1. Howard Zinn
2. Russell Simmons
3. Marian Wright Edelman... 's agent
Yeah.
2/29/2008
2/28/2008
Only on a university campus
can a guy sit around sipping a latte and chatting with colleagues in a brown suit and a red bowtie and take himself seriously. It's 20-fucking-08, guy.
2/27/2008
Okay, I'm not a huge Unofficial fan, but
is this the best they can do?
And you know, I like that Nick Burbules guy. He gave a talk about blogging at the Y that I mentioned here. Nick, come on... What are dorks like me going to do? Why not take a page from Students for Environmental ConcernS book, and plan something sweet that gives students a viable option to be not-completely-heinous:
You're welcome, by the way, for this all-access pass to my email.
And you know, I like that Nick Burbules guy. He gave a talk about blogging at the Y that I mentioned here. Nick, come on... What are dorks like me going to do? Why not take a page from Students for Environmental ConcernS book, and plan something sweet that gives students a viable option to be not-completely-heinous:
You're welcome, by the way, for this all-access pass to my email.
a bright idea!
Governor Schwarzenegger creates a new cabinet position in Cali, Secretary of Volunteering and Service? Um, awesome. The only downside is that now what you see below can no longer really be called "subversive citizen beach-cleaning."
2/23/2008
2/21/2008
This isn't the triumphant return.
Not even close.
More than once in the past week, I've made plans with students to meet outside of their regular class time, during lunch, before or after school, stuff like that. Each time, I ask her/him to be responsible, and make sure that s/he keeps the time, and each time s/he has responded, "Okay. I'll put an alarm in my phone." 21st century, huh?
When I was in high school, eons ago, cell phones were a HUGE hell-no. They're still against the rules, but I see a lot of kids using them in school for things that adults use their phones for, too. Remembering appointments. Keeping to-do lists.
The other day, there was a massive field trip; a fourth of the student body was in St. Louis checking out some biology-related exhibit. I heard two teachers remarking in the hall that they knew things were going well and that the students were having fun because they had been calling their friends in school to tell them about it. Both teachers commented that even though they knew the kids weren't supposed to be using their phones in school, it was kinda nice to know how everything was going.
I wonder if the cell phone rule will let up anytime in the near future?
More than once in the past week, I've made plans with students to meet outside of their regular class time, during lunch, before or after school, stuff like that. Each time, I ask her/him to be responsible, and make sure that s/he keeps the time, and each time s/he has responded, "Okay. I'll put an alarm in my phone." 21st century, huh?
When I was in high school, eons ago, cell phones were a HUGE hell-no. They're still against the rules, but I see a lot of kids using them in school for things that adults use their phones for, too. Remembering appointments. Keeping to-do lists.
The other day, there was a massive field trip; a fourth of the student body was in St. Louis checking out some biology-related exhibit. I heard two teachers remarking in the hall that they knew things were going well and that the students were having fun because they had been calling their friends in school to tell them about it. Both teachers commented that even though they knew the kids weren't supposed to be using their phones in school, it was kinda nice to know how everything was going.
I wonder if the cell phone rule will let up anytime in the near future?
2/20/2008
If you're wondering where I've been,
I've been feeling sorry for myself for the assloads of work I've had to get done over the past week-ish. But I miss my blog. So I plan on making a triumphant return as soon as I find something freaking sweet to blog about. I've got funny stuff from school to write about, but I don't really know what the privacy rules are on that kind of stuff. Eh.
2/16/2008
Townies Behaving Oddly (part 2)
I went to Rosati's to get a slice of pizza and grade papers tonight, but I couldn't concentrate because the couple sitting at the table next to me was singing everything. Seriously, they had their entire conversation in song. It was a very weird experience to be an on-looker; I actually could not believe my ears.
I met a townie last night who's voting Hillary.
Go figure. I mean this guy seemed like your stereotypical east-central-Illinois-born-and-bred-Republican. But nope. He's like, "A woman runs my house; a woman should run the White House."
2/09/2008
super-sweet stuff-stealing skills
One of my former profs posted this entry not too long ago detailing instances of online syndication of an article he wrote for a print journal. Pretty interesting stuff:
I remember some discussion of forms of syndication in his class. One example we came up with was sampling in the music industry, and particularly in hip hop. I looked into that a little bit more for a project for another class using this article as a jumping off point.
The content I'm hosting below reminded me of those more interesting (at least I think) pursuits, but something about the image of John Mellencamp all like, "Dude! No!" strikes me as funny and definitely worth blogging about.
