I'm back!
Phew! Can you smell that horrible stench coming from Cyberspace? Yup. That's my blog - getting stale and, as Nacho Libre would lament, so "a-stinky." I figured it was about time to say something, so here I am saying something. I've actually been doing a lot of nothing lately, spending my last summer vacation before the hell of doctoral studies breaks loose in my life in about a month. More on that later.
I think this blog is going to be dedicated to GOOD vs. BAD. So, here goes -
GOOD: Al Gore's new movie "An Inconvenient Truth." Yes, the world may actually be coming to an end this time. GO WATCH THIS MOVIE!
BAD: Nacho Libre. The movie was... a-stinky... Not even a cameo by Uncle Rico could have saved it.
GOOD: The new, extremely mellow CD by Alexi Murdoch, "Time Without Consequence," coming to an IPOD near you.
BAD: Britney Spears' new look... I call it "Country-Trash-Milkjug" ...
GOOD: The elipsis... better than a period, a comma or a dash... light and crisp and no aftertaste...
BAD: Insects... I went night Geocaching with my wife last week and had 42% of my blood drained out by some kind of cosmic killer mosquitos. The bites simply won't heal and seem immune to calamine lotion and hydrocortisone. I look like I have the pox all over my legs.
GOOD: Geocaching, the most postmodern of games. Check it out at geocaching.com
BAD: Old age. Man, my eyesight is getting worse and worse. And my hearing, and my memory, and my baldness... hmm... what was I talking about?
GOOD: George Bush... that's right, he's good! He stands for truth, justice, and the American way! USA! USA! USA! USA!
BAD: Iran, Iraq, Afganistan, North Korea, and of course, France. These countries all stand for the opposite of what we stand for, and therefore they represent lies, injustice, and the Un-American way! BOO! BOO! BOO! BOO! BOO!
GOOD: Irony - you can say one thing, but mean something else. This confuses some people, but for others it's fun.
BAD: Robots - they are coming and they will not be happy. Remember this!
posted by mavengloiven at 3:41 AM
2 Comments:
I wanted to post a message to Rosie - I'm doing it here because I figured that you're more likely to read this "new" thing than go back to those "old" things...
I just wanted to say thanks for the kind words and tell you that I appreciate you, too. I suppose you know this, but 7th period last year was pretty... trying... especially at the beginning of the year... but you were always supportive, positive, interested, and... well...nice! So I just decided that I was going to focus my efforts on students like you who care... and it was a much more positive thing for me after that decision.
It's a shame that teachers haven't treated you like a "person" because you are such a cool, talented and great person - you have so much to offer the world, and you have so much wisdom and maturity for someone your age - it's kind of unfair! If my classroom was filled with students like you, the truth is I might not have left the profession...
Keep in touch! I'm glad you signed on to the blog. Sorry it took me so long to respond to your comments. I've been just so terribly lazy this summer.
See you in cyberspace!
$JDOLLA$
Hey Steve-O... that's great about the AP test, but I'm not surprised... your writing got better and better as the year progressed, I thought. Cool that Ms. Bugg put that group together. I hope all you gangstas will keep in touch. I'm gonna miss you!
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