When I was a prospective student, one of the people who convinced me to go to CCS was the popular blogger Tony Pierce ('91), who responded to an email from me:
i told her that i didnt hate any part of [ccs], but that she should be on the lookout for a few things when going into a writing program.
first she should actually try the things that the professors suggest. i had a teacher who hated talking animals, talking inanimate objects, science fiction, anything that wasnt happening right now, or better yet, two hundred years ago.
his theory, though he never said it, was that sci fi, talking animals, and lets say escalators that speak chinese are really things having a conversation, so why not make it easy on yourself and just make those two things People because, especially when youre just a fucking idiot getting drunk for the first time regularilly, getting two people to talk realistically on the page is tough enough.
He's written other things about CCS too:
In 2005: "because there were no grades, no tests, and no finals, i immediately started working at the campus newspaper...where i ended up writing more articles than anyone. blah blah blah. needless to say, my college experience was a magical one and im still very close with the friends that i made there"
To caption that picture from 2002: "i took her past my old college, the glorious fantastic college of creative studies and she said, god thats small, i said, i thought you said size didnt matter"
While discussing The Sopranos in 2004: "the arguement in creative studies is, if youre going to make your character reveal something in a dream, let them reveal it while awake and the consequences are much more interesting, and the effect will be more powerful."
Also from 2004: "i was invited to return back to the greatest classroom ever and sit at the head of the table and teach...they told me the terrible news that the college paper, the daily nexus wasnt good anymore"
He's currently editor of the LA Times blogs.
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