"In case you haven't noticed, the web supports some pretty robust forms of syndication. Syndication disrupts how we traditionally think of authorship, in that what is on any given web page is not necessarily written by the author of that page. And I'm not talking only about something being copied from one page to another, but syndicated in the sense that content from one site is hosted on another."
I remember some discussion of forms of syndication in his class. One example we came up with was sampling in the music industry, and particularly in hip hop. I looked into that a little bit more for a project for another class using this article as a jumping off point.
The content I'm hosting below reminded me of those more interesting (at least I think) pursuits, but something about the image of John Mellencamp all like, "Dude! No!" strikes me as funny and definitely worth blogging about.
2/08/2008
2/07/2008
personal victory
Today at school I was able to silence my "That's what she said" reflex not once, but twice. I can't believe it. And let me tell you, I had some killer opportunities.
student: "Ms. Dahlke! Can you come here? I don't know what to do with this thing. It's too long and hard!"
another student: "My locker's broke and I can't get any of my books or homework out."
me: "That sucks. What's wrong with it?"
him: "The thing that you pull on won't come up."
On a more professional note, I think one of the best things about teaching so far has been the large number of times I've been in a position to genuinely compliment someone. With about seventy-five students all working on independent research projects, I've been doing a lot of one-on-one conferencing. It's been great for helping me to get to know each of them, and to take notice of their progress. You know, to see them coming along well (that's what she said?).
student: "Ms. Dahlke! Can you come here? I don't know what to do with this thing. It's too long and hard!"
another student: "My locker's broke and I can't get any of my books or homework out."
me: "That sucks. What's wrong with it?"
him: "The thing that you pull on won't come up."
On a more professional note, I think one of the best things about teaching so far has been the large number of times I've been in a position to genuinely compliment someone. With about seventy-five students all working on independent research projects, I've been doing a lot of one-on-one conferencing. It's been great for helping me to get to know each of them, and to take notice of their progress. You know, to see them coming along well (that's what she said?).
2/05/2008
I promise to return to regular programming soon.
"Together we can build a world that's just and inclusive for all."
With the tizzy that I've been in over Super Tuesday, I almost forgot about this misguided buffoon.
Moving on, or back I should say, look at us two *young* *under 30* voters communicating instantly via the Internets:
me (9:37:04 PM): haha mitt romney's fans are holding up "change" signs
me (9:37:08 PM): change how?
Moe (9:37:17 PM): haha
Moe (9:37:24 PM): his son is named tagg
me (9:37:52 PM): he said that its important to him to preserve the kind of nation that we've had because we all want our children to grow up with the kind of prosperity that we've had
me (9:37:58 PM): um who's "we" motherfucker
me (9:38:13 PM): tagg and mitt. boyhood games
Moe (9:40:47 PM): dog names
me (9:41:10 PM): ha
Moe (9:41:20 PM): yes, I want my children to grow up with racism, homophobia, no separation of church and state, and with a war going on
Moe (9:41:29 PM): what a motherfucker
me (9:41:38 PM): mmm yes and lots of poverty, too
me (9:41:43 PM): and failing schools
Moe (9:41:56 PM): yes, poverty and a giant fence around our country
me (9:42:00 PM): NOW that's the america i'd like to see my non-existent children grow up in
Moe (9:42:04 PM): and no health care!
me (9:42:05 PM): oh yes!
Moe (9:42:33 PM): how can people even buy that shit?
me (9:42:33 PM): and while we're at it
Moe (9:42:42 PM): yes?
me (9:42:43 PM): let's chain chastity belts onto our daughters
Moe (9:43:00 PM): and strip away roe v. wade
me (9:43:10 PM): and stop teaching evolution
me (9:43:21 PM): i'm not related to a monkey!
Moe (9:43:35 PM): haha
Moe (9:43:57 PM): god breathed life into adam and then made eve for child bearing purposes
me (9:44:14 PM): and laundry-doing purposes
Moe (9:44:35 PM): [Moe's ex-boyfriend] (9:44:54 PM): u see my guy huckabee mopping up
Moe (9:44:40 PM): AAHHHHHHHHHHH
me (9:44:48 PM): NO WAY
Moe (9:44:57 PM): huckabee is below the mason-dixon line conserv
me (9:46:33 PM): he fried squirrels with a popcorn maker in his dorm in college
One more thing. I've just watched McCain's speech, and then Obama's, and something has sort of come to me. Their rhetoric is so vastly different, and it's not just a Republican/Democrat, progressive/conservative thing. McCain spoke about the campaign, and about his opponents, and about being the Republican front-runner; his speech was focused. And his audience was supportive but subdued. Obama doesn't have the focus. He talks about the abolitionists and the suffragettes and the freedom-riders and the woman in New Orleans who was told her city won't be rebuilt; and his audience speaks back to him as he speaks to them. It's dynamic. Reminds me of the call-and-response phenomenon in African American English that I looked at in a few of my classes last semester. I wonder what implications the success of Obama's campaign, which must be very much related to his inspiring speeches, might be for the status of African American English in relation to "Standard" English. Although really, he doesn't follow that many of the linguistic rules of African American English (habitual be, absent copula, etc.).
