny, whatever. The fun part would be reading the comments. :)

I hope you people have had a great holiday season. I hope to catch you all to some extent in 2007! :)

Good post

2006-11-24T22:39:47Z

Hello everyone!

Hope you had a good Thanksgiving.

Hope those that went to MFF had a great time.

Hope those that traveled long distances are safe and sound.

And for being great people, here: a new icon. For those that wanted more tongue-- here you go!

Wow

2006-11-21T21:00:17Z

Does anyone else think that this whole thing with O.J. Simpson is the most... BIZARRE AND STRANGEST THING IN THE UNIVERSE?

I mean, an interview with a suspected killer where the killer... actually... gives a "hypothetical" rundown on how he "would" have killed his victim?

Doesn't anyone else think that's just HILARIOUS?

New LJ icon!

2006-11-09T23:48:29Z

spunkywulf made this for me! Isn't it darling?

*hugs the bloo woof till she pops*

Mmm, warm and fuzzy meme

2006-10-30T06:06:06Z

Taken from duncanroo, this meme seems warm and fuzzy enough to do, especially since I've been in such good spirits. (See my FA account as to why.)

Normally I just do character-related memes, but this I like. :)

Comment with your username and I'll give you an honest compliment. Then post this in your journal and spread the love.

FurFright

2006-10-17T06:52:46Z

I will be there! Friday, Saturday, and Sunday! It'll be brief but I'll be sure to see as many people as possible!

Give a holla if you're going. :)

The Trials of Darryl Hunt

2006-10-05T04:52:10Z

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446055/

Tonight, I had the opportunity to watch this film prior to it's theatrical release and/or it's HBO presentation.

The story is about an African-American man from North Carolina who was arrested and convicted for raping and killing a white, female newspaper editor. The evidence was shoddy and the witnesses were clearly lying and intimidated, but he was sentenced to life. The year was 1984.

In 1993, Hunt's lawyers managed to get a retrial. There, more lying witnesses and ruined evidence led to Hunt's continued guilt and further incarceration.

A year later, DNA testing was approved. Note, however, DNA testing was available some 5 years ago or so, but due to the police's terrible investigation and the DA's political desire to convict quickly, it was never done. The DNA evidence showed that Hunt was innocent. However, the NC Supreme Court ruled the DNA evidence was not enough. His appeal was struck down.

In 1994, the US Supreme Court struck down the final appeal.

2003. The DNA results were ran through the system, and a match was made. The person who it matched was convicted in another rape case. In fact, he admitted on his arrest that he was the real culprit of the rape and murder victim Hunt was convicted of. The police apparently knew this, but buried it all.

In 2004, finally, after 19 years of incarceation, Hunt was released from prison and exonerated. The state of NC gave him 350,000 dollars in compensation after losing 19 years of his life.

I bring this up because I -just- met Darryl Hunt in person.

It was absolutely amazing to see someone so raggerdly and horribly treated for so long maintain such composure and peace. He spoke eloquently and calmly, showing not anger ate the rampant racism or dispair at the US Justice System, but a quiet hope and and complacent acceptance of everything he's been through. His current mission is helping other wrongly convicted people get exonerated.

I couldn't believe his resolution, and when I went up to shake his hand, I asked him what advice would he give to anyone going through a similar situation; in other words, with so much hate and anger over the little things these days, with all these fights and conflicts, injustices and discrimation, how can we all maintain that kind of stoicy?

"Be true to yourself," he said. "Be true to yourself and never give up hope. My lawyers, my community, and my supporters stuck with me till the end. I knew I was innocent, and that gave me peace. If I died at any point during all this, I would had died happily, because I knew I was innocent."

My next drink is to you Darryl Hunt.

The "Real" News

2006-10-03T23:06:29Z

>.> <.<

Okay, my last LJ entry was purposely boring to get people to lose interest, so all the -cool- people would stay and see all the cool, awesome stuff.

