Journal 2i

Because I have serious difficulty conjuring my own conversation naturally and, despite the moving rhetoric filled with riveting emotion, I didn't want to start crying in my dorm to "My Addicted Son," so I decided to read the David Giffels article, "Shirt Worthy." I chose it because the synopsis I got in class fit more into my interest with a slightly humorous side and a topic I find very dear to my heart (I have nearly 20 different band shirts). The subject of his writing is his experience has a punk-rock-tested father finally obtaining the hallowed Ramones tee-shirt from his younger years through fatherhood. Giffels highlights the trial a young man had to go through to earn the honor to wear a band shirt, but his son, growing up in a different time, is not held to the same requirements to wear the shirt has his father. This is very similar to my life because I share my interest in rock just like my parents, and they have amazingly worn out concert shirts from the Stones, Clapton and the Dead, and I just got freshly made shirts that don't harness the same genuine coolness; they aren't battle tested so to speak.  I believe Giffels’ exigence comes from a sort of internal joy that has been fulfilled with the “earning” of the shirt. I don’t know if Giffels writing is limited to any audience, but I believe he wrote it to parents looking to the past, proving you can find childhood pleasure from parenting and restraint. I think this was an entertaining article, but the message was by holding onto a childhood love, it can be even more fulfilling by earning it the right way later in life, in this case as a parent. I feel he used mostly pathos in this writing, making his former worship of the Ramones a relatable and interesting to his audience, but it’s also ethos writing in his obedience not to buy the shirt until he earns it. I think the logos is tougher to find, but it might be the connecting of how the rip is not actually a bad thing, but a good thing. I would like to use a lot of pathos in my writing because it is the most personal and entertaining, but I also think it is the hardest to write well. Overall, I thought it could been a little more looser writing; I guess from the preview I expected less of a writer and more of a dude writing about earning his band shirt. It wasn’t as funny as I would have liked, but a good article I am pleased to have read nonetheless.

This Too Shall Pass- Ok Go

I love this video, period. And the song is real catchy and cheery.

Rube Goldberg Machine - Ok Go - This Too Shall Pass