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Comment on Parents: Wanted – Dead or Alive by Rachael

Rachael — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:48:26 +0000

Well you have to think about who these book are targeting: Pre-teens. I took a media literacy class recently and we discussed what advertisers and such do in order to target this audience. We talked about how in pre-teen advertisements they are often a lack of parents or if they do contain adults, the adults act like children, or are beaten by children. For example, In the television show on Disney called Phineas and Ferb,these children constantly out smart not only the man-child villain, but also manage to trick their mother who by the way is barely in the show. That is just one example. In commercials for tricks yogurt the kids refuse to share their yogurt with the sticky fingered rabbit because, “trick are for kids.” Advertisers have studied this age group and concluded that pre-teens like the idea of independence and a world without parents. So it actually makes a lot of sense that the books they are reading also convey the same message.

Comment on The HAPPY Birthday Mix by marymo

marymo — Mon, 09 May 2011 17:38:50 +0000

WORD!!

Comment on The HAPPY Birthday Mix by Paula

Paula — Mon, 09 May 2011 17:37:56 +0000

Yes. We are all sorts of awesome.

Comment on Mix: Music That Moves Me by marymo

marymo — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:33:13 +0000

I wrote much more about this on my LJ but it’s f-locked so that my more private thoughts aren’t on here.

Comment on Mix: Music That Moves Me by Chris K

Chris K — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:31:20 +0000

There’s an amazing a cappella version of “Magic” that Ben Folds put out on his “Collegiate A Cappella” CD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_zLOnDnFpw

I have this on my playlist I’m working on. It’s always moved me as well.

Comment on Cheddar Dill Scones by marymo

marymo — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:49:32 +0000

You’re so good to me. :)

Comment on Cheddar Dill Scones by Bree

Bree — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:01:43 +0000

I can totally help you out by taking one or two of those off your hands. ;) They look totally nommy!

Comment on This year for halloween… by Paula

Paula — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:18:07 +0000

Indeed, you are awesome. All sorts of awesome.

Comment on Inclement Weather Planning A La Mo by Kat

Kat — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:11:57 +0000

Hey my first reaction when hearing storms/tornadoes/lightning/neighbor’s house exploding is ‘I’m gonna get my camera and go outside.’ So.. perhaps the reaction is a Toledo contagion.

Comment on Inclement Weather Planning A La Mo by LC

LC — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:19:30 +0000

Random, disjointed!response is random and disjointed!

“So far today I’ve been in a train and a room, a car and a room, and a room and a room.” Pretty much sums up a lot of that trip.

For the record, storms in and of themselves don’t bother me as much as they did when I was a kid. Senior year I did the 6th grade camp cabin leader thing for Andrea. When you have to be the grown up in the situation, you learn to stop freaking out really quickly.I’ve been ok with storms ever since… just not the idea of tornados.

I did the toys in a bag in the basement thing too. I’m kinda amazed at how many people I know have done that at one time or another.

And given the picture’s placement, am I meant to be pouty Jensen, ’cause I’m strangely ok with that.