You know, Dr. Bear once said that people who read high brow books/watch geek tv will fare better with PLA credit than people who read comic books/watch cartoons. However, I just had to point out that if you're going to go to Union Institute for a PhD in Political Science and want to write up a dissertation on the use of comic books and cartoons in the political socialization of children, then you will need to read some comic books/watch some cartoons ... lots of them for your degree. One of my undergrad professors, the now late Dr. Paul A. O'Lowdenschlager (BA, St. Johns; MA, University of Dallas; PhD, University of Illinois) once suggested that David Banner, the mild-mannered nuclear engineer, who turns into the Incredible Hulk when he gets very angry, represents the good old USA who is the gentle/sleeping giant who is willing to go to war to protect little countries from those evil commies. When I wrote a post very much like this one way back when I was still a newbie (yes, I really was a newbie once), some idiot accused me of dissing Dr. Bear. Not!
16 books to read this spring. http://www.buzzfeed.com/jarrylee/spring-into-reading-new-books#.ghDpZZ2EM I have not spent any real time reading poetry. I suppose I should but I really don't know where I'd start. Any suggestions?
Okay, fine. The Fly by William Blake Little Fly Thy summer's play, My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And drink & sing; Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength & breath; And the want Of thought is death; Then am I A happy fly, If I live, Or if I die.
Maniac Craniac sat on a brainiac, Drinking his protein whey. The cops shouted "HALT!" Charged him with assault, In jail he remains to this day. What was this thread about again?
I'm well known as the guy who walks around around neighborhood parks with his eyes glued to a book. I call it "readercising". Working both the brain and body simultaneously
My dad taught m this poem when I was a mere puppy. Roses are red violets are blue some poems rhyme some don't
Well, I'm trying to give Johan Huizinga's Waning of the Middle Ages a good re-read. Next up: Jim McPherson's This Mighty Scourge.