While my use of the word collage it was unintentional (I did mean college) I like the idea of land grant collages too and can picture using topogrphical maps, capus maps, student loan applications, colored rice paper ect… wish I’d thought of it while I was working on my thesis show.

But, for what it is worth, from now on, I am going to say that I got my education at a land grant “collage.”

From Merriam-Webster: collage: an assembly of diverse fragments.

That is a fantastic description, accidental or intentional, of both the students and the instruction at the University of Illinois.

I really, really like it.

I do have to hold my nose a bit. I’ve considered turning his name into an anagram. Something like, Jack Andrewson?

Glad to see someone still remember’s Woody “3 yards and a cloud of dust” Hayes. I remember Bo Shembechler. Michigan played much more of a spectator friendly ball under Bo. Ohio St. was boring to watch.

nikos: thanks for putting “trivia like spelling and grammar” in their place. lol the manifesto. untie!

Just to keep things in perspective and round out the English lesson here are Jack Kerouac’s List of Essentials for writing.

1. Write on, cant change or go back, involuntary, unrevised, spontaneous, pure

2. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for your own joy

3. Submissive to everything, open, listening

4. Be in love with your life every detail of it

5. Something 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. Work from the pithy middle eye out, from the jewel center of interest, swimming in language sea

17. Accept loss forever

18. Believe in the holy contour of life

19. Write in recollection and amazement of yourself

20. Profound struggle with pencil to sketch the flow that already exists intact in the mind

21. Don’t think of words when you stop but to see the picture better

22. No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge

23. Write for the world to read and see your exact pictures

24. In Praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness

25. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better

26. You’re a genius all the time

27. Writer-Director of Earthly Movies produced in Heaven, different forms of the same holy gold

Peggy Sue: you’re an awesomely good-natured contributor, and one of my favorite comedians. Thanks for the tension-slaying posts here today.

CCM: that Jackson quote is hilarious – and quite possibly the only redeeming thing that murderous bigot ever said!

Now then, let’s all recall our manifesto’s concluding slogan:

“Bad spelers of the world, untie!�

Lastly, I’ve got time now to provide the backstory for my 7:29pm post:

Woody Hayes was Ohio State’s legendary football coach since the fall of Bonaparte in 1815 (well, it seemed like it anyway). Woody was also a practiced provocateur who dubbed those of the University of Michigan “those arrogant asses up in Ann Arbor�.

Which, as one with blue Wolverine blood must admit, is…uh…ahem…essentially accurate.

(god save my soul.)

Or was it a Michigan State football coach?

Doesn’t matter. If the shoe fits…

My grammar and spelling are atrocious. I did not become intellectually curious until after the Navy and consequently, the fundamentals of my writing have suffered. I like to think that content is what matters and I can only hope my sloppy grammar does not distract too much from the sincerity of my voice.

Peggysue, my little remedy has been to keep Microsoft Word on while you have ROS on. Type what you want to say, copy and paste it to the Microsoft Word doc., do spell check, then copy and paste back to ROS. It’s quick and easy.

Looking forward to reading more from you Peggysue.

Sorry for going off on a nut.

A good four+ mile run cooled down my over heated head.

Let’s just say that we who post here know full well that our opinions and arguments are fair game – but we don’t want our posts judged on trivia like spelling and grammar.

This thread concerns academia, but isn’t a part of it (thank goodness!).

So don’t grade us like instructors, please.

Doing so is nuthin’ but cheep shotz.

And as one who hails from Michigan and its renowned (and, in some places, reviled) University, I am uniquely qualified to paraphrase Woody Hayes: Nobody likes arrogant asses.

Over and out.