Hello everyone,
This blog has been created for an English class at the University of Central Oklahoma. In it, I will narrate how academic and popular culture (referred to as Albert and Fred respectively) are trying to slowly kill each other in order to take over my consciousness (referred to as Brain), ala Spy vs. Spy in a Descartes-like thought experiment.
"I said switch off, Albert", shouted Fred as he made his sluggish way to Brain's neural cortex.
"I can't switch off; I'm downloading syllabus content into Brain's short-term memory stem. If I don't do this now, Brain's waves will further dissapate," said an agitated Albert while he hovered over a lump of matter that would one day surely become cancerous.
"But if you don't hurry up, I can't livewire the Doctor Who protocol into Brain's thought process before his blood sugar goes too low to think about it," retorted Fred.
"Why don't you eat some brain cells and leave me alone, you virus," whispered a historically-intimitated Albert.
Stay tuned for more of the action from my terminally-doomed brain.
-Mike Gee
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3 comments:
Mike,
I like your style.
Fred and Albert are struggling in my brain often as well. I suspect this is the case for many college students.
I keep trying to meld pop culture into my academic studies. Film studies can dance around the middle of this continuum.
Maybe you should stop the battle between Fred and Albert and simply invite them to a mixer. There could be chips and salsa. Maybe pigs-in-a-blanket?
We could invite Apollo and Dionysus. Goethe would appreciate it.
i am definetly anticipating the battle to come.
and i have a hard time believing these two can be mixed but then i am enrolled for graduate credit in a class studying blogging.
what's a girl to do?
Thank you both for your comments. This may change with time and maturity, but I feel like studying pop culture is just as important as studying any other genre or historical time period. But I also value personal accounts more than analytical research when I want to find out about something.
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