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I've been busy and sick, sorry
posted 2008/10/10 at 15:57
The former probably caused the latter to a great extent; this has not been a good week for me. Anyway, on this day in 1969 King Crimson released In the Court of the Crimson King, which I'm sure makes Don and I feel really old even though it was before either of us were born. Now for the friday5.org Friday Five.1. "My hands are tied" is an English-language cliché that means "I’d like to do something about this unfortunate situation, but I don’t have the ability or authority." In what current situation do you feel your hands are tied?Must ... resist ... literal ... interpretation. There's a lot of stuff I wish I could take care of around the house for Mom, but between all the work I've got on my plate right now and this cold, I can't really do much.2. Railroad ties are the evenly-spaced slats that lie perpendicular to train tracks and whose function is to hold the tracks in place and to distribute the weight of the train. Who are the railroad ties in your life?My family. They're pretty much the only source of stability I have now.3. What are your feelings about Thai food?I've never had it; my palate is much more suited towards Western foods than Eastern.4. Whose thighs do you admire?I really don't pay attention to things like this in the first place, and particularly right now I'm not looking for anyone in that particular market.5. A red tide is a proliferation (in ideal circumstances) of oceanic algae that often seem to discolor seawater and threaten other sealife. If the ocean is your life and the algae the harmful attitudes, thoughts, or moods that crowd out the good stuff, under what conditions in your life is red tide most likely to become a problem?When I'm overstressed and depressed, which has been most of the time lately.Labels: fridayfive.comments [0]
The best minds of my generation, too
posted 2008/10/03 at 15:53
On this date fifty-one years ago, Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" was ruled not obscene after obscenity charges were brought up against Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and owner of the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, for importing copies of the poem from London. The judge in the case, Clayton Horn, ruled that the poem was of "redeeming social importance," and if you've ever read "Howl" then you know why I say amen to that. Time for the friday5.org Friday Five.1. Under what conditions are you most likely to cause injury to yourself?Playing DDR/ITG doubles, because I always fear I'm going to trip over my own feet moving from pad to pad and fall and break something. (I broke my arm, back in kindergarten, in the same garage I'm playing dance games in now.)2. What named mountain is nearest where you are right now?I have no clue. Toledo's kind of famous for being flatter than month-old soda.3. When did you last eat something with coconut in it?03.21, what would have been Dad's birthday, when I had German chocolate cake, which Mom always made for him every birthday. (I just got a couple of slices from Kroger, though.) I don't like coconut, but I felt it appropriate to have that cake then.4. Who’s getting on your nerves?Politicians and the media for the most part. I can't wait for this election cycle to get over.5. Somewhere, somebody is asking him- or herself whatever happened to you. Who is it?Given how easy I am to find online, I'd hope that people would just look me up. That being said, I'd hope it would be one of my old crushes, as opposed to, say, the people who only knew me from my pre-.org Internet career and all the dumb things I did back then.Labels: fridayfive.comments [2]
The Brink
posted 2008/10/02 at 19:53
I've had a hard time figuring out just how I should write about the current national/global financial situation, which has, for good reason, been the main topic of most of the news shows I catch. It's hard for me to avoid a guttural, personal reaction to this, not just because my bank is one of the ones that's been reported as being the next to go, but because I've had to take on so many new financial responsibilities since Dad's death. I know that our family financial situation is secure and unlikely to be affected much by all of this stuff that's going on, but with Michigan's economy faltering ever since I started teaching up there, I've seen the effects of bad economic policy in my students for over a year now, and I know that things aren't likely to get better for them any time soon, especially since Michigan's economic infrastructure is so vulnerable to globalization.I do think that the sense of panic that's been pervading the talk of politicians on both sides is overblown, but at the same time it's hard to deny that the current economic situation is one of the biggest challenges to face this country since 09.11. Something needs to be done about this, and soon, but none of the proposals that have been officially pushed out there, from the administration's first $800 billion blank cheque to the bill that goes before the House tomorrow, strike me as helping people like my students. Every bill so far has been geared towards saving companies first when it's the American people who need saving now more than ever. I know a lot of people are saying to wait a few months when the Democrats should have control of the executive and legislative branches, and then hope that they will "fix" what's wrong with the current bill, but I've heard that since Bill Clinton gutted welfare and I'm just not that confident that it'll happen.I do think that the election