Ahhhh, Spooky Spooky Now
Edgar Allen Poe read by 2 dudes who are spooky enough as it is.
Happy Halloween!
October 30, 2007
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October 25, 2007
MTV Unplugged
I came across this extraordinarily detailed and awesome site with what looks to be everyone who appeared on MTV Unplugged. The set lists are complete to the point that they have all the songs recorded, both what was broadcast and what wasn’t.
(insert something about: fond memories; excitement in hearing different arrangements of familiar songs; a wide ranging and immaculately thought out critique about the integrity and artistic creativity present at the start of the series and how that changed to the inevitable cliché and commercialized conclusion, which is revived every couple of years for yet another whoring; close parentheses and post the post.)
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October 10, 2007
Why Pre-School Field Trips Rock
Porter’s pre-school went to Thies Farm yesterday (I70 & N. Hanley) and I took a half day so I could go.
It was a blast. Hay ride, a pirate ship that sat on a small hay maze, a big ol’ slide, castle made of hay that you could climb to the roof of after going through a dark hay maze. All the kids got a small pumpkin too. We were there a couple of hours. A good time was had by all.
At bedtime we had the following discussion:
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Me: What was your favorite part about today?
Porter: Going to the pumpkin patch.
Me: That was a lot of fun wasn’t it.
Porter: Yef!
Me: What was your favorite thing at the pumpkin patch?
Porter: Being there with you.
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Stuff like that just makes my day for days and days.
We’ve got the best little man in the whole wide world and we tell him so every day.
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October 5, 2007
Baseball Game Pics (from 9-15-07)
Finally got a second to pick out some of the great shots from the annual Cards/Cubs game Jake has been organizing for 8 or 9 years now.
No narrative this time, just pictures and a couple of video clips.
Truman , Truman, Donovan, & Porter , Porter & Truman , Donovan,
Corinne, Jessie , Busy Applause , Busy Binocular Shot
Short video clip of Jessie hanging out in her very own seat.
Unrelated, but worthy of inclusion nonetheless is Porter’s punk rock ABC’s.
See y’all!
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October 2, 2007
My First Test
I keep forgetting to post this.
I took my first test a couple of weeks in my class. Since high school I’ve dreaded tests but I read the book a couple times, went over my notes and spent the break before the test fielding questions from classmates.
End result, of the 50 multiple choice questions I got 49 of them right. Pretty happy with myself, even though it was just picking between A, B, C, or D. I had to scratch my head about 3 of them but made my best logical choice and moved on. A few of the questions were even like this:
Technology moved forward from wax cylinder to vinyl to cassette to:
A) Vixen
B) Bea Arthur
C) Compact Discs
D) The Hawley Smoot Tariff Act
Unfortunately it was one of those ‘duh’ questions I missed.
The exact wording escapes me (even though I obsessed over it for a couple of days) but it was essentially “What region of the U.S. is attributed to the birth blues”.
Now, everyone who’s ever read anything about the blues knows it’s the Mississippi Delta. Robert Johnson, Elmore James, Muddy Waters, all those guys came from that area.
How could I get that wrong? What region of the U.S did I select, perhaps in a moment of panic?
Sasketchewan.
Dammit.
At least I have a 98% in the class right now.
I haven’t written about school at length yet but I have intention of getting to it. Everytime I start something about class reminds me of something else, and it’s all gotta tie together.
While you’re on the edge of your seats, browse some of the no doubt creative bands propagating in that fine Canadian province.
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