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Take Your Blazer and Get Out.: June 2009
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Take Your Blazer and Get Out. Sunday, June 28, 2009. Today I met Lisa's friend Phil and a bunch of his friends for lunch. Lisa and Phil, as you long time readers may recall, are the reason I got the idea to come here in the first place. So anyway, it was a great big awesome queerfest. I got tons of interesting info for my doc. We're all going out gay clubbing next Friday - for research purposes, of course. The two of them, giggling like schoolgirls, concocted an entire survey. "How was the service? Don't...
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Take Your Blazer and Get Out.: Old new journalist encounters new new journalism; is bewildered.
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Take Your Blazer and Get Out. Saturday, February 6, 2010. Old new journalist encounters new new journalism; is bewildered. I did a class presentation on Tom Wolfe last week and I stumbled upon this interview. With Tom Wolfe. I still can't get over it. In case you're too lazy to click the link, here's how it goes:. New York: Hi. I'm Tim from New York magazine. Tom Wolfe: Hello, Tim. You don't do podcasts, do you? Brief pause for understandable disorientation.]. New York: You don't know what podcasts are?
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Take Your Blazer and Get Out.: A thoughtful analysis of the 2010 Olympic opening ceremonies
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Take Your Blazer and Get Out. Saturday, February 13, 2010. A thoughtful analysis of the 2010 Olympic opening ceremonies. I have one of those lefty, urban, ivory tower liberal arts undergraduate degrees they love to hate on Fox News. That means I can't open a newspaper or turn on the TV without analyzing how what I'm reading or watching reinforces or resists the gendered, racialized and class-based structures of power that underpin society. Immigrant communities joined the Aboriginal Peoples and danced wi...
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Take Your Blazer and Get Out.: August 2009
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Take Your Blazer and Get Out. Wednesday, August 26, 2009. So I have this new job. I'm the "TA Mentor" for journalism. Basically, the idea is that an experienced TA helps new TAs with training and support. I was invited to apply for this job in the spring and I did, without having much information about what I was getting myself into. Great," they said. "We can schedule you in for one hour.". So what else do you think you should do throughout the year, since you don't think anyone will come to workshops?
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Take Your Blazer and Get Out.: September 2009
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Take Your Blazer and Get Out. Sunday, September 27, 2009. Goin' on a coug hunt, gonna catch a big one. Sometimes I'm amazed by how easy journalism can be. Sometimes you get lucky and things just fall right into your lap. That was the case on Friday night. I want to preserve some material here that I’m not sure will make it in. I won’t use full names because these people probably would rather not have this blog come up if someone googles them. Joe, 25-year-old cougar bait/cougar hunter. On why he love...
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Take Your Blazer and Get Out.: October 2009
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Take Your Blazer and Get Out. Monday, October 26, 2009. To whom it may concern:. Dear major national newspaper/public broadcaster/Starbucks:. I believe I am an excellent candidate for a summer position as a reporter/chase producer/barista. Working with your newspaper/radio or television show/franchise would be an important stepping stone on the path to my career goals as a James Bond-like international correspondent/Rachel Maddow/broke 20-something who lives with her parents. Posted by Claire Brownell.
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Take Your Blazer and Get Out.: May 2010
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Take Your Blazer and Get Out. Monday, May 17, 2010. The meaning of blog. My blog is having an existential crisis right now. What is the meaning of its life? What is the purpose of updating it? Who am I trying to communicate with and why? Posted by Claire Brownell. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). May 3, 2009, The Canadian Press: Communities opposed to new sludge rules. April 23, 2009, The Canadian Press: Wedding dress protest highlights immigration woes. June 5, 2009, CBC.ca: Online news goes local (audio...
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Take Your Blazer and Get Out.: December 2009
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Take Your Blazer and Get Out. Saturday, December 26, 2009. A series of questions. I got a collection of articles by Lester Bangs for Christmas. He was a rock music critic in the '70s for Rolling Stone. His writing is in the same "new journalism" category as Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe - first person, stream of consciousness, lots of parties and drugs and weirdos, etc. This has inspired a series of questions. 1) Whatever happened to this "new journalism? Do we even have youth subcultures any more?
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Take Your Blazer and Get Out.: May 2009
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Take Your Blazer and Get Out. Thursday, May 28, 2009. Discovered - Howard Owens and TheBatavian.com. If you follow me on Twitter, you already know that I really wanted to go to a summit on the future of journalism. That's right: It's possible. It can be done. Put the noose back in the drawer and break out the champagne, J-kids: There's a chance we're not going to starve to death. He was helped along by a few major things. First, he started out with a $5000 a month advertising budget from GateHouse Me...
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Take Your Blazer and Get Out.: How I work on my MRP
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Take Your Blazer and Get Out. Sunday, February 21, 2010. How I work on my MRP. My MRP, by the way, is that thing I went to Malaysia to research. And am now expected to turn into a knock-your-socks-off radio documentary). 1) Put aside an entire day to work on it. 2) Go to the gym, grocery shop, clean the apartment, read the paper and faff around on the internet. 3) Holy @#$%, it's 4:00 pm. 4) Open the word document with my script. 6) Mentally prepare myself to look at it. 8) Make a few small changes.
