Seamus Heaney. Erin über alles. :)
Bathing or showering (not which do you do more, which do you prefer)?
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Seamus Heaney. Erin über alles. :)
Bathing or showering (not which do you do more, which do you prefer)?
Bathing, so peaceful.
I like Heaney too.
The Laocoon or the Winged Nike of Samothrake?
The Laocoon, just because that part of the story is so weird.
"Flipped classrooms" in which the students (allegedly) conduct the class and the teacher merely facilitates/serves them.
Hm, I prefer the Nike. Power and grace, doncha know.
I don't like traditional classrooms, so flipped might be a nice change.
Same question.
No. Teachers need to be mentors.
Beards or clean shaven (for yourself, not others)?
Clean shaven.
And traditional classroom.
Frost or Pound?
Pound, but not for the Cantos, and Frost has some good stuff so it's close.
Being a lion or an eagle?
I've had about one good year in the last 17 years of experiencing ordinary education, when the teacher helped to clarify my thinking while also sharing their understanding in an accessible and humane way. I learned to read of course. But overall I find the mentorship model to be a very disheartening, disturbing thing. I can't say if the flipped method you speak of would be better or worse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
Imagine a flipped chemistry classroom. That might be difficult, but once you've managed to do it, it should be easy to imagine a flipped chemistry teacher.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
Being a lion or an eagle? A dimwit descendant of dinosaurs, actually a dinosaur, or a mammal living in the savanna and hunting antelopes, and lying down? Lion obviously.
Gauguin or Chagall?
Wings, man! Flying!
Gauguin. I think Chagall is kinda sappy, haha.
Short films or long ones?
Long. Books, too.
Blissfully ignorant or knowledgeably unhappy?
Knowledgeably unhappy, at least when the ignorance is of the kind that will eventually damage you.
And long movies definitely, if by short you mean shorter than a feature film.
Would you rather be a forest or a street?
Well, perhaps a deserted road that wound thorough a really spooky forest. You know, if I could.
Simon or Garfunkle :)
The one who wrote the songs, not sure which and I don't care enough to look them up.
Sally Mann or Vivian Maier? Look them up and you will not regret it.
Maier.
Koudelka or Kertesz?
It was a joke, Lykern. North's previous question was taken from one of their songs. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
I haven't read Sally Mann, but I love history enough to appreciate an archaeological find like Maier's photographs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
Ham or turkey at holidays (excluding Thanksgiving)?
WOW they are great. Had not heard of them! Thank you!
Kertesz from a very quick inspection but a hard choice.
Elephants or guinea pigs?
EDIT: Ham. and you haven't READ Sally Mann? Excuse me?
Elephants. Guinea pigs tend to run away during tiger hunts.
Yeah well, I'm reading a 3,000 page book at the moment, and I've got a 4,000 pager in line next. If Sally loves me, she'll wait.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
Hershey's chocolate or Hershey's chocolate with almonds?
Almonds.
Sally Mann is a photographer, I'll have you know! And I'm reading a 4,300 page book right now. Hrrrmmmmph.
Brancusi or Moore?
Dinty Moore was the superior canned stew, in my opinion.
Grant or Lee?
Hugh Grant over Christopher Lee.
E: The other way round, I mixed Hugh Laurie and Hugh Grant . . .
Eugene Atget or Edward Weston.
Well, Hugh Grant's chick flicks were pretty scary.
Eugene, Oregon's got it all over Weston, Massachusetts.
Edison or Bell?
Neither, thanks, I'd rather have someone who invented something. Bell was the less despicable, I suppose.
Robert Burns or John Clare?
True, and Ford was worst of all.
Burrrrrrrns.
Ireland or Scotland?
Ireland.
Yeats or Joyce?
Yeats (although I haven't really read Joyce)
St. Petersburg or Moscow?
Joyce by numerous light years. Second greatest writer in the history of the English language vs. a solid neo-mystical poet. I'd take Beckett over Yeats as well.
Plath or Sexton?
St. Petersburg judging solely from Tolstoy.
Read Ulysses, Pompey. In the next five minutes.
The girls at the coffeeshop or the bar?
Well, Tom Waits assures me that you don't meet nice girls in coffee shops, so I'll take them.
Punky girls or hippy girls?
E: Girls at the bar and no hippies, but more certainly no punks.
Haven't been to Russia.
Sexton over Plath.
Byron or PB Shelley?
Byron, although it's a somewhat sentimental choice. Shelly's usually a better poet.
Tom Jones or Joseph Andrews?
Shelley.
EDIT: Only read Tom Jones but I hope Joseph Amdrews is better!
Cream cheese or lox?
Lox! I love a mildly sugar-salted salmon slice with some sour cream, onion and dill on bread.
Cold-smoked or hot-smoked salmon?
What's the difference? I like hot food so the latter?
Black roses or black angels?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_(cooking)#TypesQuote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
Crumb's Black Angels, of course.
Gaspard de la nuit or Miroirs?
Byron...not even close.Quote:
Originally Posted by North Star
And cold smoked salmon
Eliot or Austen?
Both.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
Disney or R. Crumb?
Well I love golden age Disney and it's had a much greater impact on me than Crumbs output, though I really enjoy his stuff as well.
I men Disney is an entire studio and Crumb is one guy, so I'll pick Crumb over any Disney employee, but Disney as a force for entertainment in the world.
Disney or Ghibli?
Hard to choose between either at its peak. Disney also now includes Pixar, which might give them the edge.
Bushido or Chivalry?
Chivalry.
France or Japan (Considering people, language, culture, literature, anything)