tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post3890269128539925206..comments2024-01-08T14:21:37.465-08:00Comments on Infinite Art Tournament: The Thursday Quiz XXIMichael5000http://www.blogger.com/profile/10148584819327475239noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-55655711530463339432008-01-25T08:44:00.000-08:002008-01-25T08:44:00.000-08:00Oh, no pressure at all for next week, then...Oh, no pressure at all for next week, then...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-753327579280986842008-01-25T06:37:00.000-08:002008-01-25T06:37:00.000-08:00i would so totally nail that one.i would so totally nail that one.dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06769697352301199658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-20848041802892616942008-01-24T21:52:00.000-08:002008-01-24T21:52:00.000-08:00@Jennifer: Well, I wanted to use good poems.Oh, it...<B><BR/>@Jennifer: Well, I wanted to use <I>good</I> poems.<BR/><BR/>Oh, it looks like you forgot to submit your answers.<BR/><BR/>@karma: Very sporting application of the honors system. Well done.<BR/><BR/>@Jennifer: Did I make your blood pressure rise? It's true, I stuck to the end of the book. I wanted to highlight some of my favorite poems, and among the three books on my bedside table are Yeats, Auden, and Cummings. I could do a lot worse.<BR/><BR/>(The fourth book, oddly, is a lavishly illustrated young adult's history of the United Kingdom. I'm not sure what it's doing there, but it has been part of the bedside table stack for at years.)<BR/><BR/>@d: "<I>poetry? really?</I>" Hey, we're all about the well-rounded mind on this blog. Next week will be "Great Moments of Jayhawk Basketball." I promise.<BR/><BR/>Wait. I don't.<BR/><BR/></B>Michael5000https://www.blogger.com/profile/10148584819327475239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-12335652839872606812008-01-24T21:40:00.000-08:002008-01-24T21:40:00.000-08:00So, taking home the TQXXI Gold Star is our defendi...<B><BR/>So, taking home the TQXXI Gold Star is our defending champion, Missy! With 12/12, she becomes the sixth winner of back-to-back Golds, following Karin (IV/V), Blythe (VI/VII), Mrs.5000 (IX/X), FingerstotheBone (XIII/XIV), and Becky (XVII/XVIII). No one has yet made it to three in a row; tune in next week.<BR/><BR/>Coming in strong with 11/12, <A HREF="http://sapientsutler.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">Chance</A> bags the Silver Star, his first and his second Star overall in competition.<BR/><BR/>Also with 11/12, <A HREF="http://www.xanga.com/Boowasborn" REL="nofollow">Boo</A> takes her first Blue Star, her third overall.<BR/><BR/>Well played all around.</B>Michael5000https://www.blogger.com/profile/10148584819327475239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-29598710468420374072008-01-24T21:31:00.000-08:002008-01-24T21:31:00.000-08:00Answers:1. Auden -- Is.2. Cummings -- Is.3. "Dicke...<B><BR/>Answers:<BR/><BR/>1. Auden -- Is.<BR/><BR/>2. Cummings -- Is.<BR/><BR/>3. "Dickenson" -- Isn't. But might as well be.<BR/><BR/>4. Eliot -- Is.<BR/><BR/>5. Ginsburg -- Isn't. As Chance recognized, it is actually a Billy Bragg song, "Waiting for the Great Leap Forward."<BR/><BR/>6. Reed -- Is.<BR/><BR/>7. Shelley -- Is.<BR/><BR/>8. Tennyson -- Is not. That was my own little attempt to make up some mock Tennyson. I am of course delighted that a few of you fell for it.<BR/><BR/>9. Thomas -- Is not. "The Two Seasons" is perhaps my favorite piece in the poetic ouvre of, well, michael5000. It was dismissed as highly derivative of Dylan Thomas when I wrote it, which is arguably being damned with faint praise. I'm not at all saddened that many of you mistook it for the real thing. Oh, and -- Thanks, Kate!<BR/><BR/>10. Whitman -- Isn't. Chance called it again; it's from a poem by Coleridge that is sometimes trotted out to demonstrate that great poets really screw up sometimes, too.<BR/><BR/>11. Wordsworth -- Isn't. "The Swimmer" is a so-so poem by the Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon. If it seems at all familiar, you have probably listened to Edward Elgar's song cycle "Sea Pictures." Which is totally underrated, by the way, if you are into that kind of thing.