Mad Men just another parody

The style of writing in this article is interesting. It holds his opinions and still presents the facts of the show as the way they happened. The author states his opinion with phrases to each story line such as "Cheech and Chong", " Woody Allen", and "Davey and Goliath". I did feel that his writing was lacking on cohesiveness especially towards the end of his article because of the way that his last summary of the episode just lead into the end of the story with no real break of paragraph. Also I know that this is an online article but I did not like the way he ended with just random questions instead of having some sort of conclusion as to what all of the summaries meant as one whole piece.

To read this story for yourself and post your opinions :

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/mad-men-reefer-madness/?emc=eta1

First Time Edit

I was not able to edit one of my other classmates writings today because there was not enough copies to go around. I am relieved in a way though, since I have not edited anyone's writing. I was very nervous about having to do the editing of my paper as well because I have never had anything published and since all of the writings I have written were big papers. I found some old small stories I did for a class while I was at my other college but they were not very good. So I guess I'm still waiting to see what it feels like when it is my real work being edited.

Introductions, Affairs, and Controversies

Hello, I am Michael Spurlock, and I am a senior who just recently switched majors from advertising to online journalism. I am from St. Albans, WV, and I transferred to Marshall last year from another college in Springfield, Missouri. I love hockey, soccer, and hardcore music. I hope to one day work for the BBC because I am very fond of their news reporting for some reason or another.

The Tensions between North and South Korea are finally beginning to ease with the first official meeting between the two states in nearly two years. The North Koreans had come to pay their respect to the former South Korean leader. Kim Dae-jung, who had tried to unite the Korean peninsula. This comes after North Korea has shown some loosening of their threats of nuclear war and intense stand-offs with South Korea. The North Koreans have made diplomatic efforts to ease tensions with allowing families split by the border to be reunited and assuring that cross- border businesses would soon resume. The U.N. believes that the reason there has been relaxing of the position of North Korea is due to the food shortages they are experiencing.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/23/AR2009082300460.html

The Thundering Herd has yet to decide which of it's incoming freshman players are going to be redshirted and with those rumors floating around it is giving hope to some players that they may be able to get some playing time. One of those freshman players is linebacker, Quanthony Fletcher. He is one of the top recruits from this years freshman class. He was rated in the nation's top 10 prospects at his position by multiple recruiting services. He was recruited by Tennessee, Purdue, Colorado State, and UCF before he decided on Marshall. He plans to get some playing time this season after learning things very quickly and receiving some extra help from defensive coordinator Rick Minter.

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/sports/marshall/x1562580290/Freshman-linebacker-looking-for-playing-time-in-first-year