If it's not blaringly obvious to you, my dear reader/s, I've updated this post at various points during my viewing of the primary coverage. Hence the hodge-podge-ness.
With the tizzy that I've been in over Super Tuesday, I almost forgot about this misguided buffoon.
Moving on, or back I should say, look at us two *young* *under 30* voters communicating instantly via the Internets:
me (9:37:04 PM): haha mitt romney's fans are holding up "change" signs
me (9:37:08 PM): change how?
Moe (9:37:17 PM): haha
Moe (9:37:24 PM): his son is named tagg
me (9:37:52 PM): he said that its important to him to preserve the kind of nation that we've had because we all want our children to grow up with the kind of prosperity that we've had
me (9:37:58 PM): um who's "we" motherfucker
me (9:38:13 PM): tagg and mitt. boyhood games
Moe (9:40:47 PM): dog names
me (9:41:10 PM): ha
Moe (9:41:20 PM): yes, I want my children to grow up with racism, homophobia, no separation of church and state, and with a war going on
Moe (9:41:29 PM): what a motherfucker
me (9:41:38 PM): mmm yes and lots of poverty, too
me (9:41:43 PM): and failing schools
Moe (9:41:56 PM): yes, poverty and a giant fence around our country
me (9:42:00 PM): NOW that's the america i'd like to see my non-existent children grow up in
Moe (9:42:04 PM): and no health care!
me (9:42:05 PM): oh yes!
Moe (9:42:33 PM): how can people even buy that shit?
me (9:42:33 PM): and while we're at it
Moe (9:42:42 PM): yes?
me (9:42:43 PM): let's chain chastity belts onto our daughters
Moe (9:43:00 PM): and strip away roe v. wade
me (9:43:10 PM): and stop teaching evolution
me (9:43:21 PM): i'm not related to a monkey!
Moe (9:43:35 PM): haha
Moe (9:43:57 PM): god breathed life into adam and then made eve for child bearing purposes
me (9:44:14 PM): and laundry-doing purposes
Moe (9:44:35 PM): [Moe's ex-boyfriend] (9:44:54 PM): u see my guy huckabee mopping up
Moe (9:44:40 PM): AAHHHHHHHHHHH
me (9:44:48 PM): NO WAY
Moe (9:44:57 PM): huckabee is below the mason-dixon line conserv
me (9:46:33 PM): he fried squirrels with a popcorn maker in his dorm in college
One more thing. I've just watched McCain's speech, and then Obama's, and something has sort of come to me. Their rhetoric is so vastly different, and it's not just a Republican/Democrat, progressive/conservative thing. McCain spoke about the campaign, and about his opponents, and about being the Republican front-runner; his speech was focused. And his audience was supportive but subdued. Obama doesn't have the focus. He talks about the abolitionists and the suffragettes and the freedom-riders and the woman in New Orleans who was told her city won't be rebuilt; and his audience speaks back to him as he speaks to them. It's dynamic. Reminds me of the call-and-response phenomenon in African American English that I looked at in a few of my classes last semester. I wonder what implications the success of Obama's campaign, which must be very much related to his inspiring speeches, might be for the status of African American English in relation to "Standard" English. Although really, he doesn't follow that many of the linguistic rules of African American English (habitual be, absent copula, etc.).
If it's not blaringly obvious to you, my dear reader/s, I've updated this post at various points during my viewing of the primary coverage. Hence the hodge-podge-ness.
2/04/2008
hippie-dippie
Oh yes. What's better than mac and cheese? Peace-sign, organic mac and cheese, right here.
In other news, double-dipping does, in fact, draw death nearer to double-dippers. Whatever, though: "You dip the way you wanna dip; I'll dip the way I wanna dip!"
2/03/2008
2/02/2008
The Dark Side, right here on W California Ave!
As I was walking home this afternoon, the kids that live across the street from me were out playing in the snow. There are three little boys, and two of them were rubbing snow in each other's faces, the only parts of their little bodies not bundled over. The third boy was building a snow fort on his own until he coaxed his brothers over to help him, saying, "Help me build a snow fort! Come over here to the dark side! We have cookies!"
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