A color study made in Painter that I believe is turning out well. It may eventually be part of a larger piece.
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Describing archetypal characters from romantic comedies:
The Ethereal Weirdo
The smart and funny writer Nathan Rabin coined the term Manic Pixie Dream Girl to describe this archetype after seeing Kirsten Dunst in the movie “Elizabethtown.” This girl can’t be pinned down and may or may not show up when you make concrete plans with her. She wears gauzy blouses and braids. She likes to dance in the rain and she weeps uncontrollably if she sees a sign for a missing dog or cat. She might spin a globe, place her finger on a random spot, and decide to move there. The Ethereal Weirdo appears a lot in movies, but nowhere else. If she were from real life, people would think she was a homeless woman and would cross the street to avoid her. But she is essential to the male fantasy that even if a guy is boring he deserves a woman who will find him fascinating and perk up his dreary life by forcing him to go skinny-dipping in a stranger’s pool.
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This is a real e-mail that I had occasion to write yesterday. This… is my life.
Hi there.
So, we put our heads together on this issue, and this is the best solution we could determine.
The 6th Edition of the Publication Manual for the American Psychological Association provides instructions for how to cite a music recording on page 210.
52. Music Recording
lang, k. d. (2008). Shadow and the frame. On Watershed [CD]. New
York, NY: Nonesuch RecordsIn text citations, include side and band or track numbers: “Shadow and the Frame” (lang, 2008, track 10).
Note that the musician’s chosen capitalization overrules conventions of the English language, in which first letters of names are capitalized. One problem you may run into, I’m afraid, is that there may not be a known author, or known date of publication, nor may there be an album from which one could gather publication information.
We feel that you could easily make the case that “Old MacDonald” is considered “common knowledge,” and therefore not in need of citation. If you choose to cite it, however, you’re going to type:
n. d. Old MacDonald.
And that’s it. (n. d. simply means “no date.”) You likely don’t know a date, author, or publication information. An in-text citation, then, would look like this: And on that farm there was a pig (“Old MacDonald,” n. d.).
Finally, note that if you’re citing a specific version of “Old MacDonald” from a specific recording, you will need to cite the song as provided above for the music recording with as much information as you have available.
Hope this helps!
Patrick Wilson
Webster University Writing Center
in looking up the colour mummy brown i found many people (moms?) calling themselves “mummy brown” and that’s gross, moms
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-25) -
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I love this little guy. Mix 2 parts chai concentrate to one part milk over ice = cold drink nirvana.
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Missouri Botanical Gardens (gewd night)
September 4 2011
We saw you!
Also, I like this picture a lot.
“‘Don’t be morbid,’ Jordan said. ‘Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.’” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via storygoes)
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“Hours later, the cat was asleep, and Erin lay next to it, her eyes half-closed. There was purring. I felt content. Why does it give so much comfort to be responsible for someone’s sleep? We all — don’t we? — want creatures sleeping in our homes while we walk about, turning off lights.” —
Dave Eggers, from “Quiet” in How We Are Hungry
Yes. And that feeling of being in bed when you’re 7 and knowing there’s a light on downstairs and you know that your parents are down there washing dishes or talking or watching late night TV.
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The first sentence of the article:
When 35-year-old singer-songwriter Josh Ritter was in college at Oberlin in the mid-90s, he created his own major: “American History Through Narrative Folk Music.”
Clearly, I missed my calling.