H-Bird’s Weekly Twitter-Spatter

Music, plagiarism, computers, television.

• Teaching at prep level: my colleague's students are down with Barthes' second-order signification, but don't want to write a bibliography. #
• In hope of the incoming of summer. ♫ http://blip.fm/~gelxg #
• My husband retrieved his old X-box from the family home so that he can now alternate playing the GTA IV extension with replaying GTA II. #
• Am I the only one to think that La Roux's mum being June Ackland from The Bill is Splendid Information? http://bit.ly/4bhw50 #
• I do think that the line "This time I'll be bulletproof" is wonderfully effective at conjuring up a whole history of disappointed hope. #
• The aesthetic doesn't hurt, either: http://bit.ly/3eATpO #
• Furthermore, I am still chewing over recent discussions of Plag1ar1sm stemming from @nzdodo and picked up by Philip Matthews and @gtiso. #
• What role pastiche, for example? The music industry and its patrons dwell so heavily — and satisfyingly — in nostalgia. #
• The fact that creative writing's now a product of the university might lead to an academic default around plagiarism: house rules apply. #
• However, I should probably reserve my brain-shavings for this evening when I shall have thinking time uninterrupted by paid employment. #
• It's not just dudes in leotards; it's strength, power and masculine teamwork in the age of AIDS (via @AnaSamways): http://bit.ly/3EWTP9 #
• A joke-as-tribute: Why are there so many Ds in Edward Woodward's name? Because without them he would be Ewar Woowar. (Best read aloud.) #
• Doggies kvetch all through dinner for me to sit on the couch with them. I sit on the couch; doggies all, save Eddie, go outside. #
• Chris Knox's injuries are the same as those sustained by my grandfather in his first stroke. They cut back the words but not the love, man. #
• Custom set-up FAIL: in which iTunes appears to delete the files at which I point it to play. #
• I'd add the #whitewhine tag to that last tweet if I weren't so annoyed. #
• Today has been a roller-coaster ride, though sadly that is only a metaphor. Short version: always ask if your blood tests require fasting. #
• Slightly longer version: if I'd double-checked this a fortnight ago, today wouldn't have been spent feeling like this: http://bit.ly/1s1nF4 #
• Version from the present: while things are probably fine, I would give a lot not to have had the drama today of wondering if they're not. #
• And now, a little Shapeshifter for your enjoyment. Harvestbro has a permanent gig as their new drummer: http://bit.ly/16HjqF #
• For the last 24-hours I have been widowed by the most recent Robert Jordan novel, similar to when the final Harry Potter came out. #
• There are neighbours outside mowing and trimming and pruning. The dogs do not like people being outside without their permission. #
• Watching Grand Designs makes me worry about one-off earthquakes on site, and get stressed when people used untreated softwood. #nzild #
• Not signing in to #foursquare for the same reason that I don't use #brightkite much: I have half-a-dozen regular locations, tops. #
• Viz., home in Sockburn, work, @knedd's work, the harvestparents, @knedd's family, Bar Beleza. #
• Oh, and Countdown Church Corner (holla @ghetsuhm) makes a seventh. #
• Together with @knedd I am tidying the house after having attacks of "please don't tell anyone how I live" (pace @gtiso) #

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