This weekend, I am not going to be able to do any work for the ds106 class, so I made sure to get as much done early in the week as I could. So to start of, I organized my posts into categories, and then made a menu with different pages for the different categories.

For my first assignment, I did the Triple Troll Wire Epigraphs – located here on my blog. I also made myself a new Website Logo – located here on my blog- and then applied it to my blog, making the whole thing much cuter and covered in guinea pigs. I had a lot of fun applying the Rock n’ Roll ‘n GIF assignment to The Wire by gifing the bar scene from S2E1 – found here.

I did three Daily Creates (September 8th, 10th, and 11th). I decided that I was going to force myself to do more writing assignments to force myself further out of my comfort zone, but I’m not sure how well they went because I did them at 5 am both times (I am counting the 10th because it was a poem sort of).

Also I read the Web 2.0 chapter and posted about it here.

Comments from this week – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 [I’m not sure how helpful they are, but they are positive and that’s always nice for feedback on work]

The season 1 finale of The Wire was interesting. I participated in the video discussion of it, because I think it was the episode the I had the most to say about from the first season. I think the first season did a very good job of making sure the conflict was not just black and white. The “bad guys” actually had some really good guys in there that just got caught up in the game, like Wallace who most likely started playing the game to help his family out (think about the scene with him getting other children ready for school). I think they also did a good job of bringing back what I consider to be one of the main points of the show, that the drug “war” won’t end and won’t be won. They did a good job of showing through the montage at the end that the game is still being played even if not all of the same people are involved.

So far I think I like the second season of The Wire more than the first. I’m only two episodes in, obviously, but so far I like the mystery plot better than the wire plot. With this new mystery about the dead girls and who put them there you are legitimately trying to figure out who done it. With the wire plot, we knew who did it, and the mystery was how it was going to be proved or if it could be. As a lover of anything murder-mystery, this season so far is much more to my taste. I do like that the drug dealer characters are still present in the show and I hope they work them back in to the main mystery somehow.