Fight Club Buddies (Dillar a Dollar)

To Students of Linguistics, Fiction  and 19thc
American Writers (Fall 2011)  (& always:
Colleagues Across the  Curriculum: 
Coursing w/o Borders)

Prelude
 
Literally “fore play.”   
Ludic = in game,  play (Ludicrous)
Interlude & Postlude: in between play & after play.
 
The play’s the thing.
 
It’s not what we know anymore that counts
but whether we can put IT in play.
 
Information is ubiquitous.

You can be arguing the year of some album over
your cell phone and checking the right answer even
as you make bets &  sit drinking coffee in the diner.

You’ve maybe seen the ad.  
 
You can be sitting in class  fact-checking your
“professor” even as he professes --or double
checking or back-ground checking your medical
doctor  in the waiting room and sending video
instant messengered pics of both doctors to
fellow students in Santa Cruzi.
 
You maybe want to make an improvised explosive
device?   Double thumb your Blackberry or punch
up your laptop dancer. It’s all at hand. Google
gaga galore..
 
So what’s good to do do now these days in
School Mode?  Pretend we are giving you goods
you  can’t get anywhere outside the classroom,
quiz and test you on stuff you can pack in
your cargo pants and back packs?
 
I’m asking.

With what it costs to take my class you could buy a
 pretty good second hand motorcycle and  do a road
trip.  Carry along your cell-phone i-pad  camera bottle
water appropriate music maybe compact farmer-in-the-
Dell lap top and do research: you think we can do any
thing in the classroom that would match THAT?   
 
I’m just asking. 
Inquiring Mind wants to know.
We can argue. Put IT in play even now in the mist of
endless summer  Punch reply-to-all and don’t we have
"class"  already? 

Quest for knowing. It’s amazing.
 
The MEDIA is the message.  Not the message.
 
Best, Sam  (Seriously: punch a reply if you feel like it.
By the time class begins be could all be fight-club buddies.
A good thing)