<p>GRL - I was at the fringe two years ago. =0 What did he perform in? Maybe I saw him...(but then again there are like 2000 shows so prolly not lol)</p>
<p>Woohoo! Another TASS 07 --> aspiring TASPlicant 08 here. I'll just second everything GiantRedLobster said, and also encourage current sophomores to apply to TASS, which was absolutely amazing. Do it. Go. Now. (lol) ;D</p>
<p>corey whatever happened to staying away from the 08 thread? eh? haha i'm just kidding. and of course it's dominated by the umich tasp. 32flavors, were you a umich tasser? if so, thanks for the paint for our last minute rock-painting. :) and i'm glad tassers are applying to tasp.</p>
<p>^^ haha yeah, I was a Michigan TASSer. I just started posting here today because Corey told me to. :)</p>
<p>Haha, I said I would post in moderation.</p>
<p>And can any Mich TASPers guess who 32flavors is....</p>
<p>And your rock painting was way cooler than ours, I must say. So on behalf of my TASS we take credit for it as we donated much of the supplies.</p>
<p>Oh and Iris, he was in the performance of "Working" by Saratoga High School.</p>
<p>I bet it's Haley, huh.</p>
<p>yup! =) </p>
<p>and our rock painting was awesome. even nancy thought so. ;)</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that I'm applying...It really depends on what the topics are because there are lots of other things I want to do this summer.</p>
<p>I applied to TASS last year, and got an interview, but I didn't get accepted into the program :? Oh well, I wouldn't have ended up being able to go anyway.</p>
<p>i'm excited to apply this year... the topics sounded awesome.
i mean, a whole month away from my irritating family... for free?
;-)</p>
<p>wait- book list? do we have to read classics? i like a few but generally i find them overblown. talk about being impressed by antiquity- farewell to arms was boring! it was like some emo-fied meg cabot book. the lessons you can glean from the books deemed "classics" are nothing you couldn't get from your average dan brown or whatever...</p>
<p>True story: on the TASS app (which is very similar to TASP's), on the booklist question where it asks what magazines you typically read, I included B**** magazine (without asterisks). The "B****" actually has a colon after it, with the tagline "a feminist response to pop culture". (It's supposed to be a positive reclamation). But, for reasons unknown, I left the tagline off. </p>
<p>So for those currently stressed about classics: please don't be. I had none whatsoever on my list, but I did have unexplained sexual slurs. (I hope whoever read my app knew what the magazine was, but I'll never know quite what they thought of it... ;) )</p>
<p>I am an avid reader of ***** ever since I was enlightened by Haley. Unfortunately in my patriarchal contrived ways, now seeing the B-word (how PC) as a term of endearment, I have been using it incessantly with disregard to its negative connotations. I made a reference to the B-word in class the other day and found myself in a hole of assumed prejudice. I really am a feminist at heart, I am like Frederick Douglass speaking at Seneca Falls, I love womYn. <-- Lol. </p>
<p>In Japanese today we where doing advice columns and there where two things we had to respond to. The first being that of, "My husband will not wear a shirt during the entire summer, he only wears pants" (My response was burn all his pants and buy him lots of jump suits). But the second one was "My wife is annoying, she snores all night and I cant sleep because of it". But how it was phrased was rather condescending referring to women as of the house and using the term master. </p>
<p>Wow, so yeah forget Nietzsche. Read: *<strong><em>, Kitchen Sink, whatever magazine you like; and, i know you all read Harry Potter this summer, put that too.
