someone quoted this poem to me today, so i looked up the whole thing and i thought it was interesting enough to share. it's by ee cummings!

  
in a middle of a room
stands a suicide
sniffing a Paper rose
smiling to a self

"somewhere it is Spring and sometimes
people are in real:imagine
somewhere real flowers,but
I can't imagine real flowers for if I

could,they would somehow
not Be real"
(so he smiles
smiling)"but I will not

everywhere be real to
you in a moment"
The is blond
with small hands

"& everything is easier
than I had guessed everything would
be;even remembering the way who
looked at whom first,anyhow dancing"

(a moon swims out of a cloud
a clock strikes midnight
a finger pulls a trigger
a bird flies into a mirror)

Boo Birds

I've got to stop quoting Bill Simmons, but baseball is on my mind as the season ends and I rather liked this paragraph from a recent column about booing players on your favorite team, in particular the way Red Sox fans treat JD Drew. It's gotten so bad that team captain Jason Varitek has made statements asking fans to stop booing.

Here's Simmons' quote:

But just for the hell of it, let's say Boston fans took Varitek's advice. Let's say they cheered Drew every time he came up, and every time he killed an inning, they reacted like Little League parents and shouted things like "Keep your head up, buddy!" and "Don't worry, we didn't need those runs!" How long could that show of faith last before they turned on him again? A week? Two? Can you ask 35,000 loyal fans who are paying as much as $312 a ticket to sympathize with a $14 million-a-year guy who has killed more rallies than the National Guard? Probably not.

"Killed more rallies than the National Guard" ... that's just so wrong, but so damn clever.

My 24 Hour Theater Challenge Script

I know this is blog is supposed to be about interesting things we read... but over the weekend I participated in the 24 Hour Theater Challenge at Oxy. The title is very true because 24 hours of my life did disappear, but it was definitely worth it. I wrote the first draft of the script in 2 hours and we only changed some situations and added more jokes...

http://xxxkairu.deviantart.com/art/Fiesta-Ball-Fiasco-65530315

It's definitely not the best piece of literature ever written... just remember that I was under a time constraint.

If we could just get rid of these actors and directors ...

If anyone here has ever wanted to try their hand at writing sitcom dialog, you might want to visit the blog of Ken Levine. Ken is a sitcom writer who worked on MASH, Cheers, The Simpsons and many others. He's holding his annual "You write the punchline exercise."

http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2007/09/you-fill-in-punch-line.html

Quality writing-the office

I just realized that Noah's favorite show is the Office, and I promise I am not sucking up, but I love the Office and I do think its really good writing. I really like how after just one episode the writers have established these amazing unique characters that are all hilarious. I wonder how the writers can keep producing such entertaining material with all these characters who are very one demensional, but they always do. It is so painful to watch sometimes, especially in the case of Micheal Sott. My favorite episode is Diversity Day. Sorry if I offend anyone its very politically incorrect.
link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=QPFrfbpyHcA

i wanna hear a poem

So I don't know if anyone else likes slam poetry here, but I really love it. This is a clip from the first episode of Def Poetry Jam on HBO, which is amazing and everyone should watch. Mos Def hosts it, and the people they have on are usually incredibly talented, plus some celeb cameos (Dave Chapelle, Talib Kweli, DMX). I recommend hitting up youtube for some more clips or renting one of the dvds. Uh yeah so...watch and enjoy, I guess.

Dramatic Intersection of Age with Disability Error?

Um... this might be a little late to ask, but has anyone gotten access to the article online we have to read for tomorrow's class? It's requiring a password and stuff, but I don't know what to give it and I'm all confused!!