has, barring a complete game-changer like another terrorist attack or something of that nature, swung to Barack Obama for good. A couple of weeks ago I finally did my own projection for the election, which had Obama winning 273-265. There's no doubt he'll win Iowa, and I felt that he had New Mexico and Colorado in the bank as well. After this past week, though, John McCain is clearly stuck, rightly or wrongly, shouldering the blame people are placing on Republican economic policy. I don't know if states like Virginia and North Carolina will go blue, because I think for lots of voters there the "culture wars" will still trump any other concern, and McCain may still get enough of those conservative Christians to eke out victories in Ohio and Florida, but he will have to spread his resources pretty thin just to hold onto those states. Obama's campaign has twice the money McCain's campaign has, and even if McCain somehow holds all those states (and Nevada), he still loses 273-265. Even in a best-case scenario where he snatches New Hampshire back, that only gets him to 269-269, and the next House would almost certainly elect Obama in that case. There could still be an October surprise or a colossal slip-up from the Obama campaign -- these are Democrats we're talking about, after all -- but I think Obama has the election in the bag now.Labels: politics.comments [0]
April is the cruelest month
posted 2008/09/26 at 15:20
Although this September seems to be coming in a very close second for most of us right now. T.S. Eliot was born on this day in 1888, and although I tend to agree with Adrian C. Louis' opinion of "The Waste Land," "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is one of my favourite poems of all time, and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats was, of course, the inspiration behind the musical Cats, which was in turn a huge obsession of my childhood crush. Time for the friday5.org Friday Five.1. When did someone last break something of yours?I can't remember the last time, but the most vivid was when I was a teenager and my sister, while cleaning my room without my permission, cracked the screen of my Game Gear while throwing a bunch of things into a little plastic bucket I kept on one of my windowsills. She still hasn't gotten it repaired, although I don't exactly play my Game Gear much these days.2. When did you last play hackysack, if ever?I tried it in high school since a few other students were playing it, but I have no real dexterity with my feet, although I guess all these years of DDR might have changed that.3. What was your most dramatic haircut like?Dad always took me to BoRics for my haircuts, and it never failed that he'd get the cute hairstylist, something that always ticked me off. Well, the summer between seventh and eighth grades I finally got the cute one, and of course she wound up cutting off nearly all of my ponytail, tapering it to a fine point. I got one more haircut a few months after that, and haven't had one since; it'll be twenty years since my last haircut next year.4. Hacking is basically breaking through the security that protects a computer or a website. What’s the closest you’ve come to doing something similar in real life?Do they expect honest answers to this question? I don't feel like answering it for fairly obvious reasons.5. In the world of stand-up comedy, a hack is a comic who steals jokes from other comics. Have you ever known a hack in your own field?Teachers borrow techniques from other teachers all the time; we're all trying to figure out readings and activities that will help our students learn and that might actually interest them. I think the "hacks" in our field are the ones who use the Powerpoints and lecture notes and tests that come with the teacher's edition textbooks and don't even try to address the students personally aside from answering an odd question here and there.Labels: fridayfive.comments [0]
From the sidelines
posted 2008/09/21 at 18:47
For whatever reason, last night I actually watched the UT football game on ESPNU. This was my first time ever watching a game on ESPNU, meaning that I have now watched one more Rockets game on there than I have ever watched in person. For whatever reason I just never got around to watching any sports when I was a student at UT, even though I realized that I should at least go to one game of some kind just to say that I'd had that experience as a college student (and while I could get in for free). MCCC doesn't have any intercollegiate sports -- something I always hear from my students about -- so I don't have any opportunities to watch sports in person there either. I guess there was something surreal to watching something live on a national cable network that was happening less than ten miles from my house, even though one of the Professional Bowling Association's annual majors always takes place at a bowling alley less than two miles from here. I suppose that when I was younger I may have wanted to go to these events just to get my face on national television, but that was before I had my little bout with "Internet fame" that's turned me off of the concept of achieving fame for life, and, let's be honest, my face should be on few cameras as humanly possible.While we're on the subject of sports, just to expand on what I wrote on Friday, at this point I've already pretty much given up on all sports but hockey. It's not like I have much time to follow sports these days what with the election and all, but with the resurgence of Tigertown officially over, the Bengals returning to their dismal form of past, and the Pistons unlikely to