I can't draw worth of squat, but I'm currently taking a History of Animation course that is both awesome and scary at the same time. My professor is named David Ehrlich, a local abstract animator who helped to reinvent Animation Studies as a legit field in film studies. The guy is a little crazy but is a damn good speaker.

And we get to watch cartooooooooooooooooooooooooooons. :)

So far we touched upon early animations by Cole, Blackton, and Winsor McCay of "Little Nemo" fame. We also delved into some early European abstract animations, which was interesting, mainly because animator Fischinger taught Disney and his animators how to time movements to music for his work in Fantasia. We also talked about Disney (Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy) and Fleischer Studios (Betty Boop, Popeye, Superman), and the competition between those studios.

It's pretty awesome to partake in seeing how animation developed, and how fast it developed too. So many techniques were designed over the years during the pre-War years it's pretty sad to see that those techniques are so long gone and forgotten.

The scary part is when we talk about the specifics of animation shorts, like Felix the Cat and the idea of anthropomorphism. It's SO hard to talk about the idea without bringing up furry. Think about it. If you talk about how early 'animal' characters used their tails as 'objects' and combine it with in-depth Fruedian analysis, you can pretty much say the first 'anthromorphized' characters where nothing but sex ideals-- and YOU'D BE RIGHT! Or, at least have a legit argument. David seems like the kind of guy that probably knows about furry anyway.

Any of your furs out there have that same trouble in your respective art/animation classes?

Doral Updates Hir Life

2006-09-29T03:39:55Z

It's sure been a while since I last updated. What's been going on since... you know, that thing?

College! Wheee. :)

Yeah, it's that time again, so I'm gonna be working and busy and idly most of the time again. It's keep me distracted, but at the same time keeps me from the usual fun. So that's that.

I've been maintaining my exercise routine-- lifting 3 times a week, running the other 4 days-- which has been cool. But the routine has been getting mundane, so I joined a cycling class every Tuesday and Thursday (which also gives me PE credit).

Dude, the class is so gay. Like, we totally do these stretching exercises that are totally gay, and she like, calls on people and motivates them, which is such a gay thing to do. God!

It's alright though. It definitely gets me a good sweat, so I'm not complaining.

Um... that's it.

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Oh, who's doing the FurFright thing? I really, really, really want to go. I need to see who are heading up there and perhaps see if I can squeeze in with someone or get a couple of folks to hit up a new room. I'm not sure at this point.

And that's that

2006-09-05T06:08:45Z

I think that I owe you all an apology and an explanation of my somewhat strange behavior for the past couple of weeks. You know, me popping in and out of the fandom so randomly, me posting various things on FA, all the while saying I was taking a break from furry. Well, time to explain myself. This will also help to explain what happen to a good friend of a bunch of you out there-- Pandora.

Many of you asked me to send her a couple of messages to her, and I wish I could-- but the reality was I hardly even talked to her myself. Due to situations in her RL life, she has become very scarce, ultimately deciding to leave the fandom until she can get herself back on track. I waited for as long as I could, communicating sparcely through emails, emotionally, but I couldn't wait any longer.

We ultimately decided to separate.

I'll be honest, the whole thing really hurt me. A lot. You might not have noticed it though, cause I don't go emo and complain to everyone all the time. But still, when you're hurt, you're hurt, and you gotta deal with it like everyone else. Unfortunately, that's life.

I haven't broken down yet. I can't really 'cry'; I basically taught myself how to hold in my emotions and bottle them up. One day it's gonna come out though, I just hope it's not when I'm with someone.

But I have to move on, one thing at a time. Get my lizard butt out there and start being cute and slutty again, and try -really- hard not to let this change me. Because, well, I like being who I am and you crazy animal lovers always get me smiling and grinning with your crazy arts, witty comments and posts, delightful stories, and funny conversations when we chat.

Thank you all for just... well, just for being you.

So, in light of all this, and in the spirit of moving on, I'll mention this:

I offered to help ICE (see, FA, account: ICEman) with the edits of his recent comic, which he agreed to. I didn't start doing it until his last couple of panels, so you look at his uploads you can see the grammatical differences.

