UGC Week

UGC Week: Project Mixtape: Soundtrack

1 February 2010

C says, “Compile a 15-song soundtrack for your life so far.” What would a movie of your life be like? That’s the first question that I landed on when I started tackling this post.  Trying to imagine what kind of soundtrack requires a knowledge of the movie; is it a sweeping, strings-lush instrumental score, 80s [...]

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UGC Week: Tunes

28 January 2010

Bill says, “Recommend bands we should listen to and give us reasons why we should.” I think by dint of listening to a lot of music, a mistaken notion that I am smart about music exists among a lot of my friends. I don’t pretend to be; I just like what I like and I [...]

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UGC Week – Iambic Pentameter

27 January 2010

Caroline wants to know, “Do you know any poems by heart?  Are there ones you were forced to memorize/ones you decided to pick up on your own?  If you do have these floating around in your head, what do you use them for? If the memorization thing doesn’t apply, tell me about a poem you [...]

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UGC Week: Respectfully, No

27 January 2010

Perry demands: “Describe various acquaintances as comic book characters without explicitly saying who each is supposed to be, leaving it as an exercise for the reader to determine the secret identity of each.” This is fun for nobody. An interesting mental exercise, to be sure, but one that is preloaded with divisiveness. First of all, [...]

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UGC Week – Mr. Gatevackes

26 January 2010

More content of the user-generated variety ensues! Bill says: “Write a post about me!” So here goes that…. William Gatevackes is a garrulous drunk and an irascible curmudgeon of a gambler. He is a cheat and a liar and by that barometer of character he is the finest man I have ever known. I met [...]

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UGC Week – Gerard

25 January 2010

It’s User-Generated Content Week – a week where I do nothing but post about the stuff YOU asked for. Today’s topic comes from C: “Critique all your Gerard-given nicknames” Once, my girlfriend convinced her friend Gerard that my name was Fernando. He believed this for twenty minutes, believed it, I am told, with an almost [...]

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User-Generated Content Week

21 January 2010

One of the things that make blogs blogs, according to many social media ‘thought leaders’, is the comments section – the arena of interplay between the author and the reader. Well, through the magic of comments, I’m giving the reader a chance to steer while I put on a tie or send a really important [...]

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