By no means am I encouraging the defacing of great literary works or the promotion of *</em></strong> magazine (although it is great you really should read it, just don't mind the ads, ma-jellin). Just don't trip over it if you haven't read Aristotle to Xenophon. </p>
<p>Also did anyone who took the PSATs last week have a reading comp passage about space jargon, and it referred to Marxists-- Proletariat <a href="lol%20Haley,%20up%20there%20with%20Gaelic%20M_F_%20this%20summer">i</a>. Damn those Bourgeois*</p>
<p>I apologize for the length and nature of my posts. I really could have written one sentence but instead I had to write a novel, my verbosity is even continuing into this epilogue if you will. Sort of ironic as my style as a writer is very concise, I just talk a lot and I am talking to the computer right now, transcribing my thoughts.</p>
<p>On the notes of books, I am writing this at my local library and I find myself next to the Global Warming section. A selection of titles: Climate Change 1995-- about 100 pages, Climate Change 2005--A good 600 pages, A Republican's Guide to Global Warming-- How this exists I do not know, All About Old Buildings-- I think that one is shelved wrong). </p>
<p>Yeah I am done. XD</p>
<p>^^ LOLerskates. I'm impressed at your prowess in the field of cramming hours worth of inside jokes into 6 paragraphs.</p>
<p>And I don't know what's up with calling yourself a Marxist. Clearly, you're a Black Nationalist. (After that encounter, I realized "lesbian separatist" would have been more effective than "radical feminist," but it still served its purpose. "Do you have arms?")</p>
<p>I took the PSATs on Saturday, too. I had to drive into the big (in context) high school in town, because no way does my high school administer the test. I'm the only kid from my HS to take them. All you bourgeois, elitist, assimilationist (LOL) private school / wealthy suburban public school kids are lucky. (Probably not really. The NMSF cutoff in your state is probably 10 points higher than in mine. I found a really funny, furious op-ed column in the Washington Post about how unfair it is that hundreds of kids who get Natl. Merit scholar in stupid, poor Midwestern states (OK, they used a little more couched language than that, LOL) would never make it in Maryland or New Jersey or whatever. It specifically namechecked my state, and I was like, "yesss, low standards." LOL). <-- I like my parenthesis-within-a-parenthesis. Almost as much as I like air parenthesis. 10 times better than air quotes. XD</p>
<p>Haley thank you for your affirmation of my raconturing abilities in the form of
condensed forum posting.</p>
<p>Also I would like to take this time to apologize regarding my personal
misclassification as a Marxist. As Haley has so conveniently corrected I am in fact a
Black Nationalist (No, I dont wear shoes, and when I raise my hand in class i
use a fist).</p>
<p>Regarding the Pending status of our socialist revolution I bear good news.
Following the recent influx of <strong><em>ed off teenagers stockpiling assorted weaponry
at-least thats the only news covered by that Nancy chick (on fox?), i have
followed suit and recently purchased a 25 pack of 'ninja' stars from Ebay. They are
slated for arrival next Monday! Although unimpressive, We do have arms! Haley
may I suggest instead of resorting to weaponry (a product of the insecure
patriarchy) you use your radical feminist ways to benefit our cause. Just like the
French using the bible to convert the Indians in the 18th century (American
Indians-- Latest PC term), you can use *</em></strong> magazine to win converts.</p>
<p>Haley, I am sorry you benefit from your states lowly standards. So from this
day forward I know to accredit all your success to your geographical location,
not your exceeding intellect. While you benefit from this, I have the racist
National Achievement Scholarship on my side. While I wish not to dive into
affirmative action, I am not a firm believer in all this goobly-gook and the
"Black" National Merit program. That being said I find it humorous people openly
admit they are jealous that I can partake in it. Wow change of subject- feels
like this will quickly reduce into a typical Brianna conversation and we are on
the leeward side of it. (Like a typhoon and Taiwan).</p>
<p>I realize we should perhaps find an alternative vehicle for our conversations,
they are over imposing; way to dry, at-least for the average reader and are
inevitably discouraging others from posting on here as-well.</p>
<p>Also just a general PSA, I dont talk like this in real life. Just for some
reason my internet persona has morphed into this. I think its because I suck at
writing (Haley can at-least to this-- DuBois the arbiter of whats black and his red
stamp) So in attempt to match my vibrancy and exuding character i display in
