for posting this

Fascinating. How Morrissey deals with all these topics. I have to figure out why it strikes me as strange to go and actually write a paper about this. Maybe because I would think it more appropriate if Morrissey talked about all this himself?

The University of Limerick's website appears to have missed this upcoming contribution to serious academic study. My paper on 'Morrissey and the Kitchen Sink: Post-war paradigms of Northern cultural backwardness' will have to wait a while longer.

Now there's a abstract I'd heartily welcome writing. Years of material and study would finally be put to proper use.

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Those who can, do.

In media studies combined with Klingon can I write a paper about Morrissey's deliberate misspelling of the word cemetry?

Will Bob Holness be presenting the prizes??

Why couldn't we study Morrissey lyrics in English literature? Oh we did, A Taste Of Honey!

Morrissey and his body gestures, heheheh :))

Or: Morrissey and the mystique of the flying shirt :))

I just hope to God he's laughing at all this.

..from the forums on the same topic:

"Because the discipline of sociology can encompass studying everything that people do, it is a more intensive version of what folk everywhere think from day to day. Morrissey spent a year or two immersed in the subject but not enough that it would qualify him to present a paper at the symposium, as is. Incidentally, the topic of how his reading then entered his song-writing later would prove, I think, a very rewarding focus of examination for someone. In fact one song in particular puts forward some of the most core and succinct questions about society to be found anywhere, viz –
“And if they don't believe us now
Will they ever believe us?
And when you want to Live
How do you start?
Where do you go?
Who do you need to know?”

So what I’m wondering is if the non-professors could somehow be afforded an opportunity to participate more meaningfully this year. Since there is a publication planned, this could include both the scholarly papers, and also a collection of observations, of limited word-count, from other interested parties. This would open up the debate in the spirit of sociology itself, and more than likely prepare the ground for a livelier and more involved discussion section."

It might be easier to circulate the edited publication if collated online? For consideration, Headmaster!

Paulo Coelho, a writer, once said, "If a book is not enough to explain itself, then it is a failed book".

After I became unbearably bored with academia, and their insipid way of treating art as a dissected corpse, this phrase has stuck with me.

There was a yound man from Stretford,

(or has this been done already?)

    Aaah yes, Morrissey and ambiguity...
    I'll definitely be submitting for this
    one.