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I think they gave competitions a long enough try to convince the regulators that currently it is a one offering industry. One of the key questions will be what their long term plans are concerning the installed hardware. I think regulators should demand some assurance that either sets of receivers will not be made obsolete a week after the merger.

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Mar 24, 2008 -> 04:13 PM) I actually hate Shakespeare. I can't stand his books(plays). But his influence to literature is unparalleled. The thing about the writers I call great, they have more than one great work. Shakespeare has several. Homer has two (The Iliad, The Odyssey). Joyce has three (Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses). Nabokov has two (Lolita, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle). There are so many great books that I can't give the title to every author that has written a great book. I would agree that it takes more than just one great book or we'd be looking at people like Margaret Mitchell. But by the same token then, to be a great "writer", the author should distinguish themselves by writing more than novels. But maybe splitting hairs and calling one a writer and the others novelists is probably a bit trivial and a side note not worth exploring. And I would again say that most of these writers wrote a number of great works, and one that was in the category of greatest of the greats. And while great works, I would place many by the authors I mentioned ahead of Ada or Ardor and Dubliners. But as you noted earlier this is personal preference. While I respect Nabokov, he's one of those that I've never warmed up to. Although I have a great deal of respect for his body of work.

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Mar 24, 2008 -> 09:54 AM) Same goes for most of the writers you've listed. One great work followed by minor works. Sinclair's "masterpiece" (which I don't think it is) is The Jungle. It's a good book, if not average. I don't know if I'd put Poe and Frost on that list. Poe was a terrible poet if I can say so without having read much poetry. He was also a short story writer, not a novelist. Frost, I mean, just too hokey to be taken seriously. Twain, gotta respect Huck Finn. Most people probably don't know who Jack London is outside of The Call of the Wild. I've always hated that book but I understand the appeal. I don't know, it just feels like the list you've compiled is the high-school catalogue. Shakespeare wrote plays for a mostly illiterate population, so they are accessible to most High School students. I'd actually say being understood by that level, and enjoyed by adults, takes a great writer. Twain is on many critics list as the best American writer. His short stories are amazing, and he was the first American author of note to actually write using American regional dialects. Yes, high school kids can read Sawyer or Finn and enjoy a tale of kids playing on the river. Adults can read those same books and see the bigger tale of social justice, racial equality, and human frailties. I also tend to include poetry and short stories into the mix. In a kind of cruel paradox, having that "one pinnacle work" sometimes makes the rest of your work seem of lesser caliber. Most of these writers, on their worst day, produced works many times better then their contemporaries best days. But where we really differ is where to draw the line on great. Out of the tens of thousands of American authors, I'm comfortable calling the top 50 or so great. I think it is also appropriate to factor in their influences on others. Can we also tell I come from a program at a traditionally Hispanic University where non traditional works, especially by minorities is celebrated? I'm just not all that fascinated by dead white guys and their works.

QUOTE(Sonik22 @ Mar 23, 2008 -> 11:11 PM) This is awesome, i dont even care how screwed up my bracket is! can't disagree with that. Lots of fun and excitement. Except NC who looks unstopable. Which means they will be stopped in the next round

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QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Mar 23, 2008 -> 10:53 PM) I just don't get the "any puiblicity is good publicity' approach alot of people take today. Do they really think that changed anyone's mind in their direction? They are lucky someone didn't beat them. Alot. No, it didn't chamge anyone's mind. What it did do was get some people to voice their feelings against the war believing that if someone could be so bold to stand up at Holy Name, certainly they can speak out via a letter to the editor, on the phone with a friend, or over coffee with a co-worker.

I love protests. I love people exercising their right to free speech. But do not interfere with someone else's rights. Afterwards make your little scene and get on them news. Middle of Mass, no way.

