VP Debates; Palin easy on the eyes and ears…NOT.

Early in the month of September when Sarah swooped into this election like a heroine hawk, it changed everything about the election. It became practically an MTV movie in the making, which groundbreaking achievement will it be that has been suppressed by rich white men across the country for so long? A white woman in the whithouse or a black man, one way or another it seemed republicans and democrats almost had this drama planned from the get go.

David Carr, of the New York Times, wrote

She was a huge hit in the room and beyond. Ms. Palin, a woman who clearly understands the power of words, had a way of pronouncing media — “MEE-de-ah” — that made it sound like something legless and slithering.

The power of words? At last Thursday’s Vice Presidential debate, Ms. Palin seemed at times either at a loss for words or spitting out enough soccer mom mumbo jumbo than you could shake a gosh darn stick at. I mean really, heck, what the heck?! This election like so many others is a circus, her the bearded lady, and Biden the missing link. All their rhetoric did was make me really want to vote Ralph Nader.

Videogames and books unite?

According to the New York Times, author PJ Haarasma, writer of science fiction preteen novels, is part of a growing trend in the world of the written word to use internet based games to go along with their published works. As seen here in the article posted yesterday, Haarasma, who sounds like a sci-fi character himself, says books are played out. They need more ways to immerse the reader in their world and that is what they are saying these web based cross breeds are creating.

Now do not get me wrong I enjoy both of these mediums thoroughly. In fact I just dusted off my super nintendo and set that thing back up so as to keep myself entertained and out of trouble. When looking for something else to do I can turn to books as well, but why is it these two need to be put together? Is it because we have run out of interesting stories to tell on paper or is it because everyone nowadays needs a fast paced visual to go with everything. Get a pop-up book then people or better yet just use your imagination already.

Lessons can be learned from both of these methods of communication seperately. Super Mario can teach you how to treat a damsel in distress just as well as any protagonist in any part of a book. Not to mention, the main idea of books are to manifest your own imagery to go with it. Expressing something in writing and gathering or learning information from just those words should be enough of a great game as is. Some things could be better if we would all just let them be.

HELL-o world!

This is where we will be discussing, and or dissing on my beat, the media, and all its marvelously malcontent messages.