I have now bought so many wedding, baby and going away gifts from the same store that they recognize me and give me a frequent customer discount. ARE.YOU.FUCKING.KIDDING.ME ( Read more... )

Okay, Okay, I know its been a while since I have talked about "The Man" and "the book" but in my internet tottering around I just learned that the book---my book--won an award ( Read more... )

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Tonight I decided to pull up a free movie on the digital cable, and consider it for inclusion in my World History classes next year. Thirteen Days is about the Cuban Missile crisis and is a (sometimes shoddy) adaptation of the book on the same name, but for a class of high school students I thought it might be just the thing to illustrate the Cold ( Read more... )

Go here and look at this. best . video. EVAR
http://stereogum.com/archives/video/new-bpa-feat-david-byrne-dizzee-rascal-video-toe-j_010377.html

Or ...here is good, too.

Stop marrying people you went to high school with. Seriously.

Live, explore, venture outside the incestuous circle of the gifted and academically talented high school. This is not the reunion episode of "Fame!"

So yesterday I was all psyched for my souf florida adventure, though I was not 100%. It's my first real roadtrip of any distance, and I had even purchased a GPS ( Read more... )

So a few weeks ago I had to submit a syllabus for review by AP to make sure my course was "up to standards ( Read more... )

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