November 2010
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The International Journal of Press/Politics
Anyone around these parts have online access to The International Journal of Press/Politics? I’m aiming to read a full article, and I’m clearly not international or pressy or politicky enough to see more than just the abstract. I’ll promise to love you if you do.
Anyone?
UPDATE: Holy crap, you guys. The people who have sent (or offered to send) the article are just wonderful....
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The Science of Satire: SUBMIT, SUBMIT! →
scienceofsatire:
Hi everyone.
Compiling examples of satire is as much fun as explaining a Far Side comic over the phone to your elderly aunt. BUT IT MUST BE DONE.
Look, I know you guys are all funny. And I also know you swipe funny and satirical images left and right as you visit the vast, dark corners of the internet. So I’ll get straight to the point:
I need you, and I need those images...
“How drunk are you, on a scale of ‘1’ to ‘London’?”
– Anna, dead asleep, as I stumbled into bed after a night out with the men.
The thing about Anna being funny while she’s dead asleep is that she has absolutely no recollection of any of it. The thing about Londoners is that they’re all raging alcoholics and have absolutely no recollection...
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A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues: A table of... →
If you don’t happen to follow While You Were Sleeping, it’s absolutely worth it for enticing, thoughtful projects like this: summaries of Comte-Sponville’s A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues. The following is her original ‘Table of Contents’ post. Good, good stuff, and a perfect entry (for dummies like me) into thinking about what it is to Be.
What I’m trying to...
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