But, in the overall scheme of things, I got a kick out of helping him with his work and got the same offer to help him with his later work. This is one of the many things I've always wanted to do with furry-- help/work with comic ideas. So that kept me in good spirits.

So, I hope to see you about on YIM, MSN, FM, Taps, or SL one of these days. :)

(Also, anyone willing to work with me to do a character model sheet of Doral? I'm normally not demanding or picky with commissioners (ask around!), but since this would be a model sheet I most likely will be very ass-hole-ish with making all the fine details as accurate as possible, which will consist of me asking for a number of adjustments and corrections. Anyone willing to put up with that? I'll pay handsomely.)

Awesomeness

2006-08-20T04:45:52Z

So I picked up Metroid 2 for the GC again after not playing it for a couple of years. All I have to say is this:

The Echo Visor makes the COOLEST effect I've seen in a video game in a LOOOOOOONG time.

Hmmmm...

2006-08-15T20:34:46Z

FurAffinity seems to be down.

... oh, look. A book.

Greetings from a Distance!

2006-07-17T21:42:10Z

Howdy ya'll! Just taking a moment to let you know that I'm okay. :)

Am I coming back? Well, not quite. I'm still doing my own thing, so I'm still keeping myself sparse. But, with all the art and writings and LJ posts I've been seeing... man, ya'll making it hard to stay away. :)

Although, maybe I should stay away from furry more often. Lots of good things been happening:

1) Had a big conflict over an unauthorized credit card payment. They were going to force me to pay for something I didn't purchase, cause I didn't contact them in time. So I contacted the Better Business Bureau. I don't know what they did, but suddenly, they credited my account the money. I'm convinced the BBB has serious mob ties-- but whatever family they kidnapped, I don't have to pay the money! Yay!

2) Been hanging out with friends recently, going to bars and having a good time. So that's been cool.

3) Hung out with a whole crew of furs on Thursday-- Sue, Bennie, Wolf, Sabrewing, Kutztown, Gideon, Teasel, Duncan, Vulp, Astor, and Kagemushi. Holy God that was fun. I never felt so relaxed in my life, being able to just chill and joke around with folks. I even got alot of Dartmarth-woes off my chest thanks to the certain cockroach. But it was cool-- I learned to eat with chopsticks at my first Hibachi restaurant, then I had my first go at scrapple the next morning! Hells yeah! Next week it's caviar and fine cheeses, then spam and grits! Cause it's how we do! Don't hate, folks. Please, stop the hatin'.

As an addendum, we saw some really old WB/MGM/Disney cartoons from the wartime/50s era. So there were alot of anti-Nazi stuff (yay!) as well as some pretty racy racial stuff (boo!). Tex Avery is god: luring the world's smallest pigmy out with watermelon is FTW. :D

4) Started working out again, running 2 miles everyday. Once I start eating healthier again I'll be really set!

5) I been working on stories, which has probably been the best thing my time off has been used for. I'm having a blast writing them too, so it's not like torture or anything. I got three in the works, so I'm hoping to have 'em done quite soon.

That's it for now. Until my next post, here, has some cereal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1I_ozVln3w&search=nigga%20please

Sometimes You Just Gotta Know When to Step Back

2006-07-08T17:12:32Z

I'm going to take a break from furry for a while.

Now, don't panic. I'll be 'around', still checking FA and VCL and stuff. I'll be on YIM, MSN, and Mucks, but significantly less for the time being. I'll still be accessible through email and PMs and such.

It's not that I need to get my life straight, cause it is, relatively. I just.... I've been very depressed recently, for the past 2 months actually. Both RL and VR have been wanning on me, sapping my energy and my motivation. I hate being depressed, and those of you that know me know I rarely get this down. But I've been blocking this feeling for a long time, and now I need to let it out, and I don't want to be around such close friends when I do.

I'm a nice person, I think, but for some reason it has been recently biting me in the ass.

