La Lecturess

La Lecturess
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Contributors La Lecturess Flavia Email: lecturess[AT]gmail[DOT]com Recent Posts Mr. Taxman Typo of the week Manuscript/microfilm question Defeated Ash Wednesday II* Ash Wednesday We are not amused Photoblogging: A Tale of Two Coats Friday poetry blogging: Mark Strand Why yes: I AM originally from the West Coast Things I Read and/or People I Like The New York Times Arts & Letters Daily The Chronicle of Higher Education Commonweal Crooked Timber Inside Higher Ed The Revealer Andrew Sullivan Talking Points Memo Wonkette ABD Anonymous ABD Mom Academic Coach Acephalous Advice at Your Own Risk Anbruch Ancrene Wiseass Another Damned Medievalist Badgerings Bardiac Between an Oxymoron and a Redundancy Blogging the Renaissance Bitch. Ph.D. Cheeky Prof. Clashing Hats Confessions of a Community College Dean Dr. Virago (Quod She) Early Modern Notes Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog G-Fav's Meanderings H.K. in Seoul A Ianqui in Greenwich Village In Favor of Thinking Ink and Incapability It's Probably Me Kermit's Log Kinesthesis Breakthrough Manolo's Shoe Blog Margo, Darling Medieval Woman Michael Berube My So-Called (ABD) Life Negative Capability New Kid on the Hallway On Any Given Day One Bright Star Reignited Oronte Churm Pretty Hard, Dammit Phantom Scribbler Pilgrim/Heretic Playing School, Irreverently Polyopia Professorial Confessions Professor Me Raining Cats & Dogma Reassigned Time Scrivenings Sfragett's City Slaves of Academe Thanks for not Being a Zombie Terminal Degree The Theater Absurd Timna Tired of Ted Tomato Nation Verbosity Defined What Now? Will's Coffee House Writing as Jo(e) Xoom Late Spring To-Do List ~~Read scholarly book #1~~ Read scholarly book #2 ~~Catch up on professional journals~~ ~~Administer evaluations~~ ~~Grade seminar research papers~~ ~~Write two final exams~~ ~~Grade final exams~~ ~~Compute final grades~~ ~~Order books for fall~~ Find apartment in New City ~~Attend INRU Commencement!~~	Friday, March 10, 2006 Best academic game EVER (With apologies to Lucyrain, who's posted some fine ones of her own over the last few days.) George Washington Boyfriend and I were on the phone earlier tonight when for some reason we started trying to cast the movie version of The Wizard of Oz using INRU English department senior faculty. At first we were just trying to identify the four main characters, but by the end we'd come up with Toto, the public Oz and the real Oz, Glenda, the Wicked Witch of the West, and the Munchkin Mayor. (We never quite got to the flying monkeys, but I'm working on them.) Sample conversation: GWB: So [faculty member] is TOTALLY Toto! He's small, he's yappy. LL: Ohmigod, yes! But wait: who IS Toto? I mean, he's yappy, and he gets stuffed into a basket and carried around and shit--but isn't he also kind of the movie's truthteller? You know: he's the one who reveals the real Oz, and he gets all up in the face of the Wicked Witch. . . GWB: So what you're saying is, there's no analogue at INRU. Play amongst yourselves, and let me know how it goes. link \| posted by La Lecturess at 12:46 AM \| 3 Comments: Anonymous commented at 10:40 AM~ LL, that is hilarious! I love your analysis of Toto as the truth-teller (and sad that there's thus no analogue at INRU). Too funny. StyleyGeek commented at 5:51 AM~ I sometimes entertain myself at departmental meetings by imagining I have to construct a fantasy role-playing game (e.g. Dungeons and Dragons) party out of the people present. So I have to decide who is the barbarian, who is the rogue, the mage, the cleric, the paladin, etc. Then you get to come up with little scenarios your party might be exposed to and imagine how they would cope. Mine usually end up pretty quickly getting eaten by something unpleasant while they are all standing around arguing about which spells to cast and who should go first. La Lecturess commented at 9:31 AM~ SG: I love it! I'm going to have to try some version(s) of this game when there are actually people present. Thanks for the suggestion. Want to Post a Comment? back to main page
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