January 2008
Days like this.
There are good days. There are bad days. Then there are jaw-dropping days, days where you witness one of your students - a generally sweet, but somewhat troubled 12-year-old girl - struggling as she’s escorted, handcuffed, by 2 police officers to a squad car following a knife fight. Guess which one today was?
#56: Hulk hate bells! →
New York Lottery →
erockappel:
My good friend, Brett Gelman, is the new mascot for the NY Lottery. He’s called “Little Bit Of Luck.” Watching him run around the NY Lotto site as a tiny flash based character is extremely surreal…and hilarious.
“Taste is subjective. Taste is democratic. Taste is powerful. Taste…is also...”
– Marcus Samuelsson (chef), as quoted on my Starbucks cup from this afternoon’s impromptu latte run to Parkchester.
We endorse...
Barack Obama.
“I had just been asked a question — I don’t remember which one...”
– reblogged from Andrew Sullivan (via anthonyking)
“I’m 25 and for my entire life a Bush or a Clinton has been in the executive...”
– [NY Times] (via katespencer)
Books That Make You Dumb. →
Yesterday: the most depressing day of the year. -... →
Learning is lifelong. From the BBC, 100 things... →
WatchUCBCOMEDY.COM is live! Check it out! — anthonyking
Brad Renfro is dead. He was 25. How sad. Also, he... →
Not everyone can play guitar.
I’ve been on a VH1 Classic binge lately. I’ve seen documentaries/vintage concerts that center on the Who and the Rolling Stones. You know what’s weird? When you see concert footage of Mick Jagger or Roger Daltrey and they’re playing guitar, sort of. It just looks…wrong. And terrible. Quite terrible. And unnatural.
“He looks like you.”
– Man at newsstand, midtown Manhattan, pointing to a picture of Benicio Del Toro. Suffice it to say I bought the magazine.
“I hate Boston so much right now that I keep hoping for a terrorist attack on...”
– my brother Ben
This was my horoscope from today's "Washington...
For Wednesday, January 9 -Big news is coming to your group soon, and while all the others may react emotionally, you don’t need to fly off the handle. This is something that you have been suspecting for quite a while, so the news flash won’t be much of a news flash for you. Help everyone else come to terms with the revelation by showing them that it’s really not that big of a...
“I saw Willie Mays at a Scottsdale Home Depot
Looking at garage door springs at...”
– Joe Henry, “Our Song”
Rob McElhenny from "It's Always Sunny In... →
By the way - I knew he was a creator and writer of the show, but also the showrunner? Impressive.
A Iraq Soldier/Blogger wrote an entry to be posted... →
reblogged from katespencer My kid brother is in the Navy. My sister-in-law and my former roommate, the Army. All of them have spent time in the sandbox out there. This piece blew me away with a sense of perspective I’d never thought of before, and I was crying when I finished reading it.
“Ms. [redacted] said you’d understand.”
– One of my students, who I’d had removed from the classroom because of disruption, came back from Ms. [redacted] with a sad look on his face. He then pointed to his forehead to the sticker she’d put on his forehead that said “I’m sorry.” Funniest Friday moment...
“We are friends for life. When we’re together, the years fall away....”
– Judy Blume (This quote actually made me choke up a bit. Judy Blume. Who knew?)
All about Sixpoint's Belgian-Style IPA beer, which... →
I am stuck in 1995.
R.E.M. have a new record coming out (in April) and I am stoked, largely because I’ve heard the new songs and they rock (for R.E.M.). The only difference between me now and me in 1995 is that I don’t have a lot of terrible-looking, stringy hair to push away from my face as I make this statement. One of these days, internet, you shall behold my glorious mane of teenaged hair.