I just need to back off a bit.

Damn Dial-Up

2006-07-01T01:33:05Z

If I been scarce, it's because I've been stuck on dial-up for the last couple of days. I posted about it on my FA account, but basically its cause my DSL line was disconnected by my mother. Tomorrow my brother is going to pick up a cable modem kit and try installing cable instead of DSL. Think I can do it, and re-configure my wireless network all between 8:00am and 2:00pm? I hope so.

In other news, still in the market for a new computer, but I'm starting to lean towards a mac, cause in reality my need for stable video editing software outweighs my need to play games-- besides, I don't play alot of computer games anyway since I have my consoles. Just macs are so damn expensive.

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So.... who's your current obssessed hottie fur? Mine is J. Axer's Leigh. :9

Before AC, day 2....

2006-06-24T06:48:53Z

I just had to share this:

Behold! My imposter!

Sit on him!

Con: Day 1

2006-06-22T02:55:36Z

I might have done this earlier if it wasn't for my mess of impersonators.

Con reports are cool, but long n' boring. I was wondering instead if I should just post pictures and add witty captions, or write an anthropomorphic version of con events. Then I thought, why not both? So, without further ado, here are Thursday's Con Pictures!

(Email me if you don't want your picture shown. Beware: these pictures are GINORMOUS.)

Okay, here's kutztowndragon and erdwolf_tvl. I'm in camaflouge. I know the image is kinda blurry here, so its hard to tell which species is who.

There, that's better.

This is Infigan. Had a little trouble fitting his wings in the van. So he burned a hole in the ceiling. Sunroof!

We stopped at a Dunkin Donuts on the way to AC. kutztowndragon and Infigan laughed when I burned my tongue on coffee. Firey breathers think they're the shit. Oh well, I got like 12 feet of tongue left.

This is a field we stopped by so erdwolf_tvl could grab some ants to munch on. Ewww.

*chews on cockroach*

Ahh, Pittsburg. Two seconds after this picture was taken Kitana stomped by, knocking over buildings and stuff. We waved.

Okay, I know it's hard to see nikkyvix over hir giant boobs, but looks above the cleavage, I swear hir head is there.

Ahh, Ian, (aka sarahskunkie). Horny skunk bois always pose like that. Cute tail, no?

mystiskunk waves shyly from the corner of the room. Again, the hand is indeed visible over that chest. You gotta look hard. Hah! I said hard.

susandeer and prismo sit as they wait for their plate of leaves for dinner. I don't get herbaviors-- although, the walla does look as if he's in the mood for a bit of venison. Had to tame him.

From left to right: Misty, Niko, Oni, Doral (me!), Ian, and Chessia. I assure you, we didn't have an orgy in Dave and Busters. Although the urge was tempting.

Ahh, felixnminerva and his bunny friend, Dante. Felix was delayed: his package couldn't fit on the plane! Dante helped him relieve some pressure so it could fit. Yay!

Gander at the rest at http://www.macrophile.com/~doral/anthrocon06/Thursday/! Friday's picture show is coming up next!

ALERT!!!!!!!!!

2006-06-20T20:49:12Z

There is someone impersonating me on AIM.

Right now I am in the process of destroying the account completely. If, for any reason, a 'Dorallizard' instant messages you from AIM, it is NOT me. I repeat, it is NOT me.

I'll still around on mucks, SL, and Yahoo, but American Online is strictly no man's land.

Please, spread the word.

Back from AC

2006-06-19T04:13:03Z

I'm back home, unfortunately. I'm sorry I couldn't say bye to many of you at AC, but Kutz and I had to get back home so I could catch the bus on time. But holy god, did I have fun. I really needed this. :)

I'll make a report sometime this weekend, when everyone else finally returns home as well.

Road to Anthrocon

2006-06-14T12:16:32Z

o/~We're off on the road to Anthrocon! And we won't stop until we get there!
When we can chill and just relax lay up on our butts,
And waste all of our hard-earned cash on juicy furry smut! o/~

Such a songwriter.