make any progress from last year, it's just easier for me to forget about all of them right now. On the other hand, the Red Wings re-signed Darren McCarty this past week, so all is once again right in my personal sports world. I doubt the Red Wings will repeat as Stanley Cup champions given the parity of the league, but they'll probably have more fights this year than in the last three years combined, and that will keep me watching as many games as I can. (That's one of the problems with my schedule this term, because I'll likely miss most of the Monday and Wednesday games that aren't on the West Coast.)I'm also preparing to give up my Saturday nights to Hockey Night in Canada once again, and it's only now that I'm really able to appreciate just how much more I can get done on Saturdays in the offseason. Perhaps my love of hockey is affecting my schedule more than I should allow, but I take a strange comfort in having those hockey doubleheaders to look forward to at the end of the week. That results in my Sundays being kind of hectic as I rush to get things ready for Monday -- kind of like I am today, because I got booked up with all sorts of other things yesterday -- but in the end it seems worth it. I don't make pretensions of being some kind of hockey expert (though I don't let that stop me from making silly predictions like the one in the last paragraph), but I am a hockey fan, and maybe I need to be that hockey fan because it's one of the few opportunities I allow myself to stop overanalyzing every little thing and just enjoy something.Labels: sports.comments [0]
Still Here
posted 2008/09/19 at 15:39
My apologies for blog silence the past week; events from this past weekend have put me into an uncomfortable place emotionally. In the past I probably would have posted my raw emotions here, but those posts were never well-received and I don't think that they'd serve me well given that I'm now using the .org as an arm of my professional life. I can't make any guarantees as to when I'll be able to resume a regular posting schedule, but that will probably come as soon as I can deal with some of my problems here. Anyway, today would have been the 87th birthday of Paulo Freire, an educator whose influence on my own teaching methodologies cannot be overstated; I encourage you all to read up on him and his work. Now for the friday5.org Friday Five.1. What’s the cutest of the small, furry animals?Kittens, and we finally brought in one of the ones that had been hanging outside of our house. (The others had already left, and this one clearly had had some troubles as we saw the other kittens picking on her.) Her name is Spookytooth, and surprise, she's all-black.2. What predator impresses you the most?No one in Nashville particularly impresses me right now; they underachieved all season long last season, and the uncertainty about the franchise's future in Nashville will probably take its toll this season Wait, that wasn't what you meant?3. After which animal will you name your professional sports team?When I was a kid and I wanted a professional sports team in Toledo, I always wanted them to be named the Tornadors. I guess I was in love with alliteration even back then. As far as an animal, I suppose it would be some kind of jungle cat, but so many of those are taken up already by bad teams in all sports. (I gave up on the Tigers months ago, and on the Bengals before their season had even started.)4. What’s an unusual animal that you know a little something about?Nothing comes to mind with this one. I'm sure I know some kind of trivia about rare animals, but I can't think of any now.5. Your high school probably had some kind of mascot or symbol, but based on your memories of it, what animal should REALLY have been the emblem?An iron fist crashing down on the hopes and dreams of young, innocent children. (See, this is why I haven't been posting this past week.)Labels: fridayfive.comments [0]
Hans Zimmer turns 51 today
posted 2008/09/12 at 11:55
Put on your copy of the Backdraft soundtrack and remember back when Iron Chef wasn't Americanized into banality. Time for the friday5.org Friday Five.1. Who lets you have your way more than you should?Mom has always been far too subservient to pretty much everyone in her life, but especially me. I've tried to be more conscious of this since Dad's death, but I still don't feel like I'm as good at this as I should be.2. According to the cliché, the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, but what’s the way to yours?My brain. I don't plan on ever being anything but single again in my life, but if I ever do decide to look for a partner again, I want someone who is at least my match intellectually, if not more so.3. What’s something that should have been put away but hasn’t been?My boxes full of paperwork and portfolios of my first year of teaching at MCCC. Those should really be taken down to the garage soon, because they're taking up space in the hall outside my room right now.4. When did you last weigh yourself?Years ago; even when I had that long string of dieting from the start of 2007 until Dad's death, I wanted to go more by how I felt than numbers on a scale, since those numbers can vary so much. The worst part is that I paid a lot of money for a good scale a year and a half ago, but I still haven't used it.5. What do the cops in the donut shop say?First of all, it's doughnut (donut is a Dunkin Donuts creation), and secondly, that's horribly stereotypical. (Yeah, I'm being anal about political correctness here, so what?)Labels: fridayfive.comments [1]
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