Comments on: No Claim, No Support, No Warrant http://asmallx.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/no-claim-no-support-no-warrant/ Essays, Thoughts, and Randomocity from Mike Goldense Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:25:37 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Brittany B http://asmallx.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/no-claim-no-support-no-warrant/#comment-7 Brittany B Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:43:35 +0000 http://asmallx.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-7 I couldn't agree with you more. I think the problem is that I love writing but obviously I hate writing crappy essays. In a way I think writing crappy essays is a bit like having sex with a donkey. It's like this: most people enjoy sex - but would they want to do it with a donkey? Probably not. I love writing - but I hate writing about literature. And it's weird that I have to try to be good at something that I really don't like. And then it's even weirder when teachers tell me that I've done a good job doing something that I don't like. It's like they've just told me I've done a good job at having sex with a donkey. I just wish that teachers would teach things that are more applicable to my life. It's a selfish wish, but it would make my life a bit funner. My Critical Theory teacher tried to do this when we were learning about Marxist theory - she gave showed us this essay that was a Marxist analysis of the Simpsons (http://theproles.blogspot.com/2007/02/marxist-analysis-of-simpsons.html). Was it the most interesting thing I've ever read? Probably not - but it was WAY better than reading a Marxist analysis of say...Moby Dick. Oh well, at least I'm only taking one class this semester that requires me to write essays - and then I'm DONE! I couldn’t agree with you more.

I think the problem is that I love writing but obviously I hate writing crappy essays.

In a way I think writing crappy essays is a bit like having sex with a donkey. It’s like this: most people enjoy sex – but would they want to do it with a donkey? Probably not. I love writing – but I hate writing about literature. And it’s weird that I have to try to be good at something that I really don’t like. And then it’s even weirder when teachers tell me that I’ve done a good job doing something that I don’t like. It’s like they’ve just told me I’ve done a good job at having sex with a donkey.

I just wish that teachers would teach things that are more applicable to my life. It’s a selfish wish, but it would make my life a bit funner. My Critical Theory teacher tried to do this when we were learning about Marxist theory – she gave showed us this essay that was a Marxist analysis of the Simpsons (http://theproles.blogspot.com/2007/02/marxist-analysis-of-simpsons.html). Was it the most interesting thing I’ve ever read? Probably not – but it was WAY better than reading a Marxist analysis of say…Moby Dick.

Oh well, at least I’m only taking one class this semester that requires me to write essays – and then I’m DONE!

]]> By: matteo di carnovale the elder http://asmallx.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/no-claim-no-support-no-warrant/#comment-2 matteo di carnovale the elder Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:27:09 +0000 http://asmallx.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-2 "I’d rather read an essay about why Elliott Smith is an amazing musician than why Hawthorne Heights rulez da sk00lz." Now I understand where you were going with this, but I have to admit that I would be just as likely to read said essay on Hawthorne Heights because I really want to know why the fuck they "rulez da sk00lz" as I cannot--CANNOT--fathom why on earth they were ever held in any regard at all. It'd be nice to find some clarity and closure on this glitch in culture. Please link me, or if they don't actually exist, write both essays. sea turtles, matt “I’d rather read an essay about why Elliott Smith is an amazing musician than why Hawthorne Heights rulez da sk00lz.”

Now I understand where you were going with this, but I have to admit that I would be just as likely to read said essay on Hawthorne Heights because I really want to know why the fuck they “rulez da sk00lz” as I cannot–CANNOT–fathom why on earth they were ever held in any regard at all. It’d be nice to find some clarity and closure on this glitch in culture. Please link me, or if they don’t actually exist, write both essays.

sea turtles,
matt

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