Anyway, I decided that while I'm not having fun I'll be helping Kutztown at his table promoting his White Guilt DVD. I'm the star, afterall. :P Plus, it'll keep me stationary so people can say hi to me instead of me looking for everyone else. :)

See ya'll later!

AC-ness!

2006-06-12T03:50:14Z

Alright, who's going to this con? :)

Also, Nikky, what's your email?

Cultural Remisinterpretation

2006-06-08T03:30:55Z

In a world where the instantaneous influx of information is the norm, there is also the huge problem of deciphering it all. Like the Matrix alludes to, the difference in information and interpreting it is humanity's biggest developing problem, often influences not by a legitimate means of understanding but by the distracting hear-say of the multitudes of informations, the medium through which it is delivered, and the temporal/spatial context with which it is set. This dangerous phenomenon, which Doral calls Cultural Remisinterpretation, takes the real-time events and reduces it to information, a "neutral" substances that then can be altered through other information, media, and contexts.

VHS.

Remember this device? VHS were the means in which the public consumed movies when studios felt they were ready to be released for home viewing. A black box with film inside, the VHS tape was perfectly acceptable to audiences when they wanted to "rent a flick."

The advent of DVDs, however, created more than a different means to watch the film. The idea of better quality, sound, and picture is only part of the DVD discourse that exists-- it is the only discourse the public seems to acknowledge. However, the thrust of the discourse should be the way-- nay, the ease-- in which the public deems the DVD superior to the VHS in viewing pleasures. It has gotten to the point that VHS movies are not merely "inferior" but "unwatchable"; people have thrown away their VCRs completely; the admission to watching a film on VHS is now akin to some sort of modern day technological blasphemy.

The oddity here, however, becomes apparent when we view the similar transition between music cassettes and CDs. There was no transition-- just the general public's acceptance of either-or, the questionable but irrelevant choice between the mediums of music consumption. Music companies marketed both at the same time, and the choice of purchase primarily rested on financial means. The CD/digital music phase is, in comparison, much different, in that the CD is now in the place of the "unwatchable" (in this case, unlistenable), with the public's preference, or should I say submission, to the mp3 audio takeover.

The problem here becomes obvious if, say, the viewer of a film or listener to a song somehow has convince the public to authenticate their experience if the medium is that of the "untouchable." Somehow, public consumption have made the medium itself part of the experience, even though the experience itself is the same. How often have people said "you haven't seen Lord of the Rings until you've seen it on DVD"? Why should it matter in terms of VHs or DVD, or the big screen for that matter? Circumstances make some viewings impossible, but in this day and age impossibility is no longer an excuse. Technological assertion isn't the problem. It isn't about some innate ability of mankind to want to "control" his entertainment (or for the broader picture, consumption). The issue is much more direct than that.

Cultural Remisinterpretation

Clearly, the experience of watching a movie has no relation to the medium in which it is watched. Nor do the viewing of special features or bonus tracks. Missing 40% of the screen is not equivalent to missing 40% of the movie. Why are phenomenological discourse so strong today?

The answer is in this notion of Cultural Remisinterpretation (CR). CR, as I define it, takes an event, object, concept, etc., and makes it more about that specific event, object, or concept. CR is the single reason we have so many global and national crises, political fallout, historical disasters, and so on. The information itself is clear-cut and definite. The contexts, medium, and the relational elements of other forms of information makes the original information itself into something else, something that the public willingly accepts as a truth.

This "truth" limits public interpretation of information and perverts it in a form of CR that fits a paradigm specific to a purpose. Whether in the DVD-over-VHS paradigm or the Iraq-has-WMDs paradigm, the information is no longer relevant, but everything else is. It's like the receivers of information has become as gossipy as a suburban housewife-- we're always nosy about everything else and not the real information handed to us. We desire information clear, spoon-fed, thorough-- as Primo suggested on his discourse on the "preference" of Google. Face-to-face dissemination of information has given way to the internet speed-and-search power of a search engine. Even though the information, either way, is always the same, the Google preference is now the Google "acceptance," where as the "old" ways of information dissemination is not only an "other" but an "unthinkable."

