*blushes* I'm so glad you're enjoying the comm; I'm certainly having a lot of fun with the collective reading.
I think the nature of LJ probably has something to do with the informal tone generally; for me, also, it's an extension of my book log, where I promised myself when I started that I would write about books in as much or as little detail as I wanted (as a way of making it easier to keep up with it).
Actually, I used to write like that when I was in college too, and it generally annoyed the heck out of my professors, though occasionally I'd get one who enjoyed it. That is, I would mostly write in the serious Approved Mode, but there would always be slips into snarkage. Such as the paper on a sonnet by, I think, Spencer that was entirely serious except for being titled "Bummed Out in the Theatre of Doom."
The only time I really, truly, let loose the snark was in my History of Anthropological Theory course, where half the class was, essentially, taught by us to our classmates because the prof assigned us each an anthropolgist and we had to read a ton of their works and find out about their life and give a talk on him. And most of my classmates were overachievers who would talk for 45 minutes, despite us having a 20-minute limit, and the prof WOULD NOT STOP THEM. And my God were they dry! I don't remember a single word of any of them
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This must be remedied immediately. That's got the lyrics and an .au of the song from the sketch. It's short. And sounds vaguely Australian because it's the end of the "Bruces" sketch in which a new faculty member is introduced to the teachers in the Philosophy Department of the University of Woollamaloo, and they're all named Bruce and drink a lot and other assorted Australisn stereotypes done in Monty Python fashion.
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I think the nature of LJ probably has something to do with the informal tone generally; for me, also, it's an extension of my book log, where I promised myself when I started that I would write about books in as much or as little detail as I wanted (as a way of making it easier to keep up with it).
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Actually, I used to write like that when I was in college too, and it generally annoyed the heck out of my professors, though occasionally I'd get one who enjoyed it. That is, I would mostly write in the serious Approved Mode, but there would always be slips into snarkage. Such as the paper on a sonnet by, I think, Spencer that was entirely serious except for being titled "Bummed Out in the Theatre of Doom."
I feel much more appreciated on LJ.
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"Heidegger" to me, alas, brings up "Talking not about Heidegger but wine," from _Rent_. I am sadly deficient in my Monty Python experience.
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