comm 300: No television

So, I have found difficulties with posting blogs for this class because I pretty much don't watch that much television. Every so often I will get an urge to watch , but I mostly focus on Food Network. But, really and truly my media love is books.So, today I am going to talk about books.
To my horror, I must admit that I am now a fan of the Twilight series. Let's get one thing clear before we move on: I only like the book, the movie is absolute trash and should never have made it to the screen. So, I have only read the first book, waiting with bated breathe for the second one to arrive so I can continue our adventure. But, I was surprised to note one small difference between the book and the moving. The movie follows the book fairly closely, and in the baseball scene one of the bad vampire's is a black man with great dreds. In the book however, during this same exact scene, this black vampire is actually pretty white. I believe he has some color, but is not black.
So, that raises some questions for me of course. Did they change the character color in the movie to fit Affirmative Action? Or did they decide that this actor was better suited for the part. What exactly motivated this decision?? We could get some interesting answers out of this question couldn't we??

Comm 229: Chapter nine

So, like a dummy the other day I was doing homework for this class and I read chapter nine. Of course, after I've read the chapter I find out that it is actually chapter 10 that we are reading for this week. Exciting...
But, I figured that this opportunity could not be wasted, I might as well get my blogging done. To my horror, I haven't been on here in over a week...there goes all of my points.
But, neway, chapter nine talks about advertisement. It's a really good read, actually very interesting. But,as I'm reading this chapter I am reminded of Michael Crichton's book Next. This is a fairly good book, not as good as his other ones... Jurassic Park and such things,but they all can't be winners can they? But, anyway. This book talks little bit about advertisement too, mostly of where advertisement might be going. One such example from the book is using animals as advertisement billboards. Anything can happen right?
So, I recommend that you read some of his work. Next is fairly good, but I really really love Jurassic Park, Sphere, Timeline... basically all his other ones. Except of course, The Great TRain Robbery total rubbish...