If one were wondering about the purpose of blogs and blogging, and especially if one were comparing the genre of weblog to academic discourse, it would be too easy to devalue the power and social consequence of self-sponsored digital writing.
Especially if the blogger were merely writing about her cats. Or LOL speak. Or stuff like [...]
Archive for February, 2008
The significance of cats
February 25, 2008How can you do that to a cat??????
February 21, 2008
Kevin’s former boss just posted these pictures to his blog. Why would anyone do that to his cat?
So of course, Kevin had to do it too. Here is Tiger Lily as purrito.
And one with Kevin’s new jazz hat
But notice that Ralph was not impressed. It takes more than fancy clothes to make an impression on [...]
Michael and Wanda Dodd’s cats
February 14, 2008This weekend I met the most wonderful cats, ever. I wanted to take pictures, and could only borrow the owners’ camera. Now I don’t have the images. I’m sad. The owners are Michael Dodd and his wife, Wanda. Dodd works with Kevin.
Wanda showed me a picture of her 3 cats all atop of her when she was [...]
Picturing life when languaging fails
February 3, 2008
In my English 301 class, I’ve been teaching about blogging as a social action, and we read a cool piece of scholarship that theorizes why bloggers blog. What do they get out of it? How is the whacked-out genre of personal diary expressed to the world functioning in the lives of the millions of people [...]
Ralph with a cookbook
February 3, 2008LaRae made a comment about Ralph cooking. Actually, here he is, comtemplating the cookbook.
Professor Pumpkin Puss
February 2, 2008Ralph Ames (a character in J. A. Jance novels) is aka Professor Pumpkin Puss. He has a pale orange spot on his nose and under his chin. It looks as if he was lapping the pumpkin pie. There’s also a trace of it on his front paws. He probably needed to hold the pan steady.
He’s [...]
