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My name is Chance, but my friends call me Chance Lewis. I'm a quasi-musician/failed-student/half-assed-market researcher living in Provo by way of Nazareth, Pennsylvania. I love a classic front porch and a good acoustic sing-along; acoustic singalongs held

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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Life: 62 of 1104

"We're All Gonna Die" There was a place, there was a time; there was an ordinary guy, who told me that "we're all gonna die" I see my friends, they come and go; fading in and out like the stations on the radio; I keep my expectations low Im not as morbid as you think, cuz if thats what you think I am, then, this song is goin...
Entertainment > TV News & Commentary Assessing the decline of quality family-oriented television series: 4 of 20

A decline in good old family-oriented television shows isn't so much a deliberate conspiracy of network executives trying to starve the moral fiber of the nation; it's simply a case of supply and demand. New technology, high-paced schedules, and complex floor plans of millennial homes have changed families' TV consumption pa...
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Remembering: 8 of 36

Don't we all remember the original Nintendo Entertainment System, that segueway from our innocent childhoods to the fast-paced high-tech world we now live in. Playing Nintendo provided me with the valuable motor skills and hand-eye coordination that today helps me to leave comments and add friends on myspace at record speeds...
Entertainment > Music Business Taking a look at democratic competition on Internet music sites: 1 of 2

The democratic competition on Internet music sites is defeating the purpose of the Internet as a medium for discovering new music. First of all, these contests are oversaturating the market. People are so bombarded with spambot-powered music profiles, trying to up the band's friend count or daily plays, that listeners just g...
Creative Writing > Songs Songs: Friendship: 17 of 27

"Replacement Friends" This night has been so anti-climactic What a strange series of events The most apathetic and boring imagination couldn't have Predicted this irrelevant sequence What a random order of occurences But a change is good every now and then But on a night that was intended for humiliation Looks like we've bee...
Creative Writing > Songs Songs: Going crazy: 53 of 65

Walking the Rat Race I walked until I couldn't walk no more, and then I started to run I never got my happy ending, so I finally begun To see that things are usually exactly what they seem A bunch of ordinary people, and the crop without the cream You're gonna see, that the marathon won't look the same again And I will see t...
Society & Lifestyle > North American Culture What American cultures lead to wasting water?: 5 of 6

"Water water everywhere, so let's all have a drink," said Homer Simpson, the quintessential American. Americans don't just waste water, we waste everything. The American culture is such that we want everything, and we want it now. Selfishness and impatience lead to the bad habit, even the American habit, of wasting water. I ...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Hometowns: 27 of 31

"Going Somewhere Slow" What do you do when you're back in this small town? I look around for my old friends but they're nowhere to be found What can I sing that hasn't already been sung before? You wanna hear the new song I wrote for you on my keyboard? Where do we go from here, I got a double-sided question: Are you ever go...
Sciences > Social Science (Other) Will written text survive as a communication medium?: 8 of 9

I agree that this question is a bit vague in its wording. However, I can foresee physical, written text declining over the next century to the point of near extinction. The writings of 20th century media scholar, Marshall McLuhan, suggest that the two greatest inventions in the history of civilization have been (1) the phone...
Creative Writing > Songs Songs: Time: 18 of 20

The Future Repeats Itself Time is running out, let's hustle Time's on repeat, we want shuffle Time to revive yesterday's fashion It's about high time for passion Is this the world our parents dreamed of? I wanna write my name into the sand Broadcast my life across the sky I wanna set my history in stone and not a drive The s...