Friday Random Ten – The “How Many Licks Does It Take?” Edition
It’s midnight somewhere, and that means it’s time for the Friday Random Ten. Get your favorite mp3 player and upload all the files to the playlist. Go! List the first ten songs that play. 1) Wilco – Hell Is Chrome 2) Gil Scott Heron – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 3) Frank Frost – [...]
...read moreThings One Might Want To Know When One Reads My Blog
1.) I have been writing on the internet for close to ten years, and maintained a blog for nearly five. Over this time, I have been called every name in the book, received idle death threats, been contacted at my home address and phone number, and had my son and my parenting skills insulted, berated, [...]
...read moreHoly Shit, It’s Spring Break
I’m not doing anything remotely productive for the next nine days, unless you call knitting, blogging, playing with the boy, Nintendo, Pablo-lovin’, and eyeing the crocus peeking through the dirt in the backyard productive.
...read moreWhat I’m Reading Since I’m Not Writing
Feministe occasionally aims to subvert the dominant link paradigm. Feminism • Via Chaos Theory, a college course on being single. • Hugo on “How To Shut Your Wife Out of Business” • Media Girl highlights pro-consumer politicians. My state’s Evan Bayh is thankfully on the list. I’m willing to bet that if Bayh ever ran [...]
...read moreWJWD
What Jesus wouldn’t do: The hardest saying of Jesus and perhaps the most controversial in our post–Sept. 11 world must be: “Love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you.” Let’s be honest: How many churches in the United States have heard sermons preached from either of these Jesus texts in the years since America [...]
...read moreRock To Rock To
Right click, save as, and hear what I’m listening to as I avoid studying. Peaches – Operate I can’t believe that Peaches, queen of the crotch, is featured on the Mean Girls soundtrack. Imagine all the parents of teenage girls freaking out when their daughters bring home a Peaches CD. Here’s to being subversive and [...]
...read moreSpeaking of Eliot…
The Love Song of J. Alfred Fan Time to go, then, don’t you think, While the Zamboni smooths the ice upon the rink, Like a patient waitress, polishing her table; Let us go, through crowd-congested streets, The deep bass thumping beats Of restless SUV’s in left turn-only lines And sawhorse barriers with detour signs Signs [...]
...read moreTeaching Prufrock
Heliogue expressed that teaching T.S. Eliot would incite head explosions if taught in his own high school. But the school I’m observing is, as I replied, an anomaly of sorts. The school is quite multicultural by Indiana standards and in a very affluent part of town. Students are primarily children of professors and executives. The [...]
...read moreIf I Were a Stripper/Queen
My name would be Ms. Kitty Trail. Just so you know. As you can see, I’m working very hard on mid-term preparation.
...read moreMid-Terms, Schools, and Illnesses
Mid-Terms It’s time for mid-terms, which means it is also time for the obligatory scholastic disillusionment post. Tonight I practice my ASL handshape story, a five minute story told through the use of body language and next to no actual signs, and study for the Shakespeare mid-term for which I am wholly unexcited. I can’t [...]
...read moreAnniversary
At some point, I missed the two year anniversary of this blog. Unfortunately the archives don’t represent this fact, thanks to the many posts deleted during my MT days. That makes about five years of blogging. In other news, I got the new monitor set up. Now it’s all about the CD burner. Go wish [...]
...read moreKnitter’s Hands? Take Note
Since I started knitting primarily with wool, my hands have been cracking and my nails have been falling apart. My hands look like a cross between an ancient mummy’s and an alien’s. During the monthly jaunt to the health food store, I ran across Badger Body Butter. My hands actually feel human again. And who [...]
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