Linkspam for you!

Bilingual interview with MBS Thursday! Is anything scarier? I was just saying my Spanish was slipping, and now I have to QUICKLY review things and badger my Chicana aunt into talking to me in Spanish so I don't make a complete ass of my self. It's gonna all be North and South American Spanish rather than Spain-Spanish too. Shitfuck.

Have some links while I quietly stew!

The worst fantasy story ever written.

The Drinking Game for the above story. (He doesn't specify that you drink every time you fail and have to pass it off to the next person in the circle, but that's how I've played it.)

The job I'm applying for for the lulz. (thanks, homomoment)

A creepy little song/video about this plush dino toy thing that is ALIIIIIIIIIVE.

Muppets Do N.W.A's 'Fuck The Police'


 

Linkspam for you!

Bilingual interview with MBS Thursday! Is anything scarier? I was just saying my Spanish was slipping, and now I have to QUICKLY review things and badger my Chicana aunt into talking to me in Spanish so I don't make a complete ass of my self. It's gonna all be North and South American Spanish rather than Spain-Spanish too. Shitfuck.

Have some links while I quietly stew!

The worst fantasy story ever written.

The Drinking Game for the above story. (He doesn't specify that you drink every time you fail and have to pass it off to the next person in the circle, but that's how I've played it.)

The job I'm applying for for the lulz. (thanks, homomoment)

A creepy little song/video about this plush dino toy thing that is ALIIIIIIIIIVE.

Muppets Do N.W.A's 'Fuck The Police'


 

Academia?

I dunno that I'd ever do this, but it did raise some questions in my mind re: mah futurez in akademiaz:

What's a third-round application deadline?

How does one present a paper for a conference? Must you have a grad degree/be attached to a specific academic institution to do so, or is a call for papers open to anyone with a paper?

Does one get paid to present a paper? Do you cite it on CVs and the like as you would a publication credit?

What do you DO at an academic conference? Do you read the paper aloud, or field questions, or what? The only ones I've ever been too were Iowa's big Nonfiction conference, which was more writing related than academic, per se.

Is publication attached to presenting at a conference? Do they publish a collection? Do you get offers to publish after reading? I've read papers that cite "first presented at blah conference," so I'd assume it's a foot in the door or something?

And this may sound really sophomoric, but how LONG are they expecting papers to be, as a general rule? I feel like anthologies in history at least have sort of common lengths, but English papers grouped together tend to be more variable in length--what then of media studies papers? Do they want 25 pages, or something short enough to read aloud without descending into madness? And what would /that/ length be?

Academia?

I dunno that I'd ever do this, but it did raise some questions in my mind re: mah futurez in akademiaz:

What's a third-round application deadline?

How does one present a paper for a conference? Must you have a grad degree/be attached to a specific academic institution to do so, or is a call for papers open to anyone with a paper?

Does one get paid to present a paper? Do you cite it on CVs and the like as you would a publication credit?

What do you DO at an academic conference? Do you read the paper aloud, or field questions, or what? The only ones I've ever been too were Iowa's big Nonfiction conference, which was more writing related than academic, per se.

Is publication attached to presenting at a conference? Do they publish a collection? Do you get offers to publish after reading? I've read papers that cite "first presented at blah conference," so I'd assume it's a foot in the door or something?

And this may sound really sophomoric, but how LONG are they expecting papers to be, as a general rule? I feel like anthologies in history at least have sort of common lengths, but English papers grouped together tend to be more variable in length--what then of media studies papers? Do they want 25 pages, or something short enough to read aloud without descending into madness? And what would /that/ length be?