UW-L English Studies Blog

SPEAK Event Photos

SPEAK happens on the first Wednesday of every month during the regular academic year at the Cellar between 8 and 9:30PM. If you have a short story, poem, music, or comedy act to present feel free to come in and get up in front of the audience! Here are some pictures from the October event.

  

  

New Site For Photos!

The English Club has a new home for photos at WINKFLASH.COM. This site is fast, easy-to-use, free, and has unlimited space. To see photos of past events, click here: http://uwlenglish.winkflash.com/ and click on folder # 1.

Do you have photos of past events? You can log in, too. Username: UWLEnglish Password: lacrosse

You can even add a folder for English Dept. events that are not English Club sponsored. Enjoy. ;) Some Tips...

On the left, click "add photos" on the left. Browse for the pictures you want. Then click "Send to Winkflash." Once the photos are there, click on "new folder" on the left. Name the folder and then choose the logo for it. Your folder is now empty. Select all your photos that you want to be in your new folder. Then click "move photos" on the bottom left of the menu. Select the folder you want to move the photos to. You now have your photos in your folder. To make these available for all to see, click the "share folder" button. When you have gone through the page that comes up, it will take you back into your folder, but now there will be a little yellow thing at the top that says "public shared."

Want a UW-L English t-shirt?

 

Want to order UW-L English shirts? Log onto Designzonline.org here: http://www.tcsp.org/index.php?pr=Design_A_Shirt

You can create the shirt right from the website. Pick your color, placement, sizes, everything! The more shirts you order, the cheaper each shirt will be. For example, you can get 10 shirts for 10 dollars each.

You can find the graphics of the images seen above on the UW-L English Documents and Fliers page under "English Club": http://www.uwlax.edu/english/html/publications.htm (English Club made the shirts, but they are not shirts specific to the club.) Save the pictures to your harddrive and then upload them on Designz's easy-to-use design program, free to use. Click "switch print location" to switch between front and back of the shirt. Choose three-color because the dog image is black, white, and gray.  It should take 7 days to get the shirts printed. They're easy to pick up because they're right here in La Crosse. http://www.tcsp.org/index.php?pr=Directions 

Book Club 4/2

Book Club is reading After Dark by Haruki Murakami this semester. If you've read the book and would like to partake in the discussion, come to English Club on April 2nd at 5:45 in 331 Cartwright. We'll be leaving from there to go to Peaberry's.

If you haven't read it, you can still come along.

If you really don't want to come with us, I hear the Chancellor's rocking the Cellar at 7.

Speak! (The April Fool's Edition)

Speak! is English Club's monthly open mic night.

April 1st
will be the last Speak! of the semester, so don't miss this one!

8-10pm in the Cellar (basement of Cartwright)

Bring a pocket full of your favorite jokes.

The usual poetry, stories, and songs will be fair game as well.

Faculty and students are encouraged to attend.

Literacy and Lyrics Book Drive

Wed., April 29, 2009
10am to 4pm
at the Clocktower

Donate your old books to people who need them.

Bands will rotate in and out throughout the day.

Sponsored by the English Club.

Call for Musicians

Anyone remember Literacy and Lyrics, English Club's book drive? We have bands playing at the clock tower throughout the day. This is a drop-off point for the book drive. Literacy and Lyrics 2009 will be this April.

We're looking for musicians and bands that would be willing to play for free. Spread the word!

The English Club
http://www.uwlax.edu/english/html/englishclub.htm

Submit to The Tattered Scribe

"The Tattered Scribe," a blog written by students for students, is looking for short articles dealing with English majors and general English studies. The articles should be written in a style appropriate for blogs and should be under 1500 words; shorter pieces (lists, tips, brief observations, etc.) are also welcome. We're looking for articles that are less academic than quirky in nature. For example, an article titled "A Postmodern Perspective of Shakespeare's Influence in Academia" would be less preferable than an article titled "Why Shakespeare Rules the School (and why he really sucks)."

 Other examples:

•  The Stupidest Mistakes You'll Make with MLA
•  Why James Joyce is a Sexist Pig
•  How to Avoid Working at McDonald's After Graduate School
•  Seven Tips for Procrastinators (okay, six tips)
•  Compromising Pictures of Me with my Favorite Books
•  How to BS Your Way Through Literary Analysis
•  Indiana Jones' Bookshelf
•  What the #&*! is Rhetoric Anyway?

Feel free to be creative with your topics, but remember that "The Tattered Scribe" can be read and enjoyed by anyone, including professors.

Please submit articles to riedy.calv@students.uwlax.edu by November  15.

Wanted: T-Shirt Ideas

The English Club needs your help!

We are looking for witty T- SHIRT IDEAS from the wittiest people we know: English professors!  The sayings could be author quotes, literature quotes, funny English sayings, etc!  Use your imagination!

Please send your ideas to blazek.kell@students.uwlax.edu by Thursday, October 16 at 5 p.m.  We will be announcing the winner of the contest at the English Social this Friday at 5 p.m. in Myrick Park.  The professor with the winning idea will receive a free t-shirt and a goody basket.

Thank you!

The English Club

Speak! on 10/8

Speak! (pronounced "speak exclamation point") is English Club's open mic night in the Cellar (basement of the Cartwright Center). Faculty and students are invited to come and watch as well as participate. What does participate mean? Read a story or poem! (It can be an original or something you admire from another writer.) Or sing a song! Or play an instrument! Or do a skit! Or tell a joke! Or do an impersonation! Or do a magic trick! Or...or...or balloon animals. There will be three microphones, so feel free to drag a collegue on stage with you.

This event started last year, and we want to keep it off the ground. So join us to keep Speak! alive.

STARTING OCTOBER 8th at 8pm in the CELLAR

After that, it will take place the first Wednesday of every month.

Thank you for supporting the English Club.

--Jaime

ps. Regarding Sharon's message about the English Club social, the theme for readings is "trees and leaves," to be interpreted as you wish, but if there is something unrelated you would like to read, please bring it. I think that's all from me for now. I'll leaf you to it.