<BR/><BR/>12. Yeats -- Is.</B>Michael5000https://www.blogger.com/profile/10148584819327475239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-24450383538107137482008-01-24T14:05:00.000-08:002008-01-24T14:05:00.000-08:00I used "She Seems to Think" on the new vid. Here i...I used "She Seems to Think" on the new vid. Here it is http://blip.tv/file/621500<BR/><BR/>I hope it's okay. There hasn't been much to do these days. But that will change. You have some interesting songs! It was hard to choose.Boohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08252526859539718170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-87944897374054568652008-01-24T10:48:00.000-08:002008-01-24T10:48:00.000-08:00Whoops -- I be disqualified. I looked things over ...Whoops -- I be disqualified. I looked things over and got to "incarnadine" and wondered if it was related to some supplement a nutritionist recommended, with a very similar name (turns out I was thinking "L-Carnatine") and immediately googled it. My bad. I do have one of these on 45 RPM vinyl...by Mitch Mitchell(!). The good news is that when the answers arrive tonight or tomorrow I will actually look them over with interest rather than to see how I did.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-78723105626417467252008-01-24T10:33:00.000-08:002008-01-24T10:33:00.000-08:00Oh, I like this one :-)1. is2. is3. nope4. is5. no...Oh, I like this one :-)<BR/><BR/>1. is<BR/>2. is<BR/>3. nope<BR/>4. is<BR/>5. nope<BR/>6. is?<BR/>7. is<BR/>8. nope<BR/>9. nope<BR/>10. nope<BR/>11. nope<BR/>12. isAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-88731050092713119602008-01-24T09:52:00.000-08:002008-01-24T09:52:00.000-08:001. yes2. yes3. no4. yes5. no6. yes7. yes8. no9. ye...1. yes<BR/>2. yes<BR/>3. no<BR/>4. yes<BR/>5. no<BR/>6. yes<BR/>7. yes<BR/>8. no<BR/>9. yes<BR/>10. no<BR/>11. no<BR/>12. yes<BR/><BR/>Many guesses but embarrassing myself is a hobby.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-81780902592399883162008-01-24T09:48:00.000-08:002008-01-24T09:48:00.000-08:00I only know about five poems total... and none of ...I only know about five poems total... and none of them are on this list.<BR/><BR/>1 Yes<BR/>2 yes<BR/>3 yes<BR/>4 no<BR/>5 yes<BR/>6 no<BR/>7 yes<BR/>8 no<BR/>9 no<BR/>10 no<BR/>11 yes<BR/>12 noRebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12835352917180439099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-48123002345726276982008-01-24T09:28:00.000-08:002008-01-24T09:28:00.000-08:00Damn, I should have known "Naming of Parts." I did...Damn, I should have known "Naming of Parts." I did know it, but forgot it owed so much to Auden, and blurred it with Ashbery's The Instruction Manual, which probably owed something to Henry Reed. But who the hell is Henry Reed?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-80743790601603726842008-01-24T09:22:00.000-08:002008-01-24T09:22:00.000-08:001. Yes2. Yes3. No - hah4. Yes5. No6. ?? Yes7. Yes8...1. Yes<BR/>2. Yes<BR/>3. No - hah<BR/>4. Yes<BR/>5. No<BR/>6. ?? Yes<BR/>7. Yes<BR/>8. Yes<BR/>9. No, based on clapboard churches - which I take to be pure New Englandism.<BR/>10. Yes ?? Unsure<BR/>11. No<BR/>12. Yes<BR/><BR/>A lot of wild-ass guesses this this week. Good job M5.McGuffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14300113373059468207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-46616942134613370112008-01-24T09:17:00.000-08:002008-01-24T09:17:00.000-08:001 yes2 yes3 no. It's Emily Dickinson with an "i", ...1 yes<BR/>2 yes<BR/>3 no. It's Emily Dickinson with an "i", and you, like others before you, like to sing her poems to this tune. <BR/>4 yes<BR/>5 no. Methinks this is some hiphop you listen to, maybe the Blues Scholars or something. <BR/>6 no. You've spliced an early John Ashbery poem, if I remember correctly, with Auden's poem about the Spanish Civil War.<BR/>7 yes. I think that's right. Was it Shelley? Is that the right year? I think so.