i could watch that first clip 20 times in a row and lose it everytime larry snaps

Today watched the ep where Lar competed against Rosie O'Donnell for the same girl. Then LEON gives him viagra. Classic Leon.

GLOVES DONT CATCH GLOVES

Round 4

I wasn't planning on adding another sculpture to my collection, but with architecture ruled out, I had some space on my team. Plus, there was some sick VALUE on the board, and an opportunity for my team to capture some representation of the EAST, specifically the most magnificent work of non-architecture Eastern art. In the Gates of Hell, the thinker there is looking down on, what, 170 or so figures? That's neat. The Thinker in my time capsule is going to be looking down on this:

Not tryin' to be a hater but I've thought about that for three rounds and every time I think about it I resolve that ain't nobody wants to stare at thousands of wack toy soldiers that don't even have movable limbs and aren't even in a feasible military formation, unless the formation's goal is to straight up die to literally any volley of any projectile of any kind, fired with any competence whatsoever.

I've seen Terracotta Warriors in person. It's definitely something where the pics don't do it justice and pretty awe inspiring.

I of course respect the pick as a value pick regardless.

yeah pretty sick

also made me admire the chinese go-getter mentality to see the 90yo farmer who found the site getting heartlessly exploited for essentially minimum wage signing merch all day

hoaya

let's CHAT

I have made note of this and will plan to avoid drafting the Terracotta Army in the Military Forces in Human History draft.

Round 5

I'm kinda going to mail this write up in. Anyway, as much as our intellect is integral to our highest aims as humanity, humor is much of what makes us truly human. We see chimps and even birds exhibit signs of intelligence to the point of using tools to acquire food, but we know of no other species that has a sense of humor. Humor is not only integral to our daily lives but also as a tool to philosophize and bring truth to power in a "safe" manner. Ulysses employs humor to a great deal, but I want to emphasize humor for its own sake more heavily and in a more direct manner in my time capsule.

A concrete example of humor that spans cultures and eras is dramatic irony, where the audience knows more about what the characters are saying to each other than they do. Hamlet is an exemplar of this, although it frequently uses dramatic irony to tragic rather than comedic effect, even though it does both. But I want to draft a pinnacle example of dramatic irony used to comedic effect, along with self-referential humor that would be funny even without as much of a cultural context or knowledge of other important artistic works. So, I pick:

I'm going to pick shortly. If you're not taking poetry go ahead.

- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry




How well this line from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass places itself in it's own history. Thematically, of course, it refers to the universality within humanity and nature that Whitman was so concerned about, but historically it predicts how Whitman's work was almost a century ahead of its time in theme and content. Writing Leaves of Grass in the mid 1800's, Whitman explored sexuality, spirituality, individualism and class with an immensely lyrical voice, and American poets failed to come close to matching him until the likes of Creeley, Duncan and Oppen - post WW2.

Leaves of Grass was reworked and republished with occasional new works eight times in Whitman's life, fulfilling Hoya's earlier vision of showing the Angels the process of the creation and incredible labour behind the art itself, while also giving them the complete and beautiful finished product.

Here is a video of a hot chick named Alicia reading from Song of Myself, the focal poem of the collection, while being brought to orgasm with a vibrator. It seems unlikely that this video itself would be a reach in the 5th round, on the off chance we get to include our favourite recital, this pick just gets better and better.




Team so far:

Phoenix
Gates of Hell
Catch 22
The Artist is Present
Leaves of Grass

well that was different

Posters McBeef and PBAL are both banned for trolling and permanently skipped.

lol zeestein

back under your rock bro

lol writeup immediately ruined by it's

Leaves of Grass is hypermegaelite, how could anyone hate on Whitman?

Pretty much the greatest poetry of all time.

preach

goddammit I've read that quote twice now and apparently I'm gonna lose the rest of the afternoon in the rest of the preface now.

it's beautiful, and what's better, part of me only wants to say, "that ****'s hard".

Anyone who's never read the whole book should definitely do so, but if you want to pick out one poem, for me it's definitely Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174738

read through this draft, very nice, can i substitute any of those guys that bailed? i cant believe one item hasnt been taken yet.

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