An open letter of recommendation for Fairly Crass

Dude, I know that you will be looking for a job soon, possibly, so I thought I would update your recommendation letter in case I am called to do so.






Let me know where I should send this.

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Propaganda Survey Assignment

Okay, view the following ANWR propaganda:



Next, send comments to this post with the distortions, imagery, distractions, and possible errors. I wish I could upload the opposing side, but it is larger than 1024k.

So, I found a way to host swf files, but not how to embed them in blogger, if that is even possible.

...now I gotta do something with this:


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'Lection Maps

So...Somehow...I don't remember how...I ended up here. Some pretty cool maps of the elections. By pretty cool, I mean different than the "Hoooey! Look at all that red!" maps you see in the media. We're not actually so divided (at least in a geographic sense) as the maps might indicate. So perhaps a United States of Not-The-South isn't in order.





-m

SORRY...

OK...Here is the picture I submitted. Fairly weak effort....



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Sorry Everybody

Maybe this will get some Canadians. Have you seen the Sorry Everybody website? (www.sorryeverybody.com)

There are, like, some thousand photos here, mostly looking like this:


How long before Fairly Crass tells us which page his photo is on?

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(M, per our conversation earlier. Either it is a good night, or blogger just got 30x faster at posting and stuff.)

Canadia

Yeah. I would appreciate clarification on direction capitalization, too, since this will all come into play for my thesis. The rule I've been following (purely of my own invention) is to not capitalize it when it's adjective-fying a placename (northwestern Missouri), but capitalize it when it's nounish (...go West). But I think I'm missing something. What about "west of the Mississippi?"

I guess my rule is based on major form classes.

I'm sure you've all seen Marry An American.com by now. Just a random Canadian reference...

No..if you want Canadian hits, you should mention Tom Higgins' resignation from the Edomonton Eskimos, or you could talk about the 10 most violent, brutal, vicious fights in hockey history.

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O Canada!

According to NedStat, the Canadian (Canadienne) readership of this page is 8/10 of 1%. With such a low overall hit-rate, I think we can substantially increase this by reaching out to our cousins to the north. (I am a geographer who has never figured out when to capitalize compass directions in writing. Steve, a little help?)

The first thing we could do is to make everything bi-lingual, which I believe is statutory with our northern neighbor. Oh, I guess the title of this blog already accomplishes this. Maybe that's enough.

I don't think including META tags about Canadian porn will be that helpful. ...but maybe that is worth a shot as well.

Maybe a comment on the loss of the Expos would bring up our readership. No, that won't work, they wouldn't even attend their games. When I was in graduate school, there were two Canadian Football League teams with the same name (Rough Riders), but the Ottawa team folded. Now only Saskatchewa possesses that team name. Interestingly, Ottawa now has a team called the Renegades.

The winner of the Grey Cup should play the Green Bay Packers (the culturally immanent football team in the States). We would call this the World Bowl, and the CFL teams would definitely have a shot since it would always be the Packers (they're close enough, and that Sacramento team never really worked out - so distance seems to be a factor).

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That Bucharest Documentary still haunts me.

Here ya go.

My brother told me about kids huffing and then trying to deny it to the police, even though their faces were totally covered by paint. I don't think he was working with these kids, I think a police friend of his told him the story. Reminds me of when he asked a gang-banger how long he had been in gangs. He told me his whole forehead was covered with gang words. The guy simply said: "I've never been in a gang."



Email me if you want to know why my family gang is the Hoover Crips. I don't think it is something I should post.

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ASSIGNMENT #4 (OR SOMETHING)

Photoshop (or GIMP or Paint) this:



-m