Reflections on POP 205

The last four months have been interesting, to say the least. Perhaps I’ll recount the many wonderful adventures that occurred during that time, but not now. I discovered some rather humorous asides in the margins of my Survey of Popular Culture notes: which proved distracting while studying. You see, I’m not like the majority of individuals in the world. I actually enjoy learning things. Shocking? I know. Take a moment to gather yourself. I’ll wait… So instead of just taking the barebones, slide by with a C minus, kind of notes, I write down everything (especially if its amusing). So here are some of the seemingly random observations/facts garnered from a particularly provocative course.

· There’s a girl sitting close to the front whose, no joke, holding her hair back with a ribbon tied up in a bow. Really honey? It’s large enough to catch my attention from the middle of this sizeable auditorium. You look like you’re in grade school.

· Apparently 5^th grade social studies books, about our country, begin page one with The Pledge of Allegiance and a picture of George W. Bush… gross.

· T-shirt Logic, taken from a girl two rows in front of me: Keep it simple! Do it well! Do it often! Someone is really excited about mediocrity.

· Ronald Reagan once pointed to a homeless man on the street and said something to the effect of, “Look at that man exercising his right to freedom.” Wow.

· Farmers and factory workers are different.

· Professor Kuwahara share secret of good grades: read assigned material once before class, once after, and again before the test. “Try it. If it doesn’t work, don’t do it again.”

· The Cat in the Hat was found too fun for education by the Iowa educators who commissioned it.

· There is a cute blonde who, out of boredom, seems to be spinning a half full water bottle on its cap. To what end? One can not say for sure.

· I tend to prefer politically correct terms over their counterparts: illegal immigrants versus non-documented aliens, guess which is which.

· I’ve found a new phrase that grates my very being: Cracker-barrel Philosopher.

· The ratio of men to women in this class is a little less than 1:6. One of these girls is keeping busy during the lecture by coloring in a Beauty and the Beast coloring book. I wonder what the ratio of freshmen to upperclassmen is.

· McDonalds is at the top of the fast-food hierarchy. It is followed by Burger King, whose total gross can barely average to 50% of what McDonalds generates. Who knew?

· The city of Detroit may have taken extreme and shady measures to insure the automobiles became the national standard for transportation.

· George Washington was a gold digger? He married the older Martha for the money. Also, Abraham Lincoln kept his pornography collection in the White House. Yeah, you read that right.

· Jim Morrison was a very interesting guy.

· Popular media started the cooptation of Rap music by mentioning, every chance they got, that the Beastie Boys were Jewish (which meant safe and white). Unbelievable.

· Look up the failed television cop drama/musical Cop Rock for a good long laugh.