Podcasting

My feelings on podcasts? Hmm. Well, I'm not sure whether I can say this without bias seeing as my podcasts are certainly not up to par with those of my peers. In my defense, I have no microphone, so I was speaking into headphones plugged into the line-in jack on my laptop. As a result my podcasts were, well, of a particularly shitty quality.

If I were to take this class again I think I would've considered submitting video podcasts instead of audio podcasts. The advantages of video podcasts are endless.
1)I have a web capable camcorder
2)The audience has a better picture of what is going on
3)I can demonstrate the topics of my podcast through moving images
4)It's more interesting (seriously, would you rather watch the news, or listen to it?)
The list goes on.....

Interactive Classroom

I'm sorry to say that I was not a big fan of the "interactive classroom" activity. For me this activity just seemed like another step up the latter of verbal communication extinction. I was appalled by how many people were "talking" via the cyberchat when in the physical world conversations are rare in our class.

While I do feel the internet has it's place in the classroom, I don't feel like that place is communication. Unless of course we're talking communication to a place thousands of miles away. This commercial bellow should illustrate my point a little further.

Today I'd like to talk about internet videos that promote causes. As our book says, although causes may not really gain that much financial support through the internet, they certainly promote knowledge and awareness. Take for example this clip from the documentary Sierra Leone Refugee Allstars, a story about a band by the same name going back to their home country of Sierra Leone after years of war prompted exile.

Changing my topic

Well, I have a problem. No, it's not drinking, although that is debatable. My problem is that I tend to not be able to remember alot of the stuff that goes on after I've had a few, and walking around from bar to bar with a notebook is a tad bit much. I can't even keep track of my phone calls, let alone being writing descriptions of the bar scene down in a drunken haze.

So I decided to change the topic of this blog to video on the web. I figure that's a cool thing, and it's also something I enjoy looking at after a long night of unproductive drinking.

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Stay Drunk for Less: Local Specials Every Day of The Week

Alright-in my opinion there's only two difficult things about being a college student:

1) Going to class, and

2) Having enough money to go out drinking everynight.

The problem that I always run into though (besides skipping class because I'm too hungover) is that, as a college student, money is tight. In addition to this dilema is the "recession", and, as if that wasn't enough, West Chester is like a Mecca for lawyers earning a ton of money defending college students for misdemeanor marijuanna possesion charges.

As a result of the abundance of all the wealthy marijuana-prohibition-funded lawyers in town, bars have discovered they can pretty much charge as much as they want for beer/liquor, and still stay in business. So what's a WCU student to do?

Here's a list of reasonably priced specials for every day of the week...

Sunday-

Baxters. Actually now it's called Ram's Head, but who cares? The point is there's 5$ Budlight pitchers and 35cent Wings.

Monday-

Barnaby's. 2.50$ Stella's. Buy one get one Burgers. 2$ Bud drinks (weiser/light/lime) 10-2

Tuesday-

Jitters. 2$ Miller Lights. 50cent Tacos.

Wednesday-

Spence Cafe. Reggae Night. Live Entertainment for a 5 dollar cover, but if you get in the doors before 10, you're alriht. 2.50$ Red Stripes/random dark asian beer. 3.00$ Captain Morgan Drinks. 1.00$ Miller

Thursday-

Landmark. 2$ You-Call-Its

Friday-

Start the night off at Barnabys and enjoy 2.75$ Blue Moon. Then head over to Doc McGrogan's Oyster Bar and grab yourself a 5.00$ Fishbowl of mystery blue/red black out concoctions or Long Island Icetea .

Saturday-

Same as Friday. Or your broke (but well budgeted) ass could go to a house party or something.

If drinks under 3.00$ are still too expensive for you, I suppose you could always go to Jakes Bar and get yourself a couple 50cent Drafts, or you might want to think about taking a night off...you alcoholic

Introduction

My name is Jeff Adams and I am a mess. Quite a self proclaimed conclusion to ones existence, don't you think? Very flattering. But I'm just being modest. In reality, I'm a beer spilling, noise making, cover-dodging, benevolently offensive binge-drinker, who regularly provides the worst form of entertainment for everyone good and patient enough to consider him or herself my friend. If you've already become appalled at my pride in such an identity, then quit reading. Your stomach can't handle, nor can your brain comprehend, the disturbingly irrational posts that are to follow. You mine as well go back to watching Grey's Anatomy every Thursday night while wishing you had the nerve to immerse yourself in the absurdity that exists beyond the palace walls; think about me when you're ninety years old and can't claim to have ever awaken under your neighbor's hammock at four o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon next to a half empty bottle of Sailor Jerry's rum and a shirtless Italian girl. As for everyone else, take pride in your sense of adventure and lack of direction/morality; climb aboard this belligerent tirade as I captain a sinking ship through the shallow and murky waters of West Chester's least hygienic bars and most sophisticated restaurants, all the while chronicling the menus, specials, characters and sideshows that are to be discovered in the drunken twilight hours of this truly great, historically-rich college town...and for God's sake, never agree with anything I have to say.