<BR/>8 no. Doesn't sound like Tennyson--irregular and unrhymed. Eliot, I think?<BR/>9 ugh. This sounds like a parody of Dylan Thomas, and I don't know it. I'm saying yes. <BR/>10 no. Not Whitman. Oh, it's Blake, I think. And not a poem about animal husbandry. <BR/>11 Woodsworth? What the hell is a Woodsworth? I don't know the poem, but no. <BR/>12 yes. Ah, the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-11958765128450742452008-01-24T08:30:00.000-08:002008-01-24T08:30:00.000-08:001. yes?2. no?3. I think this is a country song so ...1. yes?<BR/>2. no?<BR/>3. I think this is a country song so no?<BR/>4. no?<BR/>5. no?<BR/>6. yes?<BR/>7. yes?<BR/>8. yes?<BR/>9. yes? if so, I'd like to read the rest of it -- good stuff.<BR/>10. yes?<BR/>11. sure?<BR/>12. no?<BR/><BR/>You sure know how to make a gal feel more street smart than book smart...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-55794751428439876792008-01-24T07:21:00.000-08:002008-01-24T07:21:00.000-08:00Woo hoo!1. Yes.2. Yes.3. Haha! No, and I have a pr...Woo hoo!<BR/><BR/>1. Yes.<BR/>2. Yes.<BR/>3. Haha! No, and I have a pretty funny story about that, too.<BR/>4. Yes<BR/>5. Yes<BR/>6. Yes<BR/>7. Yup--I think.<BR/>8. No?<BR/>9. no<BR/>10. That doesn't look like his style, so I'm gonna say no.<BR/>11. No. (Is this guy a poet? Woodsworth?)<BR/>12. YesRhetorical Twisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10061923690806481203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-60413926820135781932008-01-24T06:15:00.000-08:002008-01-24T06:15:00.000-08:00poetry? really?1 n, 2 y, 3 n, 4 y, 5 y, 6 n, 7 y, ...poetry? really?<BR/><BR/>1 n, 2 y, 3 n, 4 y, 5 y, 6 n, 7 y, 8 y, 9 n, 10 y, 11 y, 12 n<BR/><BR/>guesses alldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06769697352301199658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-21401664475670562152008-01-24T05:14:00.000-08:002008-01-24T05:14:00.000-08:001. yes2. yes3. no, but hoyt axton's version is ver...1. yes<BR/>2. yes<BR/>3. no, but hoyt axton's version is very nice<BR/>4. well, pfft. my blog's name comes from ts eliot's poetry. i even own a CD of ts eliot reading this poem. i'm a poetry geek.<BR/>5. this is quite a coup, michael, making ginsburg say this. aside from the rhyme, it reads a lot like a ginsburg, doesn't it? but no, it's the bard of barking, William Bloke himself, billy bragg. (love his St Swithin's Day and New England.)<BR/>6. yes, one of my favorite war poems, because it's so subtly spooky.<BR/>7. here you have me. it looks good but may be a patented Michael5000 Trap. i'm gonna say yes, because it reads like shelley.<BR/>8. um... yes?<BR/>9. another toughie; i'm gonna guess that dylan thomas didn't write anything with the words "cider stand" in it. he was too welsh.<BR/>10. if i remember my english class from 25 years ago, this is coleridge, not whitman, but man, you're making this hard. and here i thought i was a poetry powerhouse.<BR/>11. who is william WOODSworth? i'm gonna sya no, here.<BR/>12. oh yesChancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226145896576592193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-11885328478506312072008-01-24T02:42:00.000-08:002008-01-24T02:42:00.000-08:00Man, the anthology you got your poems out of must ...Man, the anthology you got your poems out of must only go back to about 1800. Either that, or they weren't writing famous poems before then?Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09075041892999096779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-53949143331861733952008-01-24T00:21:00.000-08:002008-01-24T00:21:00.000-08:00I might be the first to reply (being in the PST at...I might be the first to reply (being in the PST at the moment sure helps!) but I <I>will not</I> be getting all of these correct!<BR/><BR/>1. Oui<BR/>2. Oui<BR/>3. Mais non!<BR/>4. Mais oui!<BR/>5. Oui<BR/>6. Oui<BR/>7. Non<BR/>8. Oui<BR/>9. Oui<BR/>10. Oui<BR/>11. Oui<BR/>12. Oui<BR/><BR/>That's way too many affirmative guesses, but oh well!mhwitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01692644684366966097noreply@blogger.com