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Crowds & Behavior - Why did I do that?
Blogs —
Authority: 162
A recent number of events have caused me to think more about crowds and how they affect us. Two weeks ago I served as a judge in a forensics tournament and one of the competitors talked about crowd control. I also happened to read a news article concerning pilgrimages to Mecca and increasing the safety for the ...1 day ago -
In Reagan’s Debt
Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes —
Authority: 550
Writing in the Rumpus, Rick Moody takes an absurd approach toward answering a question long loved by music geeks: What’s the most awful pop song you can think of? Moody’s nominee is Steve Winwood ’s “Higher Love,”* and his essay ultimately becomes a heartfelt reminiscence of his sister, who died in ...1 week ago -
Sluts! Feminists! Tom Wolfe! Again! Headdesk!
Natalia Antonova —
Authority: 122
Can we please stop resurrecting the writer who has his panties in such a twist over the fact that some women aren’t afraid of the “slut” label anymore that he even wrote an entire bad, bloated novel about it every time this stupid conversation about young women and sex happens ? This is about as old as ...2 weeks ago -
Guest Post: Why Botched Teenspeak Says Volumes
Ypulse —
Authority: 546
Todays Ypulse Guest Post is from Supergirls Speak Out author and former Youth Advisory Board member Liz Funk on the cringe-worthy teenspeak we sometimes see in media. If you work in youth media or marketing and have an idea for a guest post, feel free to email me . Why Botched Teenspeak Says Volumes ...3 weeks ago -
The shame game
Reg on Wry —
Authority: 123
I am writing at 5.15 p.m. on Election Day. The tension and excitement are palpable. The community pulses races. Which one of the three boy mayor candidates will become the boy mayor of Pittsburgh? What about those judicial retention contests? And how can we wait to hear who has been elected to Commonwealth Court? ...3 weeks ago -
Do First Lines Stack Up?
Suspense Novelist —
Authority: 116
As writers, we are taught that opening lines are important. They do more than grab the reader, though. They set the tone. They let the reader know what they have gotten themselves into. They raise a question or two. I wondered if books I read this year or fifteen-plus years ago, and ...4 weeks ago -
Stories Abide
Inside Digital Media —
Authority: 110
Phil Leigh Inexorable expansion of the Internet results in a lockstep growth in anxiety about threatened obsolescence among incumbent media participants. Yet whatever the changes affecting media, storytelling remains the timeless value. Even before humanity learned how to record them, the Greek Myths were passed ...5 weeks ago
