Intertextuality

My example of intertextuality is from a South Park episode where Cartman is behaving really badly so his mom gets him on Nanny 911 and Super Nanny in hopes that the nannies will help improve Cartman’s behavior.  With no success from the nannies, a doctor recommends that Cartman’s mom call the Dog Whisperer.  So obviously already we have a lot of examples of intertextuality from South Park referencing other TV shows (Nanny 911, Super Nanny, and Dog Whisperer).  I have watched the shows Nanny 911 and the Dog Whisperer so I could easily see the parallels between those shows and how they were portrayed on South Park.  Cesar Millan form the Dog Whisperer treats Cartman as if he were a dog and uses the same techniques that he would use on dogs with behavioral problems.

Here's the link to the clip I used: http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/63702

Blue Highways

Ok, to start, I really dislike Blue Highways so far.  The style of writing is very different than Northern Lights and I much preferred Vida’s writing style to Heat-Moon’s.  Heat-Moon uses a lot of heavy description entangled with big words that, for me, are quite distracting to what the text is actually trying to say.  I found myself rereading a lot because the sentence structure was so complicated sometimes that I forgot what I was reading.  I don’t know… I just don’t like this book so far.  It’s definitely a more difficult read and I haven’t found it particularly interesting yet so it’s hard sometimes.  Even though Northern Lights was also about travel, I feel like Clarissa had a more appealing reason so just get up and leave her home than Heat-Moon.  Heat-Moon just kind of felt like it.  At least that’s the impression that I got.

Second (yes I have decided to address all three of the blog topics), I did not get the chance to travel at all over spring break.  I really wanted to go to Chicago to go shopping.  I tried to give up shopping for Lent, but that didn’t work out so well.  I feel like a terrible Catholic now, but I couldn’t freaking resist the temptation of $25 hoodies from A&F that were originally $100!!  Felt like a steal to me… Oh, I also bought a couple tank tops from Aeropostale (they were 2 for $20).  So I feel like I should give up something that I absolutely LOVE to punish myself…

Lastly, I’ll take this space to vent a little about my life in general.  So since I didn’t go anywhere for spring break, I spent most of my time at the Gahanna Animal Hospital shadowing the greatest vet ever, Dr. Worman.  I hadn’t been in to shadow since early January before school started back, so it had been a while since I’d been around gross animal stuff.  So as soon as Dr. Worman started telling be about this nasty c-section done on a dog with a ruptured uterus containing dead puppies, I got a little nauseous, and before long, was in their bathroom puking up breakfast.  Sorry that was really gross…  I just hope that stuff like that wont hold me back from being a great vet one day…