Introduction

Are you sure you want to be here? I assure you, this will not be terribly exciting for anyone but me, in all likelihood. I figured the words "annotated bibliography" would send most people screaming. Now's your chance.

I created a research blog for my last major project and found it quite useful for organizing my notes, not only because the blog format makes it easy to keep track of related posts, but because blogging feels like less work. Anything to keep motivated, right? So, I'm trying it again.

As previously stated, most of my entries will be in the format of an informal annotated bibliography or simple citations. I say informal because I don't plan on agonizing over word choice and formatting, and I definitely won't be worrying about the 150-words-or-less rule most of the time. I may be long on opinion and short on summary, or vice versa. Keeping track of thoughts and information is my concern, not standing on academic ceremony. That said, not every entry will be about books or articles or other Legitimate Sources(tm). News articles and personal observations will certainly be included, as well as my explorations of novels, TV shows, and movies. This will most certainly evolve over time, and I fully expect this intro post to be out of date in a few months.

Ultimately, this will all turn back to art in some way. As a grad student in art, I intend to use all this compiled information to create new works and write enthralling papers to present to captive conference audiences. Yo ho, yo ho, the academic life for me.

Nice to meet you.

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