Tuesday is a good thing!

[byslantedlight]

Tuesday is a good thing and this is because - it's all over except the mopping up! And the bank deposits, hopefully... *g* Yeay, marking is done! Enough with the chaos and mark schemes and dreaming of my team and pages and pages of scribbled answers! Wheeee! Onto the next chaos-y type crisis... *g*

Celebratory rambling, I think! So... what's going on in the world...

My flist is full of the I Write Like Meme, which I'm now hugely amused by, because it turns out that it's based on this:

Currently it analyzes vocabulary (use of words), number of words, commas, and semicolons in sentences, number of sentences with quotation marks and dashes (direct speech). (Coding Robots (authors) post).

I was all set to get fretful when it kept telling me that I write like Stephen King (not so much about writing style, cos hey readable, but because surely I should be a millionaire by now too!), so I ran some of my favourite Pros writers through it - Sebastian, Kitty Fisher and HG all write like Stephen King too. In which case - yeay! *g* Well, commawise and dashwise and speech markwise and... how in the world can it analyse number of words?! Presumably they mean number of types of words... And how does it analyse vocabulary? Counting letters? And I want to see the list of 40 authors they've used - who don't I write like?! Anyway - Stephen King! I'd better start clearing up my bank account read, eh? *g*

What else to ramble about? Trouble is, the newspapers make me want to slit my wrists since our shiny new "coalition" (and I use the term lightly) came to power: there is money for school buildings - if you're an academy, privatising the NHS continues but more so, banks get a corporation tax cut, but no help for pensioners and charities over the VAT hike, child benefit and public sector pay is frozen, but alcohol, cigarettes and petrol escape tax increase... Shall I go on? This is why I can't bring myself to visit that Lolitics thing - it's not fucking funny...

Ooh dear, that was a grumpy ramble in the end! See, this is why I shouldn't read the papers any more... Oh, what should I do today - too many things I want to do! Maybe I should... write? *g* I'd quite like to write. In my Stephen King-y style... *vbg* Oh! Or there's the CI5 flats project I was chatting with Jaycat about... *vbg*

Comments

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

Next step is what to do about it, mind... *sighs*

Absolutely. For example, over here the press is full of the twists and turns that Gillard is going through on the 'asylum seeker' question.

The hegemonic press (by which I mean the national and state dailies) informs public opinion and the intelligent, informed analysis rarely gets a run. How do you beat that?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Is the "popular press" ever other than hegemonic? Though there are layers even there - I wish the articles I linked to above would be given a louder shout, but it's not those angles that are picked up by our most popularly-read tabloids, unfortunately, especially for anything like action. Media campaign to organise voting for the latest Strictly-Come-and-be-an-Idiot tv show - massive. Media campaign to save the NHS - negligible... not because people don't support it, but because that sort of thing is always Somebody Else's Problem...