For the sake of argument, I will not challenge your statement about them carrying the jock. You picked writers who I agree are great. I just believe there is much more room on that list. Basically you nailed a list of conventional, dead white guys in US literature. Even in that vein I would have added Twain Thoreau London James Whitman Poe Frost Cummings Eliot And certainly we have produced some great women writers Wharton Stein Chopin Alcott And minorities Frederick Douglas Rolando Hinojosa-Smith Du Bois William Carlos Williams Langston Hughes I'd also give consideration to Capote and Sinclair.

Kerouac not a great American writer? Would he be in your top 10,000? 1,000? 100? I'm guessing that Ginsberg, Burroughs, and the rest of that group is also not on your list of great American writers?

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Mar 23, 2008 -> 04:09 PM) Read it and know the list. I feel "abstract" guidelines to creative writing are even less helpful than technical guidelines. I'd recommend Stephen King's "On Writing" far before I'd give that list to somebody. Plus there are a lot of existentialst writers that would/will disagree with just about everything on that list. Kafka? Dostoevsky? Camus? I don't think these people were in love with their lives. Or wrote in amazement of themselves. It is an interesting list, though. Of course King as made a lot more money than Kerouac ever did. It all depends on your yardstick.

QUOTE(zenryan @ Mar 23, 2008 -> 03:35 PM) dammit. If we were able to defend the 3 in the first half, we wouldve had a shot at winning this game. Not upset at all. Actually proud that this team didnt lay down and get rolled by Texas. 4 starters back next season, so hopefully we can really build on this as a program. They made my #1 pick in the nation look bad. I'm hoping this was the tough game that makes them sharper for the run to #1

QUOTE(Brian @ Mar 23, 2008 -> 03:33 PM) What are you talking a-boot? well played There is a comedian in the hoose!

Read Kerouac's On the Road Follow his guide, I highlighted a couple things for recent college grads 1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy 2. Submissive to everything, open, listening 3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house 4. Be in love with yr life 5. Something that you feel will find its own form 6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind 7. Blow as deep as you want to blow 8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind 9. The unspeakable visions of the individual 10. No time for poetry but exactly what is 11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest 12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you 13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition 14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time 15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog 16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye 17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself 18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea 19. Accept loss forever 20. Believe in the holy contour of life 21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind 22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better 23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning 24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge 25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it 26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form 27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness 28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better 29. You're a Genius all the time 30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

I'm liking this year's tournament. Some surprises, but most of the 1-2-3 are still alive. I see some great games heading our way. I like that each two brackets are upset city and two are not. Each step from here should have a couple underdogs. It seems like the officiating is coming into play more than most years.

I need Oklahoma. The West bracket just destroyed me. I just checked one I tossed together for a different group, I thought they were both the same, but I made a couple changes that have me looking much better there.

The officials have the official time, there could have been an issue with the stadium scoreboard. Rare, but possible.

I'm leaning towards them not being swayed by gambling, which gives them a it really doesn't matter defense.

I just used the scenario tracker on Yahoo, in this group, if Oklahoma wins, I jump past a bunch of people, if they lose, well, put a fork in me, I'm done.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Mar 22, 2008 -> 10:32 PM) Michigan State picks a heck of a time to get their first win against a noteable opponent away from East Lansing, go figure. Another team that could not follow my very simple script and lose

And I smell like smoke. I hate that smell. And A&M lost, but all my new friends were cxrying in their beer too

drunk and no excellent snacks in then house, I hate f***ing diets.

I think my chances are coming down to Oklahoma. I'm about the only person to pcik 'em.

Looking it over, and saying screw my UCLA pick for this round, GO AGGIES! Plus, I did not have them in the final four, and almost everyone else did.

Why not Their Maggs gamble certainly paid off.

QUOTE(Brian @ Mar 22, 2008 -> 06:53 PM) Why would I pick ND over Wash State? I hate them. Like I really hate Notre Dame. I was thinking next year I'm going to just pick Universities I like. I'd love to be cheering for Texas A&M right now.