Awesome Day

The weather is amazing today. Its nice and cool outside... I'm only coming back inside to write a blog entry.

I'm not used to this kind of weather, this is a typical mid January day in Miami. Amazing what a difference being inland and only 350 miles away makes. January in Miami is my favorite time of year. Drop below 50 and you've lost me though, I can't deal with that. My blood isn't made for that. Some people like cold - up north type weather though, as Hunter S. Thompson says about those types of people "my blood is too thick for California. I've never been able to properly explain myself here." Okay, okay, I just had to find an excuse for a Thompson quote, crucify me. ANYWAYS...

Kate!!!!- I really, really, REALLY hope you have another outdoors class. That was TOTALLY awesome. It kept my ADD at bay and kept me kind of focused.

And as for what we were talking about fair trade (in reference to the essay on consumerism) you guys should DEFFINITELY go to the farmers market. I go every Wednesday, its freggin awesome. I reccomened you guys try the fresh hummus... and there is a stand that sells awesome fresh bread. And they sometimes have pretty good music there too. Support your local business! Okay, yes I'm an urban hippie... but seriously, check it out.

See everyone next week. Cheers!!

-John

titans vs lights

well i think im gonna compare the covers of remember the titans and friday night lights. i really dont know how to compare them. i mean kate helped alot today but im still pretty confused on how to compare mine. well i better start tomorrow on it so i dont procrastinate and then dont do it. its a start to fight my procrastination problem. wish me luck. well i just wanna say i am extremly glad we have john in out band. He is really good at taking what we all say and expanding it and making it sound alot smarter then how we say it, So i just wannna say thanks john. Well the main reason i wanted to compare the two covers i picked was the fact that i love football and both movies and pretty muvh forgot that we were only comparing the covers but its all good i know i can do it. well i will see you guys on tuesday. good luck on your papers and have a safe weekend. if you need me you know how to reach me.

UUUGGGGGHHHH!!!!!

So... Unfortunately, I kind of have a lot to say….first of all…this was the hardest choice of essay we need to write about. I had no idea what to pick or who to pick. I had the options of ads or the option of picking friends from my social network. So I ended up picking the facebook friends. Not even sure if I might do it but mite change it.

So…I just wanna say about the band who wrote trash about the teacher……. I just want to say WWWWWOOOOOOWWWWW!!!! Never in my life someone would such a thing especially since they know that she is the one that’s going to be grading this… What in the world were they thinking. I didn’t know college students would have balls to write these things..

So…. Our band rocks…..we do our work and even have time for a break….. Good Job everyone.

-Rosa Taveras

crazy week...

I'm having a really hard time with this ad thing I picked one for two different airlines and another for Calvin Klein. I have no idea how I'm going to be able to write so much on this essay. Anyways, when we went over the reading in our book from What Matter's in America that kind of helped. Seeing how she compared the two and showed the differences as well (wish I could write like that). I'm defiantly the type that does the whole point by point and I kind of hate it. But, it's easy and seriously I just want to get a good grade in this class. Kate is probably by FAR!!! the BEST! teacher I have had in Santa Fe... and with my learning problems and all she really helps me out a lot to understand and see from places I would have never even thought. I think she kicks ass! I am completely at loss for words when it comes to that idiot that said what he said about her my God! Didn't someone in his life tell him at least once "if you don't have something nice to say then don't say it at all!" Anyways I'm guessing the boy was on his man period and wasn't able to get his glazed donuts, so he needed someone to blame... way to go on blaming you're teacher what an ass he made of himself. I don't even know if that has anything to do with the class. But, hey I hope at least by the weekend when I start writing my rough draft I'll understand what I'm doing when I'm comparing and contrasting my two adds! :)



-Allie Garcia

you know what else... where >> I << come from...

...You probably fail for insulting the professor.

That was my lame attempt at creativity. Hey, but I caught my ""audience's"" attention... didn't I?
I should get an A for that one.

Anyways... that was also a creative attempt at being narcissistic. I think I succeeded, and my admission that I believe that I did in-fact... succeed only adds to the narcissistic writing style of this blog post. Hey, I'm using what we learned in class today! Get it...

No I'm not trying to make satire about what we learned, I really did learn some things today in class... like how to improve my sentence structure... which, thank you Kate... will torment me and will only add to my obsessive compulsive tendencies. Now, instead of writing my papers 1 hour before they are due, I am going to have to start a week early so I can revise and re-revise... etc.

I almost died today on my way home. I was riding my scooter home and some a**hole in a black Nissan Maxima decided to tail me right as I was making a right on to NW 13 St from 39 ave. He rode right up on my tail and basically sped up to me as I was turning. I fell off, but I won't make this uber dramatic. (I used uber... we talked about how the English language borrows from other languages today) ((except I can't, for the life of me, figure out how to write an umlaut)). I just scraped my knee and burned my arm pretty badly. But its all good. "Why did he mention that" you might ask... because there are thousands of scooters in this city, so don't drive like an asshole... please... 6'0" 220 lb guys on tiny 50cc scooters don't make for a good mix... or rapid turning for that matter. So, share the road.

By the way... isn't it awesome how there is a "gif" file for EVERYTHING.

Bad Advertising

I don't know how relevant this is to whatever we should be writing on this blog - but the class discussion today prompted me to really think about the target audiences in ad campaigns.  I found myself remembering some thoughts I had to myself during one ad campaign... I think it was for the Dodge 1500.  In those ads, they would have a few guys take the truck around some obstacle course which would probably destroy my humble sedan.  They would drive through fire, massive potholes, rocks, desert, and shallow lakes.  The guys in the car would be screaming and really enjoying there time in the car.  Thats great... if your marketing that car to that audience.  But I thought to myself, honestly... who honestly is going to buy a car for that purpose alone?  Granted, there might be a GREAT niche audience that campaign might've been geared towards, but I think the advertisers really missed the point that they are trying to sell VOLUME, and you can't get a high volume of sales by advertising to a tiny audience.  And, I think this was one of the great failure of the American automotive sector - they kept on pushing products in an economic environment where people weren't looking for ultra rugged outdoor sports cars, they wanted something that could get them to and from work without breaking the bank.  I'm a guy, and I do some "guy" gender roll things... ie: watch football... drink gratuitous amounts of beer,  hell, I even change my own oil... but the last thing I want is a truck which is going to contribute to the destruction of our planet and cause me to go bankrupt via my gas-card.  Its 2009, not 1959, and GM, Chrysler, and Ford don't really realize that.  I think if ad campaigns would find a way to focus on guys like me, they would find a wider audience.  

Or maybe I just over thought and overwrote this whole thing....