Monday, March 9, 2009

Is This Your Homework Larry?

I'm torn between believing that the fact that a bit of purposefully botched homework has achieved a status of minor celebrity signals a total and complete breakdown of our society, and then, when I notice the dates on the homework--1999, 2000, 2004--wanting to hire a team of computer excavators to comb through everything I did in high school and college.

But the truth is, real or not, this is bullshit. If you really want to show what an anti-authoritarian, hormone-addled genius you are, then make the world aware of your shitty homework when you turn it in. 70% of the fun of reading stuff like this comes from imagining the confused, angry adolescent hell in which the author lives. To find out that he's now a college graduate and recently fired ad copywriter who's just trying to pull a stunt to land another job ruins the whole thing.





p.s. Matt, the world may finally be ready to accept that stuff we turned into that class about Genesis.

3 comments:

tinkler said...

i wouldn't worry about this signaling the breakdown of society as much as i would worry about why you're indignant enough to blog about this in the middle of the night.

very embarrassing.

Shandana said...

this is my favorite paper of all time:

http://www.rudezone.net/essay/

Brandon said...

Well, now I'm afraid that the super-obnoxious Othello essay I wrote in '99 is going to come back to haunt me.