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An Open Letter to The School District
I read this last night at our school board meeting. I also crossposted it at the CFA site. Ladies and Gentleman of the board—thank you for giving me this opportunity to say some words. Words: developed from language because we, as people, thought that conveying information was valuable. Words, which I wrote (and am now…
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Death of the Comic Book Hero
Got this group discussion question in my inbox the other day from The Write Jerry, one of the Geek Friends: In the Golden Age, the prototypes for many great heroes were created. In the Silver Age, those heroes were reworked. In the Modern Age, those heroes were over worked… Have any new major superheroes been created in the past 25 years?…
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Towards Valuation of the Arts
The Arts aren’t important. They’re the cherry on top; the second layer of frosting; a pretty, yet ultimately unnecessary, addition. Really they’re nice, look really well on your living room wall, or playing from your stereo system—they might even make you think pretty things; but really, they’re not necessary. After all, they’re the first thing…
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‘Twas The Night Before Printing
An original poem inspired by ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore.
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1500
While randomly musing about life and all of its material costs, I thought I would do a list of things that add up to $1500. Just interesting once you consider the ridiculousness of the equal dollar amounts.
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No Book For You
Well, Governor Rendell approved the new state budget where our property taxes remain the same, more money is put into the public schools and the money for the public library gets cut. Yesterday I was told that in the near future they’d be charging for inter-library loans. An elderly lady on the line started stammering…
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Fall 2009 TV Season
In this post I refer to the television season as an actual season of the year. So the Fall Season is one season and the spring season is a second season, even if television (20-26 episodes = 1 season) doesn’t work like that. I use this vernacular because sometimes shows don’t come back after January…
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Racism, Bloggers and Being Black
On Facebook, I’ve seen some Pennsylvania friends calling for the (I think wrongful) boycott of a local businessman on account of his perceived racism with a link to a blog post on Obama’s inauguration as proof. I followed the link and didn’t think it was racist (though one phrase could have been de-contextualized as such)…
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A Poem “The Cricket”
In honor of Edgar Allen Poe (and his poem The Raven) and in memory of the crickets that like to appear in my home every year (a moment of silence for them, please), around this time: