The First Impression: Often the Truest One

Slaughterhouse Five gave me a very good first impression on this first reading. The author talks in a very interesting way, almost neurotic. When I saw that the character was going write a book about World War II the book got me more than it had already had. Of all the important events in history through mankind, the one event I´ve been especially attracted to is WWII it has always been of great interest to me because it pivoted the way the world was heading and made it take the path that it is today; it has been a very grand event in history.
Vonnegut starts talking from his point of view but then says “Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war. I´ve changed all their names.” (p.1 Vonnegut). What has happened in this chapter is that the author tells the reader how he’s living as of now and starts talking to old friends by the phone when he’s drunk. I wonder if this drunkenness and his need to talk to old friends he has never seen since war has to do anything with post-traumatic stress of WW II, maybe it has a symbolism that represents his regrets for those times: the drunkenness represents regret and his calling friends issue may seem that he might share his regret.
As soon as Vonnegut called O’Hare and said “Listen, I’m writing this book about Dresden. I’d like some help remembering stuff. I wonder if I could come down and see you, and we could drink and talk and remember” I figured out this first chapter was going to be the story of the meet between the two of them and the rest of the book, the memoirs of them throughout the war. If my prediction is right I personally think it’s a very interesting way to right a book. These type of books that go back and forth in time are very interesting because they tell the story and then when return to the present they sort of analyze it.

An Ideal Ending

How I think the book would continue if I were to continue reading a hypothetic continuation is very unusual.

A Utopian View

Where differences are not discriminated,
Opinion ought to be shared
And violents are to be eliminated

The totality of the problems repaired.
People live undisturbed and quiet
Because in society there is no despair.

It is many people’s economical target and
In many ways, the population is rich.
Food in served in the table as a banquet

From Dust to Dessert

In the episode “To Serve Man” from The Twilight Zone Mr. Chambers was apparently a specialist on languages or something similar to it. His job was to translate a book that was brought to earth from some type of aliens. Mr. Chambers' boss says: “I suggest that for the time being you continue your process of deciphering until you can tell us precisely, and I mean precisely what that book says.” After hearing this order he acted very arrogantly as if there was no need of checking all the book to see what it said. The only thing that was translated was the title that said “To Serve Man.” Mr. Chambers didn’t care much about the rest of the book because he let himself guide by the title, which he was confident to be with good purposes coming from an alien proposing new ideas to America. The attitude of Mr. Chambers doesn’t serve very well because at the end of the story, suffering the consequences when he’s boarding the alien spaceship, his secretary who did take the time to translate the book that the alien gave them ran off and told him that the book was actually a cook book (I have to admit this part made me laugh). When he was alarmed he was forced into the spaceship and in the spaceship he made a very interesting kind of soliloquay where he noticed that the aliens were going to eat him so he said “We'll sooner or later be on the menu” which is a very profound statement given the context of this episode. Later, the narrator said that we were part of a metamorphosis that coverts us "from dust to dessert", from rulers of the world to condiment in someone’s soup.

The Twilight Zone

Mr.Tangen I couldn't view the episode of The Twilight Zone. One link said that if I wasn´t in the US I couldn´t watch it and the other did not buffer the video I'll try in different computer tomorrow to see if it works. Sorry.

Chatting Robin Banks - Sue Purglew

Robin Banks: How you doing baby?

Sue Purglew: Great! I just went out of gym, boy I'm tired.

Robin Banks: WOW! Your coach really keeps you long hours huh?

Sue Purglew: Yeah, it really sucks but...

Sue Purglew: What'd you do?

Robin Banks: Just went out with some friends to have lunch.

Robin Banks: Hey are you going to the party tomorrow?

Sue Purglew: What party? what are you talking about?

Robin Banks: Roberto's party, didn't you get invited?

Sue Purglew: NO I'm soo pissed.

Robin Banks: Doesn't matter he's like my best friend you can go with me.

Sue Purglew: Aww that's sweet, of course I'll go with you.

Robin Banks: ;) you can always count on me but, you better be ready I don't like to wait.

Sue Purglew: Of course I can't wait for tomorrow night!!

Robin Purglew: See you

Blog Race

The first paragraph of this excerpt really got me thinking. When Sarah Boxer mentioned that she had received the idea of making an anthology of blogs I was thinking “why didn’t this occur to anyone before” but through the reading I made myself aware that it wasn’t possible. As much as we’d like to have a bunch of blogs in one book, it just wouldn’t be the same experience. The fun and you may call it even purpose of going through blogs is to choose your own path because as Sarah said “Bloggers breeze through places, people, texts, and blogs that you might or might not know without providing any helpful identification”. I like to think of the blog network as a giant tree and an important part of being a blogger is to find your way through the branches of the tree checking anything that you want out, including profile information from the author, other post that he/she might have made apart from where the link took you to. So my opinion is that Sarah received the idea of writing an anthology of blogs in a book not because it would be interesting to read blogs in a book but because it simply is a great idea to carry all the experience blogging has to offer in something as handy as a book.

Unexpectedly blogging has become a very important media tool to divulge information about whatever the blogger wants to write about. To my impression from what Sarah Boxer has said, bloggers are willing to post anything if it guarantees them that they will have a high number of people reading their posts. Like it says in the last paragraph of the excerpt “One of the surest ways to hoist your blog to the top of the charts is to bring down a big-time politician or journalist.” Being it false or true bloggers will always write something that makes their blog a permanent transit of readers and fellow bloggers. “In 2004 many right-wing blogs helped the Swift Boat Veterans sink John Kerry's bid for the presidency” this proves that blogs have been a fast emerging way of communication that has the capacity to bring down a strong presidential career. Another way of keeping reading traffic in your blog is not only by yourself, but if you post really interesting things other bloggers will post links on their blog that lead to your blog and that a way to measure how popular your blog is. If your blog is really popular you’ll become a “blogebrity”.