It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. – Aristotle
For those in the midst, or looking ahead at finals in my LA classes(9, 10-1, 20-1, 20-2, 30-1, 30-2).
Consider the outcomes we’ve tried to achieve.
Enhancing the artistry of communication has been a strong technical focus. Skills mastered include using online blogging tools, Word Processing, Spreadsheets, even graphical enhancements using Photoshop or audio/video podcasting tools have [...]
This exercise is simple: write a poem about a family member meeting a famous person. All of us have such incidents embedded in family history or folklore: the day Dad shook hands with Ike in France; the time Mom spilled coffee on Elizabeth Taylor in a pizza parlour in San Mateo; the night Aunt Dottie [...]
Use pencil crayons to draw a picture of your mother’s kitchen.
Put the oven in it, and also something green, and something dead.
Write a poem about your mother’s kitchen.
You are not in this poem, but some female relation – aunt, sister, close friend – must walk into the kitchen during the course of the poem.
Completed poems, [...]
The lyrics from K-OS’s, “Heaven Only Knows,” struck a chord with something we had been discussing in class about “mysticism.”
Discuss the following K-OS lyrics based on what we’ve learned when comparing Western and Eastern Mysticism.
Have a careful listen to a variety of current or classic tunes by a variety of recording artists.
Which artists demonstrate our [...]
For a while now, every STJ blogger is faced with a “Random Idea” each time the begin a new post. Well, there should be dozens, hunerds, towsands of such posts in our blogosphere by now.
Trackback your “Random Idea” posts here.
Sophie was introduced to Aristotle. Ideas no longer belong to a realm of their own, but somehow the idea is within the thing. Aristotle could explain this by talking of sculptures and stone.
Review what was said earlier about Plato and art. Discuss Aristotle’s take on the place of ideas and art.
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(30-1)”I know not seems.” In I, ii, 76, Hamlet claims that his grief is real, not just a show. Make a chart of all the occasions in this act when there is a difference between the way a character seems to be and the way he or she really is. Draw up a [...]
Some have noticed that some otherwise regular discussions in class eventually turn to a discussion of, um…, ahh… well …, poop.
The inspiration of such mudtimes no doubt erupt from experience with my three growing boys aged 6, 4, and 2. Several days may pass without reference to “it.” But when the subject rears its ugly [...]
Open a can of Manhattan Project.
Stir in 3 parts Trinity.
Add Einstein’s formula, but just a pinch.
Mix thoroughly with a Bloom.
Bake until done.
Serve with a trackback.
The best story today concerns the STJ email server. Good luck to those with email inboxes that have close to 4000 messages. My sympathy as you begin deleting over over 800 pages of messages, 20 per page. I wouldn’t have believed it had I not seen it with my own eyes.
Every email account I have [...]
