Journalism Class - Wednesday November 16

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

There is a message in bright green scrawled across the screen behind Spider's desk. (Someone needs to take those dry-erase-type markers away from him, really.)

First things first. By November 28 I wish to have the name of the subject for your final project, the date of your appointment for your trip/interview and assurance that you have made an appointment with Ms. Biers.

Secondly, I'd like to see 100 words on who you've chosen (or who you'd like to choose) and why.

Thirdly, please remember not to choose someone who has already been interviewed or featured regularly in a public forum. Again, I want new material if at all possible.

Comments

[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

Jake wanders in around one o'clock and curls up in the couch, scribbling about Callisto and why he wants to interview her. Callisto is pretty has a great back is interesting. She does unexpected things and seems like she has a great sense of humor. Jake sips his coffee absently while he thinks. I think she's from the past. A past. ...someone's past, surely?

Callisto

[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

Callisto is pretty has a great back is interesting. She does unexpected things and seems like she has a great sense of humor. I think she's from the past. A past. ...someone's past, surely?

She appears to take her work very seriously, which I approve of. She’s the Art TA, works for the newspaper and seems to be involved with the Junior Achievers. It looks like she works out a lot. She wears leather and shiny things effortlessly, like she’s always worn that kind of clothing, which is kind of interesting. Um. I want to know why she reacted the way she did when I showed her Guernica.

I’d love to find out who she is and why.

[fh_jackass]

Right. The interview thingy. Logan opens up his cell phone and makes a call.

He opens his notebook and writes.

Kara Thrace, a student here at Fandom High, is from the future. She flies a spaceship and plays games inside pyramids. She and Lee Adama are dating, although they have the same father.

This may be some future-culture thing.

She hangs around with other people from the future. They all eat a lot of toast. Toast and toasters may be an important part of this future culture. Maybe they worship a bread god. The destruction of toasters appears to be significant to these people in some way. Perhaps the Bread God's wife is the Goddess of Kitchen Appliances.

Strange future.

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

Krycek looks not as cheerful as a red felt fez should make a person, making lists in his notebook as he tries to think of a subject for his project.

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

Taking a seat near by, D'anna stifles a laugh and grins. "Nice hat."

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

He snorts and smiles faintly as her. "Thanks. It's the spoils of war. No point in not wearing it if I went to the trouble of winning it." Krycek shrugs.

"So what do you think of the project?" Krycek nods towards the front of the class and the message scrawled across the board. "Looks like you'll be doing a good bit of work."

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

D'anna tilts her head to the side, "War? Were frogs involved?"

"Twenty possible one hour interviews off island, up to forty pics and a line or accompanying each..." She takes a deep breath and rests her head in her hands. "I think it's going to be a lot of work."

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

"Thankfully no, though I wouldn't have been surprised if they had been." He chuckles, though a little tiredly.

"I wonder if there's a way to do your part of the project more easily." Krycek frowns and makes a quick note. "Where, say, you'd be able to get in there, do the pictures, and then leave instead of sitting around for the entirety of the interview."

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

D'anna leans her head on one hand and reaches out with the other to flick at the tassel on his fez. "To the victor goes the spoils," she says absently.

"Ugh," she covers her face with her hands and then drags them down so that her fingertips come to rest at the tops of her cheeks. "I don't know. I don't think so, the second picture has to come from something touched on in the interview. If I'm not there then..." her voice trails off and she shrugs.

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John comes in and makes a phone call (http://www.livejournal.com/users/swerval_zero/2399.html?thread=104543#t104543) to Zero in hopes she'll help out.

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

After placing the call, he jots down 100 words.

At first glance, Skank Zero Hopeless-Savage might just seem like someone with bright hair and a job at the library. Just from her voicemail message alone, I’ve found that she goes by several different nicknames and all of them very rock n’ roll sounding. Perhaps this indicates an affection for music? Possibly.

Miss Hopeless-Savage is, perhaps, most famous for the decoration of the school’s roof. It was an act that I salute her and her cohorts for. It showed initiative and also an appreciation for the arts.

I’d like to find out more about the girl behind the pink hair.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory quickly scrawls the following - everything she knows about Bridge:

Bridge Carson is a student from, unsurprisingly, a culture different from my own. I’m pretty sure he’s from the future. He’s something called a ‘Power Ranger.’ I’m not entirely certain what this means, but he’s the…green ranger.

Anyway, he formerly attended to Power Ranger school, where he and his buddies fought crime and stuff. He enjoys fixing things, his dog RIC, and toast - which A) does not surprise me, around here, and B) I’ve been assured must be clarified as being “fingerwiggle” buttery.

Overall, Bridge Carson is fascinating, and I’d like to know more about him via this project.

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

After giving the matter some thought and talking it over with Bel, Beka decided to see if she could interview Wesley Wyndham-Price. She gave him a quick call (http://www.livejournal.com/users/_wespryce/2454.html?thread=5782#t5782), which he returned and tentatively at least, agreed to the interview.

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

Biting the end of her pen, Beka considered what she knew about Wesley. It wasn't much actually.

Wesley Wyndham-Pryce she wrote. "Well, that's three," she said with an exasperated sigh.

Wesley Wyndham-Pryce is British, intelligent, and bookishly attractive. Despite these charms which should endear him to the high school population, he seems almost unnaturally reticent. This may be due to an early disappearing act and his return late in the school semester when friendships have already been firmly established, but I expect to learn that this is his natural disposition.

Wesley studies Sumerian, particularly some large leatherbound book that includes the word 'repay'. Also, he seems to have an interest in vampires. Or at least he had an interest in Angelus before the news.

Since I know so many of the students, and since Wesley is new again, he seemed an interesting candidate for this project and I hope to get to know him better.

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander's first instinct had been to call Barbossa - after all, they're worked together on a class project, but they don't know each other all that well, and everybody loves the talk like a pirate guy, right? But it occured to him that everybody also knows the talk like a pirate guy, since he's the regular radio DJ. Pretty much the textbook definition of 'featured regularly in a public forum'.

Instead, he's fixed on another option, after mentally scanning his classes for interesting people who aren't so interesting that they scare the hell out of him. Like, say, Spider.

I'm pretty sure Edward Scissorhands has some physical challenges-- ten of them, at least-- to dealing up close and personal with other students. That's got to make getting to know people a challenge too-- if the first thing you see is some guy with knives for fingers coming at you, you might not stick around to find out he just wants to ask you about the Bio homework. Even if his taste in music is a little frightening, though, I don't think he's as scary as he looks. Maybe an interview would help everybody else to figure that out too.

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica, having missed class on Monday, has no idea exactly what the project is, so she can't write her 100 words.

She goes up to the professor. "Excuse me, sir?" she says. "I'm sorry I missed class on Monday. I, um, had something that needed my immediate attention."

[lady-jessica-bg.livejournal.com]

Jessica turned in the following blurb:

I plan on interviewing DEATH (yes, that’s with the capitals). He is a bit odd, but I think that that’s perfectly acceptable, especially considering that, first of all, we are currently at Fandom High, and second of all, one would expect a skeleton named “DEATH” to be odd. Besides, he strikes me as an interesting character, even though I don’t know him all that well, and I think that a trip to his world would certainly be informative. Certainly he fits the other project requirements as well, since he seems to have spent his time here being fairly low profile.