Question: How do Buzzell’s blog posts fulfill Didion’s ambitions for the journal? What’s are major differences (if any) between the two mediums, as shown through Buzzell’s and Didion’s? How do you use electronic writing/texting/e-mailing/etc/etc/etc compared any differently than Buzzell’s blogging or Didion’s concept of journaling?
Buzzell’s posts are his own experiences and how he dealt with them. Buzzell writes in his journal to remember things later on, so he wont forget what happened to him that day. He writes to fulfill that void of being alone and not talking with people about his hardship during his stay in the war. Buzzell fulfills Didion’s ambitions for journals by writing things down the way he sees it. He writes in vivid detail about how car bombs go off, and how he can tell the different sounds of explosions because he grew to get use to them.
They’re really no major differences. The only difference I can come up with is that Didion writes about things that didn’t really happen, and if they did, it wasn’t the way she saw them happening. On the other hand, Buzzell writes about things he actually saw day in and day out when he was station in the time of the War. He writes to inform people how hard it can be to be in Iraq. All the ups and downs of the war. Like, Buzzell told a story about how an Iraqi gave him and one of his buddy a bag of ice. This shows that the war can bring out the good in people too, and not just the bad. He expresses good and bad times in Iraq.
I text all day long!!! I love texting. I text more than I talk on the phone because if you don’t want to hear someone’s voice, you can text them instead; also, with text messages you can reply back whenever you want. I think I depend on electronic writing more than what I need to, because its faster to type things than to write out things to me. Also, you can send the same message to multiple people at once and they will all get it at the same time. although you can do that in a hand written letter/message, but it wont be as efficient enough, fast enough, or very convenience like using an electronic writing program.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
"Consider the Lobster"
In “Consider the Lobster,” David Foster Wallace reports on the events of the Maine Lobster Fest and the thoughts those events provoke. What’s effective about his approach of exploring the ideas surrounding MLF? What’s not effective about the approach? What other thoughts do you have about how Wallace approaches the MLF?
In "Consider the Lobster," David Foster Wallace talks about ideas about the Maine Lobster Festival(MLF). He talks about how there's much more to know then most of us care about. He states in the 1800's, lobsters were called low-class food. Now it's a whole new world, where lobsters are considered to be for the upper-classes and not for the "poor" anymore. Wallace states that lobsters were once ruled to be cruel and unusual to eat, but not now, everybody enjoys to eat them now-a-days. Except me. I hate eating lobsters. I only had them about twice in my entire life, because I think it takes way to much work to eat them!! I just like simple foods, because I'm a simple guy. I never knew that lobsters are essentially called "a summer food!" I thought people ate them all year around, and that's why they got sick all year around when they eat too much of them. Ohh well I don't have to worry about that problem, because I don't eat them.
Wallace doesn't see that it's necessary for us to inflict pain on them in order to eat them. It's unbearble to watch them suffer while they are dying. I think that Wallace hates the idea of lobsters being boiled alive and thinks it's cruel for people to do so. other animals suffer in the same way, but this is how we as a nation survive!! other people kills and prepare or foods for us, and there isn't a whole lot for us to do on that note. We have to eat!! but I still feel bad for all the animals that have to die for us to survive. I found that the nervous system of a lobster is very similar to the nervous system of a grasshopper. That's very interesting, and maybe good to know? I dont know, but its kind of fascinating!
In "Consider the Lobster," David Foster Wallace talks about ideas about the Maine Lobster Festival(MLF). He talks about how there's much more to know then most of us care about. He states in the 1800's, lobsters were called low-class food. Now it's a whole new world, where lobsters are considered to be for the upper-classes and not for the "poor" anymore. Wallace states that lobsters were once ruled to be cruel and unusual to eat, but not now, everybody enjoys to eat them now-a-days. Except me. I hate eating lobsters. I only had them about twice in my entire life, because I think it takes way to much work to eat them!! I just like simple foods, because I'm a simple guy. I never knew that lobsters are essentially called "a summer food!" I thought people ate them all year around, and that's why they got sick all year around when they eat too much of them. Ohh well I don't have to worry about that problem, because I don't eat them.
Wallace doesn't see that it's necessary for us to inflict pain on them in order to eat them. It's unbearble to watch them suffer while they are dying. I think that Wallace hates the idea of lobsters being boiled alive and thinks it's cruel for people to do so. other animals suffer in the same way, but this is how we as a nation survive!! other people kills and prepare or foods for us, and there isn't a whole lot for us to do on that note. We have to eat!! but I still feel bad for all the animals that have to die for us to survive. I found that the nervous system of a lobster is very similar to the nervous system of a grasshopper. That's very interesting, and maybe good to know? I dont know, but its kind of fascinating!
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