FRL! Self-Eval

Darlene McCoy

AMST 199F – The Fish Rap Live!

8 March 2011

FRL! Self Evaluation

So! During this quarter of Fish Rap, I did less things for the paper than I wanted to.  I would have really liked to contribute more, but around the time or our Sex & Gender Special Edition, I got ridiculously busy, and didn’t have enough time to produce a full article of quality work. I knew my time wouldn’t be so constrained after late February, so I decided that I could help contribute more to the paper in the next issue. Sadly, the next issue didn’t happen, so neither did my contributions to it.

The first thing I wrote for Fish Rap this quarter was the article “Puke Like a Pro.” I really enjoyed writing this one – it’s sort of a compilation of the adventures of my friends and I (especially me…) with vomit. It was the only thing that ran this quarter, but I don’t have a copy of it in the paper because I’ve only got one issue with it left and that’s for my Mom!

At production for the first issue we put out this quarter I got to make fun of Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” lyrics, but the work didn’t run. I don’t exactly have  a copy of the work I did for it, save a bunch of scribbles in my notebook, because I did it at production and turned it in there.

For the next issue, I wrote two very short pieces on dog sex toys. I more or less liked how they came out, but honestly, I’m not even sure what I should say about them. The idea of sex toys for dogs is weird. The articles didn’t run.  I also did not attend production at all. I was super busy that weekend, and I thought I was going to be able to contribute more later in the quarter.

For the last issue of the quarter, my friend and I were working on what we called “Pokemon Blow Jobs.” It was more or less a evaluation of the original 150 Pokemon in the field of blow jobs. We had three categories: best, worst, and honorable mention. I’ve got the notes, which I was going to present to someone as a rough draft at our meeting last week, but since we didn’t do that… another weird as hell idea can be laid to rest.

Basically, I’m really proud of my puke article, and wish I could’ve done more this quarter. If I were to give myself a grade, I’d probably give myself a B-. I went to every meeting (I think), but missed a production. I contributed to one issue, but kind of fell shy of really contributing to the second. The poor third issue didn’t exist!