December 2010
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Dorky English Teacher Reviews Pop Music
I don’t listen to much top 40 anymore. Too old, too much autotune, blah blah blah. I was feeling out of touch so I spent the last couple week listening to Sirius/XM Hits 1 when in the car, and here are my thoughts.
“Like a G6” - Far East Movement
Other than being totally repetitive to the point of being, perhaps, some sort of subliminal call to arms, I don’t get this at...
July 2009
1 post
Open Letter to NPR & Bill Simmons
An Open Letter to Bill Simmons (aka “The Sports Guy”) and National Public Radio (NPR):
Let me start with my thesis: You two kids need to get together.
NPR, you are a national treasure. Seriously. I’m not just buttering you up here. Your news coverage is reliable and comprehensive. I know that many folks in my demographic (liberalish, educated, under 40) are devoted to you. ...
October 2008
2 posts
Things Sarah Palin Can Name →
Interesting letter from the CEO of a non-failing... →
September 2008
5 posts
The 12 lies of Sarah Palin →
"Dying Of Too Much Choice": Sarah Palin And The... →
It’s just always good to think about The Handmaid’s Tale once in a while.
The 20 questions we would ask Sarah Palin | FP... →
Questions that foreignpolicy.com would ask Sarah Palin if she were actually taking any questions from anybody.
google chrome
I’ve been using google chrome here on the work computer for 2 hours this morning, and I have to say, I’m impressed. It’s minimalist, attractive, and intuitive.
July 2008
6 posts
More birds!
The feeder is exploding! New visitors include some common characters: Red-winged blackbirds, common grackles, among others. There’s been a slightly greenish bird I can’t quite identify as well as blue jays and cardinals. I appreciated the simultaneous appearance of a blue jay and cardinal yesterday, even though they didn’t play any baseball.
I’ll be refilling the feeder...
Birds!
I got a phat (no one says that anymore, do they? I suppose I mean “sick”) bird feeder for my birthday. It’s a “Yankee Flipper,” designed to thwart squirrels. It took about 2 weeks for birds to realize it was there, but now it is a veritable birdfest. This morning we had American Goldfinches and also witnessed a skirmish between a white-tipped dove and a chipmunk...
Two new recipes tonight
Made two new items for dinner. The first was Chipotle Salmon Burgers. We made them on the stove top on the grill pan instead of on the frill (salmon is too fall-aparty). They were spicy indeed (thank you chipotle peppers), but very tasty - a real keeper. The other was also a Cooking Light recipe for Green Beans with Potatoes and Chunky Tomatoes. Was good, but also spicy (even though I halved...
June 2008
11 posts
Waitress
Just watched Waitress and was struck by how it reminded me of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, nicely updated. The concept of a “novel of awakening” is one I find fascinating — rather than come-of-age, female protagonists instead, in their late 20s or 30s, “awake to limitations,” and Waitress’s protagonist spent 90% of the film doing just that. Some aspects...
Another year . . .
Another set of end-of-the-year faculty meetings over. Bliss.
Musical Playlist of Jonas Salk →
I like the Kanye entry the most, I reckon.
Blog by Jeong Soo Kim →
This is a blog by Jeong Soo Kim, a student of mine. During the school year, he updates it every day with pictures from the day and commentary. It is excellent and he’s updating it this summer while he is home in Korea.
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“In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite...”
– http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~creswell/auden.html
Trying out tumblr
Today’s big victory? Delicious turkey satay burgers on the grill. They meant that I had to purchase “fish oil” at the supermarket, which was a first, but the final result was most excellent.