Hormones have got my brain going “Understanding cyberethnographic redefinitions of traditional ethnographic methodological concerns? NOT TODAY, KIMBERLY!” So it’s a citation-chaining kinda day, I guess.
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My kid loves to know who’s singing the music we’re listening to so this morning when he asked who sings “Everything Is Awesome!” I told him @teganandsara and @thelonelyisland. He asked, “Is The Lonely Island lonely?” and I said, “I don’t think so, because it’s three friends.” Then he said, “What do they do?” and I tried to explain fake emcees to my toddler.
Kid at library (playing at train table): It’s Utopia! It’s disaster!
Librarian: But utopia is a good thing!
Kid: No it’s not! It’s evil!
Me: is impressed by kid’s perceptiveness
The longer I live, the more I begin to believe that My Actual People are only a very small subset of any apparent group of My People.
Skimming the headlines for The Ringer’s ‘99 Music Week really brings home for me the fact that I spent most of 1999 listening to movie and Broadway soundtracks that originated from 1986 - 1991. (Honorable mention to Dido’s “No Angel,” though.)
The year?s hottest hits turn 20. Here?s a deeper look into your favorite songs and albums of 1999.
I just sent off the comps chapter that refused to be finished to my committee. It’s been 9 weeks since I sent them the last chapter. It is less than 6 pages of prose and 5 pages of tables and figures. A lot of the writing is in the tables.
I want to mention the work that isn’t evident in the final product.
I spent a lot of time trying to decide if I was going to focus on one theory in this chapter or incorporate others. I read about them and considered. They’re going to end up in the next chapter instead. So that added some time.
I did a lot of trying to wrap my head around how different evolved versions of the theoretical concept at hand related to the original, and how I could synthesize them.
But also, I lost the equivalent of three weeks to travel and lack of childcare. So actually it did really only take me six weeks to write, which lines up with the earlier chapters… But I sure hope the next one goes faster.
It’s that thing where you’re almost done with a chapter of your comps lit review and you realize your conclusion will involve creating a whole new theoretical model that synthesizes all the literature you just described…
I’m crowdsourcing a superhero-themed playlist for my son, heavily Marvel/Avengers-slanted (esp. Age of Ultron era). So far:
- Iron Man - Cardigans cover
- Immigrant Song - John Craigie cover
- Theme from Spider-Man - Spider-Man: Homecoming version.
Looking for mellow or orchestral stuff more than metal. Suggest away!
I’ve been using “fanfiction” instead of “fan fiction” when writing my comps and sincerely hope nobody tries to come at me on this.
No YOU’RE developing a Super Why TRPG ruleset in your head because your almost-3-year-old is getting into collaborative storytelling.