TSA Screeners Chat

Far too loudly on the Blue Line. "Remember looking at that bag and you thought you saw something but you turned it around and nothing showed up. Finally, we searched it and turned out to be a big*** knife. Too bad, we destroy that stuff, that was a good knife. And those brass knuckles... And the guy says, that wasn't in the bag before, I didn't pack that. Sure, that's what they all say. Like the guy who packed the loaded gun. We just call the police, not to arrest, they just file a report."

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They're Offering Sitcom Writing Next Quarter
It's listed under ENGL 13501 and cross-listed with ISHUM. I don't know what it means about the future of the University, but I hope we don't turn into that television writing haven otherwise known as Penn.

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I Feel Misled

Kurtz replied rather quickly with a story from the Chronicle of Higher Education. Ancheta apparently was speaking to a group of college administrators at a hotel in Chicago.

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Chicago Has A Point System?!!!

Or not as the Logopoet points out. Ancheta could have been speaking rhetorically. However, I've e-mailed Kurtz to ask about the context of Ancheta's comments.

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Buffy's Diploma is For Sale

And we'll throw in Indiana Jones' (AB, 1922) for only $9.95. Don't let the low feedback deceive you, this is a completely trustworthy fake item that was never used in the movies.

Other Matters

I've lived nearly twenty-one years on this Earth and no one until very recently ever has mentioned that my voice quivers like a girl. Apparently, it's true.

Lion, Witch, and The Wardrobe good, Matrix Revolutions bad. I wish not to say anything more eloquent until the readers of this blog who live with me have seen the movie. On the other hand, I think Christianity Today has missed the point in this article. , though I suspect the author hasn't yet seen the third movie. Hey, I might even change my mind.

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Author's Intention
I just realized why an author's intention cannot always be the basis for interpretation. When one incorporates elements of a prior tradition without full understanding of the intentions in that tradition, one does not negate the meanings of its tropes. And considering no literature exists in isolation, there are prior intentions of which the author could have no knowledge that easily could be locked within us (or as is rarely contended, not).

Yes, I'm being pretentious but I've been reading far too much post-modernist criticism of medieval Japanese drama lately.

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