February 2012
1 post
January 2012
2 posts
MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY' →
murkavenue:
CLUE 1: “went to short dogs house, they was watching Yo MTV RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988 CLUE 2: Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on: Feb 23 1993 CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the Super Sonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…
December 2011
3 posts
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Ah Yelp...
I love yelp reviews are completely unrelated to the actual quality of the food, and only tangentially related to the service or establishment itself.
“…as I was sitting down about to enjoy my Blue Moon and slice of Pepperoni pizza the bartender bust out a SHAKE WEIGHT!!! Who does that? I’m sorry but this isn’t the gym, where is the manager and why are they letting their...
November 2011
9 posts
Too bad Occupy Wall Street wasn't organized by the...
partypropagandaprofessional:
The police might actually respect their first amendment rights.
October 2011
5 posts
Related but unrelated...
Although I am financially sound, due in large part to having a stable partner who is also financially sound, my family is in shambles due to the economic collapse. In the last few months, two of my brothers were diagnosed with cancer. One of them has a good job, but is still looking at thousands of dollars in ‘co-pay’ for his treatment. He was already suffering under the crippling debt...
Mistakes were made. (99% and all.)
I made the mistake of reading the comments on a local news station article re: Occupy Wall Street. I should know better than to do that, but here was my response to someone saying “These people don’t know what they want.” “That is garbage. They are there because there are millions of people just like them, and there are a million threads that make up the unifying theme of...
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Future rocket scientist to me on Friday in first period: “Man, they are always saying like half the population has herpes on their mouth, but look around; you never see anyone with herpes on their mouth.”
Me: “Umm, sure you do. Cold sores are herpes.”
FRS: “Holy fuck! I’ve got herpes.”
September 2011
6 posts
My speech to the Academy...
Oh wow! I don’t know what to say. I never thought that someday I would finish grading in such record time. First, I’d like to thank God. I know you probably had nothing to do with this, except that every time one of my students mentioned you in his or her persuasive essay I could instantly stop reading the paragraph, because I told them repeatedly to leave religion out of the argument....
Things I Wish I Could Tell Some Students...
“You are a senior, with 90 credits. Just shut up and go back to sleep.”
“If you are so convinced that there are so many people making thousands of dollars a week without having finished high school, do us all a favor and drop out.”
“I am amazed you are capable of breathing on your own, much less dressing yourself in the morning. Thank you for not causing a traffic...
The House on Webber.
Should I start this by saying ‘I’m not a believer,’ even though that is antithetical to this board? The story I have is only tenuously my own, because I don’t remember most of it, and it is more pulled together by what my mother has told me a hundred times over the years. I don’t remember it, but I am told it happened, and my mother is a believer who does not waver in what she says happened in the...
August 2011
1 post
I had a moment today when I thought about updating this, but then I decided a glass of wine sounded better.
At one point today I was venting to a colleague about one of my classes. I am somewhat astounded by the fact that as I stood there, trying to teach about ‘ethos’ (aka, one of the three tenants of Aristotle’s triangle of rhetorical speech, which states that...
April 2011
3 posts
Let's have a heart to heart...
If we all sit down and share our feelings, then everything is going to be okay.
Threaten me
throw rocks at your classmates
waste a year of class time for 12 other people so you can have your one man show of bravado
turn my head away with your ugly words about my ugly face
say fuck me, and fuck my momma
tell me I am going to get shot some day, by a student, for being a ‘snitch’
...
March 2011
3 posts
Getting literal.
Assignment: Rewrite the following idiomatic expressions to express the literal meaning.
Expression: “No one invites Jerry to parties because he is a wet blanket.”
Meaning: “No one invites Jerry to parties because he is not fun.’
What my students gave me:
“No one invites Jerry to parties because he sweats a lot.”
“No one invites Jerry to parties...
The things that make us go on...
Today I met with some parents after school. The mother, hefty and wearing this terrified look that some parents wear, pulled self-consciously at her pink “Disneyland” shirt, while the father scrutinized the posters on the wall, possibly just avoiding my gaze, or perhaps examining the promises posted of college, career, life after graduation. I know, based on the student records, that...