person, i have started writing like I do. Lol.</p>
<p>This post took about an hour, i am writing on my moms blackberry, idk why. And
i had to start over 3 times.</p>
<p>I should go do homework. Japanese is kicking my butt right now</p>
<p>I like how we're totally monopolizing this thread with talk of socialist revolution and ninja stars. XD We should go back to the Ann Arbor Art Fair next year to track down that guy and converse about progress made in the revolution.</p>
<p>My school library has subscriptions to a bunch different magazines. I think I should go to a school board meeting and protest until they agree to provide public access to B****.</p>
<p>When we got a new football field, they put a statue of our (animal) mascot out front, but then parents complained about its inappropriateness, so the janitorial staff had to cut the statue's naughty parts off.</p>
<p>I think it's really funny that people tell you they're jealous that you can participate in the National Achievement Scholarship. I wonder what Shelby Steele would think. Probably tell another long anecdote about a woman he met in a store once. (Don't you live near him? Or he just used your town in his story?) In any case, those person-who-shall-not-be-named conversations were <em>super</em> fun and productive. lol. But nothing approached the level of gay bashing. Oh, good times.</p>
<p>And your writing is brilliant. My favorite was your beautiful, heartwrenching Lifetime story letter about being called Kunte Kinte. I still lay up at night crying about it.</p>
<p>I found out about this movie today - "The Itty Bitty Titty Committee." The description sounds amazing: "A rock and roll romp about Anna, an insecure, apolitical girl who encounters a radical political art group, falls in love with its leader, Sadie, and transforms from a girl into a womyn."</p>
<p>A "womyn"? Dang, that does sound quite interesting.</p>
<p>I think the two of you are scaring off any TASPers-to-be :P And Corey, what happened to boycotting this thread altogether? I happen to remember some vague statement you had last year about not coming onto this thread at all because you didn't want to meet your potential future TASPers...</p>
<p>Tako, thank you for pointing out the contradiction that is my posting on this thread. However, in true rhetorical analysis I tell you this: Well I am not really meeting anyone because no one is posting ;-). So in essence I am in fact getting the best of 2 worlds. I am getting the pleasure of posting on here while not meeting anyone. Its like non-dairy creamer...
Also please don't use the term boycott in Haley's presence.... It has the word boy in it :-/</p>
<p>Wow, the inherent racist nature of being called Kunta Kinte amazingly does not sound familiar. I have no idea when this happened nor the subsequent letter. Perhaps racial prejudice is so abundant in my life, that being mistaken for a true hero out of the African bush comes at no surprise to me anymore.</p>
<p>Haley, are you sure that movie isn't the documentary you are staring in. Also no one sent in their photo release forms, I don't know if they can use those pictures displaying your amazing painting skills. Really a future leader under 35 if I never saw one. Also my sister's name is Anna, not Ah-Na (phonetically) like the automated customer service persona at Ikea-- She is swedish!</p>
<p>^^ RE: boycotts- If only you knew... <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girlcott%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girlcott</a> </p>
<p>I sent you a PM about that letter... I'm sure you remember it.</p>
<p>LOL, I haven't even heard back about if they need/want the release forms, or when/if the book is happening... perhaps we wasted our whole afternoon going store-to-store for nothing. (And I know I demonstrated leadership skills via paintbrush very well.) </p>
<p>I have a hard time calling people Anna now, because Ah-Na is so drilled into my head. Best of all, I think she (you know who) stopped bothering correcting people about it, and just goes by Anna now. ;D</p>
<p>P.S. tako- In traditional Corey style, he'll probably post on this thread a lot, only to recant (accompanying hand motion) everything he wrote after a while. XD</p>
<p>Well for the sake of disagreeing, I recant, with accompying hand gesture, AND apologize for anything that I may say in the future. </p>
<p>So where are you all from; how did you hear about TASP; if you could make up your own seminar what would it be? I dont know, lol.</p>
<p>First one to answer :)</p>
<p>I'm from New Jersey, heard about TASP on here, and if I could make up my own seminar... it'd definately have something to do with America being a cultural melting pot and the culture clash many people face... or about the economy becoming more and more globalized..</p>