This week's blog

Hey all,
As you can see your blogs are listed to the right of this post now, so make sure you check each other's blogs out and post comments.

For this week's post, I'd like you to think of a pop-culture reference that has something to do with literacy or with being a writer. This can be a movie, book, TV show, video...you name it. Actually, don't just name it, talk about it here for a bit. In what ways does this particular reference confirm or contradict your own experiences with writing and reading? What about the experience you've now heard from each other and your interviewee? If you can find a youtube clip or picture to add to your post, please do. You can use the little movie icon or the picture icon in the toolbar above the posting box (when you post on your blog) to add these elements. try to do this by Friday.

Remember that you should type up a version of your interview for class tomorrow (Wed), and bring in your literacy narratives we read last week as well as the notes you took. If you have them, please bring in scissors and tape (and extras for others if you have those). Thanks.

Here is an example to get us rolling:

I think of this as a stereotypical university writer. Not a healthy one, mind you, but stereotypical in many ways. The movie has elements of alcohol abuse, drug use, sexual innuendo, and the writer/teacher has absolutely no control over his life. I guess this applies mainly to stereotypes of "creative" writers (a term that bothers me because it implies that writing anything that is not literary is somehow not an act of creation). I've known a lot of young (ish) writers who seem to be aiming for this stereotype as a model for a writer, as if the more screwed up you are, the better you will write. The movie, happily, eventually disproves this theory.