New Orleans-- That Bad Place

At first I was rather surprised and amazed that there was so much discourse against the rebuilding of New Orleans. I couldn't logically fit together the reasoning behind the influx of anti-rebuilding sentiment. But, in terms of CR, it is much clearly obvious to me.

New Orleans is an American city. When an American city is destroyed by whatever mean, normal discourse tends to advocate its rebuilding. Chicago, London, Washington DC itself-- all cities that were rebuilt after their initial destructions. Now, what makes New Orleans different, at first, is the means in which the city was destroyed-- in this case, by a severe hurricane.

Suddenly, discourse has re-aligned itself with emphasizing the means of destruction as a precursor to the legitimization of rebuilding. Since it was destroyed in an area known for large hurricane, it seemed "dumb" to rebuild in the same area. Discourse also laid blame on the citizens of the city, in their "foolish" reactions to the storm, their bad choices and judgments. This also was hidden under the discourse of a failed FEMA and government that didn't achieve immediate rescue. What these arguments gave way into a larger discourse of man vs. nature, of apparently mankind's desire to triumph over-- or at least test-- nature's power.

What?

Speaking along the lines of the information itself, rebuilding New Orleans shouldn't be an issue. As an American city, it should be treated as such, and when an American city is destroyed, it is rebuilt. There is no debate. The fact there is one now underlies the intense amount of CR that makes the medium, context, and informations more credible that the original information itself-- that, simply, an American city was destroyed. All the informations mentioned above made the idea suddenly "ludicrous." The context-- a post 9/11, conservative ideology-- added to the sentiment. And the medium-- a hurricane, vs. a gas fire or nuclear attack-- made the information itself not the information itself. All three points ran in tandem to the original information presented.

This is dangerous. Historically speaking, such over the top discourse has never been so prevalent in terms of cities. The man over nature ideology is not only false, but has no relevance to the original information. Man seeks no natural conquest, but a simple propagation of its species within its habitat. Floods in the South, tornadoes in the Midwest, earthquakes in Southern California, wildfires in Northern California haven't gave way to this kind of discourse. Why New Orleans? Hell, Geemo, a few years back, repeatedly noted the influx of hurricanes striking the Florida state-- and even then, with the destruction it cause, there was no rebuilding debate.

Those prior instances, however, didn't have a failed government response or a poor inner-city reaction. These to elements made the meaning different, thus the information somehow a different type of information, when in fact the issues are the same thing. CR may even be factored in terms of class/racial difference, arguably an element which may alter the reception of the original information. Poor people can't move immediate, and we know this, but in terms of CR, they "should". Like we know a movie is a movie, in terms of CR, DVDs are not only better, but VHS films are "unwatchable"

Tomorrow's discourse I shall focus on Bush's policies and ideology, as well as Bourgios' study of inner-city culture.

I Am Done.... And Spent

2006-06-05T22:35:03Z

That's it ya'll. I finished my 120 (well, 113) paged script for my Screenwriting class, finished my 5 paged take-home exam for my Cultural Anthropology class, and last night I completed my 8 paged (9 if you count the footnotes, 10 if you count the pictures) paper for my Film Theory class. I am spent.

I spent the last five terms at school basically, and my brain and body are shot. All I really want to do is sleep all the time. Thank god AC is -next- weekend and not this one. I can actually relax!

Oh, btw, Kage, I understand. I officially hate Dartmouth with a passion. I never seen a place with so many kids that know so much but understand so little. Anyone who doesn't conform to their ways of thinking are basically outcasted-- and this from a school where you read SO many intellectual musings about that kind of mentality. I have so many opinions now about stuff thanks to that school that I might be hated in the next few days because I'm gonna post 'em here. :P

One more year and I'm done.