Tuesday, March 04, 2003

Don't Give Peace A Chance NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer was arrested late Monday and charged with trespassing at a public mall in the state of New York after refusing to take off a T-shirt advocating peace that he had just purchased at the mall. He bought the shirt at the mall, but he can't wear the shirt at the mall.  What the hell? Now if he's just walked out of Victoria's Secret and wanted to slip into something sexy there at the food court, that's different.  But this is a t-shirt.  A t-shirt they sold to him.  And he faces a year in prison for this.  What a public relations disaster.  Soon to be financial disaster if that lawyer is any good. 9:08:18 PM     |

anyone lived in a pretty how town My Pre-AP classes tackled one of my favorite poems today:  e.e. cummings' "anyone lived in a pretty how town" (read it).  Predictably, after I read the poem to them as they followed along with their copies, they looked up at me at the end as though I had horns growing out of my head.  But then after going through the poem line-by-line, breaking it down into manageable pieces, most of them came to understand that it's actually a very simple story about anyone, who lives, marries noone, and then dies in his pretty how town. Interestingly enough, George Lucas of Star Wars fame produced a short film version of the poem while in film school.  I couldn't get the film clip provided on that page to work very well, but you might have better luck. For those seeking more information on the poem either because it's needed for my class, or you're just interested/curious, here are a couple of sites worth reading: Modern American Poetry entry for "anyone lived in a pretty how town" Plagiarist.com's entry for the poem A good book to pick up if you're interested in his work, but don't want everything he wrote, is 100 Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings.  Think of it as a sort of greatest hits package. 7:26:16 PM     |

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