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Aelius Rusticus

Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 61, Stanley Elkin - 0 views

  • It’s a rare joke that is funny. Only situations are funny.
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      I asked my cat why he didn't help me with the elaborate vegetable soup I was preparing. When he had no quick answer, I suggested it was because he had no stock in it. My wit, pedestrian in the grand scheme, nonetheless amused me in the moment. Funny situation or funny word-play? or neither?
  • “The point of life was the possibility it always held out for the exceptional.”
  • to do the kinds of things which people don’t really do in real life but which they do do in fiction—to follow their own irrational—but sane—obsessions which, achieved, would satisfy them. Alas, these guys never catch up with their obsessions.
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  • There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think, “Jesus Christ, how many more months do I have left?” or years, I hope. I am totally preoccupied with death. I mean my own death. Barth, for example, has said that he comes from very good stock and expects to live a long time. Bill Gass thinks that one of the reasons he takes so much time writing his novels—it took him ten years to write Omensetter’s Luck—is that he has an infinite amount of time left to him. I don’t believe that I have an infinite amount of time left to me. Probably I would be a healthier man if I did believe it.
  • making a scratch on a stone?
  • it’s not a question of making imaginary leaps or having a third eye. It’s a question of using the two eyes I have—and looking hard and close at things.
  • That kind of observation can be taught. I also try to teach them how to recognize a situation, what legitimately is a situation and what isn’t. Those are the only things that can be taught. I can’t teach a person style. I can’t teach him to write, in terms of language. But I can teach them that things look like other things.
  • Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers, a collection of short stories (1966)
  • junk jewelry’s meteorological condition—its Fall line and Spring.
  • I don’t believe that less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.
  • particular existential writers?
  • the SELF takes precedence.
  • Camus
  • in the better restaurants.
  • Barth is wonderful, but the Barth I really admire is back there in the Golden Age of Barth.
  • Bellow I think is a magnificent writer—probably, with Gass, the best writer in America.
  • I think Gass is the best word-man in America.
  • There’s marvelous language in Pricksongs and Descants but it’s subsidiary to the experiment with structure. I tell you this for your own good, Bob. The reason I like Gass so much is that Gass is not fucking around with structure. He is fucking around with language. That to me is legitimate and acceptable, and the furthest out you can go is the best place to be. That’s what’s so magnificent about Shakespeare. Shakespeare wrote very conventional plays, but the language wasn’t conventional.
  • the great gift of fiction—is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.
  • palimpsest of metaphor right there on the page. One gets a notion of the conceit and one is inspired to work with it as a draftsman might work with some angle that he is interested in getting down correctly.
Kate Pederson

Why We Need Common Core: "I choose C." | All Things Common Core - 2 views

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    Video "funny" about need for common core
onepulledthread

A General Guide For Creating Open Content | FunnyMonkey - 53 views

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    good for educators and anyone wanting to create open content.  Funny Monkey website has many other useful posts.
Steven Szalaj

Can Computers Be Funny? - NYTimes.com - 71 views

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    Teaching computers humor - it helps us learn more about what sets us apart as humans.
Steve Ransom

Principal fires security guards to hire art teachers - and transforms elementary school... - 62 views

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    Funny... when you treat children with dignity and create beauty around them, they tend NOT to act like criminals. Create a school environment that's like a prison, and...
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: 30,000 World War II Pictures, the Inauguration, and Diagrams - 4 views

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    Over 30,000 World War II photographs, plus create diagrams and a funny take on the Inauguration.
Susan Davis

Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Twitter: The Livebinders Edition - 66 views

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    "I get asked a lot about Twitter. From how educators are using it to more basics like what does RT mean or what are those funny little things called hashtags?"
Maria Kilgore

Meat-A-Morphosis: An Introduction to Functions - YouTube - 67 views

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    A funny cartoon that introduces function machines (middle/high school). 
Connie Pilato

TubeChop: Chop YouTube Videos - tubechop.com - 90 views

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    TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it (embed it) on your site or blog.
Lee-Anne Patterson

Add Letters! Custom Image Generators & Sign Generators - 1 views

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    Use Add Letters to generate your own funny pictures based on the text you enter. The generated picture looks real and can be downloaded for your own enjoyment! Send them to a friend, post them on message boards, or make announcements on your blog! Create your own newspaper headline, make your own diploma, or even make a custom restaurant sign!
Darcy Goshorn

App Inventor for Android - 42 views

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    You can build just about any app you can imagine with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like WhackAMole or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend's faces. You can even make use of the phone's sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone. But app building is not limited to simple games. You can also build apps that inform and educate. You can create a quiz app to help you and your classmates study for a test. With Android's text-to-speech capabilities, you can even have the phone ask the questions aloud. To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires NO programming knowledge. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's behavior.
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    WOW! Very Scratch-like UI for programming Android mobile apps!!
Steve Ransom

Daily Kos: Notice to All Banker Types from a Teacher - 97 views

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    Sadly funny.
anonymous

Latest News : Clemson University - 23 views

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    MAPC Students at Clemson University produce, "In Defense of Rhetoric: Not Just for Liars" video. Funny, witty look at how rhetoric permeates our lives.
Martin Burrett

WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements - 8 views

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    This WebElements periodic table page contains Essential information for the element ununhexium
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    A nice and simple periodic table with links to a huge bank of information about each element, including a funny cartoon. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Linda Morosko

SlideFest Do & Don't - 110 views

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    These short videos highlight all of the "What not to do's" in a slide presentation. Funny way to educate folks about good design.
onepulledthread

What's So Funny about Disability? » The Society Pages - 58 views

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    very useful perspective covering critique, useful film summaries and mention of comedians with disabling conditions
Randy Yerrick

Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! | TED Talk | TED.com - 22 views

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    In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning - creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish.
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