Wow! The cup of poetry overfloweth! All you poets out there have so much to say that we have to start yet another thread for all your creative outbursts. I will close out the other thread sometime soon so as to avoid a spam overload. Enjoy!
It seems that more and more classics of literature as well as new works are being turned into movies these days; the measure of success in the modern world of publishing often has to do with the 'movie option.' So, is the book always better than the movie? What are some of your favorite adaptations, and which ones were terrible? Which were good movies but bad books? Also, can a movie version help us get a better, supplementary understanding of a book (like Cliff notes you can watch)?
OK. The poetry thread is about spammed out, and my suggestion is causing Trish headaches, so I'll copy it into the start of a new thread (which can be about other poetry things too, if you so desire). Here's the challenge: I thought there was a weirdly poetical quality to some of the spam, so I asked whether any of you writers could craft your own "spam" that followed the form of the actual junk but took it in (perhaps) more meaningful directions.
Here's my favorite of the actual spams:
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Here are contributions by (respectively) Nic and Sarah. I hope you don't mind my reposting them! Any other takers? This may be an entirely new genre, created here!!
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--"MutualMuses.com" (Nic)
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--"little satan devil babies" (Sarah)
What character in a book/story do you connect with the most (is most like you)? Why?
Harry Potter? Nancy Drew? Dr. Sues "The Cat in The Hat?"? Hamlet? Satan, in Paridise Lost? .....
Well, it's back by popular demand: The "What the Heck Can I Do With an English Degree?" discussion, otherwise known as, "I Graduated, Now What?"
We hosted one in person last year, but we thought it might fare well on the blog. So don't fill out that application at Starbucks just yet, find out what some experts have to say... I'm sure Dr. McGovern always appreciates the opportunity to talk about worm food. Also, feel free to share your career goals here; discuss why you are pursuing an English degree and what you hope to do with it.