One of things that still makes me laugh looking back is that I got 6 college credits thanks to AP art history class. I studied for the test thinking it would be on, you know, art history. Turns out the test was more than half writing essays on the interpretation of three different modern/abstract art pieces (all three very weird). I wrote what I call “Elegant B.S.” and apparently impressed people who judged the essays…
Therefore I conclude that anyone can be an art critic.
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It’s funny you say this; When I dropped the mindset that was drilled into me in school (the one you so concisely described hitting the proverbial nail on the head) is when I learned to love reading; when it became personal to me. Such a better experience than being “right” on a test or w/e we read in high school for…
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Just watch out for skunks. Our dogs “find them” when we’re over near Boulder Junction.
I always thought that area was about like Maine and most of northern Europe.
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This made me chuckle! Follow the source for the best mash-ups on the net!
100% agree, especially since most of the “renowned” works were written for pure entertainment.
Imagine lit students of the future analyzing the sentence structure of 50 shades of grey 
With that said, some of those authors’ works (Dickens, Tolstoy, Turngev, Dostoyevesky etc) would be useful in history classes
I always assume it will be Stephen King, lol.
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I took it as some kind of advanced elective in secondary school. I think I was part of the 3rd batch of students since it’s introduction. Not sure what the US equivalent is. Dropped out and took up more math in the end.
It was terribly implemented. The teachers were from abroad since no one in their right mind would have pursued art as a degree at that time unless they were really rich, which would also mean they’d have to go abroad to get their degrees, and weren’t even sure what should be taught to students at our level, let alone how to teach and grade us.
There’d be entire classes like in uni where the teacher would sit down beside a projector screen and spend the entirety of the lesson discussing a painting like The Raft of the Medusa with all the playing with perspectives, urgency and intensity of brush strokes from the Romanticist period and the triangular shapes figures formed towards the sky and none of us could figure out what was important to take note of lol. The dude would just ramble on non-stop. Half the time I couldn’t even understand what he was saying because he had a very thick Irish accent.
Then some fucker did an almost exact replica of that Warhol print with multiple Marilyn Monroes but with a different subject and scored the highest points in history for his finals, which included grades of students in the same elective also implemented in Pre-U and I said, “Fuck it.” A maths made more sense.
I just referenced Needful Things in a conversation about last year’s fireworks fracas in my neighborhood.
Also, @T3hPwnisher - Wife just got “me” this game kit! I’m blown away by the whole thing and the kiddo is going nuts.
It has everything in it! And then some! It’s freakin hilarious!
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Hey, I wouldn’t be surprised. King’s a little bit like Steinbeck but he writes waaay too much pointless drivel lol.
I think video games like this are great learning tools for kids in managed doses. The 8 bit Nintendo era was just solving little puzzle boxes with fine motor skill reaction checks built in.
Edit: I strive for accuracy in my PWI statements. Upon further reflection, I now recall certain video games of the 8 bit era to be entirely unfit for children. I’m fine with adults playing this game if they really want to, but I’m demanding we begin compiling a Federal Registry for everyone who downloads this game. These are the kind of people we need to keep track of.
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Until you tried to play duck hunt. No one could do well at that game mostly due to the “gun” controller I think.
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I feel your pain, but it can’t begin to compare to the anguish I felt when Santa didn’t bring me a Nintendo Movie Glove.
It took a lot of strength to continue playing video games after a blow like that.
Hey, don’t you speak ill of the gun controller. I had zero interest in engineering until I discovered how that gun worked. Blew my mind at the time.
I’d probably be a crusty researcher in physics, boring people to death about the types of diamonds used in industry, if it wasn’t for that gun.
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Sweet set-up dude! That one of those “a million games in one console” sorta rigs?
Yeah. Some are pretty repetitive, like same game different theme, but still, there are a ton of games.
I have to find Galaga. I have barely had a chance to play it yet.
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I nearly pissed myself from laughing…
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I used to hear basically the exact same conversations in my grandmas neighborhood growing up, except they usually ended with somebody throwing a brick.
Other greatest hits: "Who does he think he is, driving that big fancy car!?! Damn [ insert ethnicity here ] . Worse than gypsies! ".
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It’s too hot out there to be cool!