Showing posts with label telephone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label telephone. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Fish Fries Telephone

My article combines a mini-lesson about commas and an abbreviated parody of Lady Gaga and Beyonce's "Telephone" song. I also include a small nudge to visit "Bad-Prose Rants from Lady Wawa”, my abbreviated parody of "Bad Romance".

Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/08/fish-fries-telephone.html and comment there, please.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Technical Communications Means

YouTube playlist for this article,
playlist compilation article


Telephone and mail correspondence—mostly referenced in songs, movies, and a few TV shows are the technical communications means I'm talking about. At the time of those media release, they reflected the prevailing technology for non-f2f interactions. Back then, letters did not reach recipients within seconds, older phone calls person-to-person required manual dialing on a rotary dial (woe if numbers were 8s, 9s, or zeros and your dialing finger slipped), and there was no Caller ID nor answering machine. Cheap mass mailing? Fuggedaboutit!…
  • Songs that Feature Letters
  • Songs that Feature Phones
  • Movies that Feature Phones and Letters
  • TV Shows that Feature Phones
[Read entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/03/technical-communications-means_09.html.]