http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/ Anyone can comment. Please visit lyceumproject.com. en-us drew_chastain@hotmail.com 2005-06-01T09:26:23-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/archives/001456.html Hello participants of the Lyceum classes and events. This is the place for you to make helpful comments to us about your experiences so that we can improve our offerings to the community. I had thought of a questionaire format... 1456@http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/ 2005-06-01T09:26:23-06:00 http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/archives/001403.html A question was debated in the discussion after the Spike Lee movie, "Jungle Fever," as to the use of stereotypes in portraying cultural groups and whether Spike was particularly sensitive or aware of women's issues in this and others of... 1403@http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/ 2005-04-15T10:50:12-06:00 http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/archives/001353.html Ok, so I had an experience of Calcinatio I wanted to share with everyone. I recently experienced a moment of clarity(at least as perceived in myself) about a denied issue in a friend that had irritated me and seriously impacted... 1353@http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/ 2005-03-20T13:10:40-06:00 http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/archives/001352.html I am going to reflect a bit on what is left with me after many days after viewing "Betty Blue." I lived through the wild and wonderful 70's and early 80's and this movie took me back to my youth... 1352@http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/ 2005-03-20T12:55:17-06:00 http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/archives/001317.html Last night we viewed "The Night Porter" and today I am thinking about why it so strongly pulled me into it. It "worked" for me because I was stimulated and affected erotically by the main characters. It's elegant portrayal of... 1317@http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/ 2005-03-04T09:24:56-06:00 http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/archives/001311.html We had our first philosophy cafe at the Iron Rail Bookstore in the Marigny and considered the question whether we are truly free. A definition we came up with is that freedom is being or acting without constraint. A followup... 1311@http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/ 2005-02-28T22:39:53-06:00 http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/archives/001307.html Adventures are more than just fun. They seem to have seem deeper meaning and some deeper necessity and that's what we talked about in this philosophy cafe. In an adventure, there seems to be some discovery one is after, a... 1307@http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/ 2005-02-25T09:38:25-06:00 http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/archives/001301.html Our viewing of Godard's "Week End" was painful but like true cinema fans we got through the absurdist film and tried to understand why this flick is so important for film studies. I have thought about how the film does... 1301@http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/ 2005-02-18T19:43:53-06:00 http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/archives/001293.html Hola Lyceum bloggers! I am now in central Argentina, staying with a friend I met is Peru last year while doing shamanic work. He is the director of an addiction program and wants to include the use of the sacred... 1293@http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/ 2005-02-08T14:49:21-06:00 http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/archives/001291.html What's grifting? It seems to be something like con-artistry and breaking the rules to your advantage with the object of purely personal gain. If you're such a crook, you're "in the grift". If you're bad at it, you should "get... 1291@http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/ 2005-02-04T18:49:24-06:00 http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/archives/001277.html For more information on the African-American Authors reading group this is in reference to, click here then click on "Offerings" in the menu bar. The reading group is listed among the offerings. In the Souls of Black Folk, du Bois... 1277@http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/ 2005-01-25T23:32:06-06:00 http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/archives/001272.html We had a lively discussion on the use or misuse of stereotypes to characterize groups of people, especially in racial or ethnic categories at Philo-cafe this Sunday. Although no one advocated the banishment of all use of "types," we did... 1272@http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/ 2005-01-24T17:16:31-06:00 http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/archives/001270.html Though we had a rich and lively discussion of Michael Powell's (1960) film "Peeping Tom, " I wanted to contunue in my ponderings. I want to come back to why Mark only attacked women, when his anguish as a child... 1270@http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/ 2005-01-22T09:21:14-06:00 http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/archives/001250.html Being a philosophy lover, it's no coincidence that I like to ponder coincidences. Not that I think the cosmos is literally talking to me when I encounter the word "onomatopoetic" in three unrelated contexts in one day. Not that I... 1250@http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/ 2005-01-09T20:44:32-06:00 http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/archives/001246.html David asked us to think about whether there was some existentialism in The Misfits. Such a theme came through clearest for me in the question (wondered by both Roslyn & Gay - Monroe & Gable, that is): Is marriage "it"?... 1246@http://lyceum.nolablogs.org/ 2005-01-07T10:40:13-06:00