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Entries from May 2007

Chapbook

7 May, 2007 · 1 Comment

Because I’ve been OCD on the blog today:

Details on the first of 3 planned chapbooks:

Unresolved Issues of Equine Fetishism is a collection of 14 poems.  It will have a cloth cover, with an iron-on transfer.  The cloth colors range from blue and green to pink, red and orange.   Cover image below the fold…. (more…)

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New Link

7 May, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Just added on a link to Liam Kyle Sullivan’s YouTube page.  Just so everyone knows, my paper is up to 8 pages of 15, in spite of all the procrastinating.  Not due until Friday.  Don’t worry.

[h/t to T for the referral]

Categories: carnage · digressions · hip

This is why

7 May, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I don’t get my school work done on time…

and

and

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Blogging Bonanza

7 May, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Achieve transcendence by loading this simultaneously on as many computers in the HUB as you can…

A side note, Kevin found it first.  I stole it.

Categories: HUB · Monday · absurdists · avant garde · carnage · college · digressions · gender identity · to do list

Micro-Credit and the Grameen Bank

7 May, 2007 · 1 Comment

    Loan institutions traditionally utilize collateral as a means of insuring the repayment of a loan.  They also tend to favor large loans, generally taken by wealthy individuals and large businesses and corporations.  Micro-credit operates on much a much smaller scale, and while the purpose of money loaning is profit, many Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) utilize small scale money lending to empower the poor, and alleviate poverty. Chowdhury et al., define micro-credit as, “Essentially the dispersion of small collateral-free loans to groups of jointly liable borrowers in order to foster income generation and poverty reduction through enhancing self-employment” (298).  As Adam Smith said, in The Wealth of Nations, “When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more. The great difficulty is to get that little” (in Subrahmanyam, 1). (more…)

Categories: Monday · carnage · college · drafts · economics · paper

Gender Identity in Second Language Learning

7 May, 2007 · 2 Comments

Language myths often disseminate quickly, and can prove difficult to expel.  For immigrants learning a second language, one such myth seems particularly relevant.  The ease and equality of learning a second language predominates popular discourse, particularly with regard to immigrants entering the country, and the workforce.  One factor often overlooked is the social and cultural context which develops when gender is considered.  Gender identity plays an important role in access to, utilization of and achievement in second language learning.  (more…)

Categories: Monday · Plymouth · carnage · college · drafts · gender identity · linguistics · literature review · paper

No Fuckin’ Way

7 May, 2007 · Leave a Comment

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You heard me right.

Categories: carnage · music · other stuff · urine