I just realized I haven’t posted about Tshirts in a long time.
Anyone who knows me knows how much I love crazy T-shirts. Occasionally i’ll wear a T-shirt to teach in, but sometimes I worry that that i’m dressing too casual for teaching (though i’ve seen other teachers in shorts and flip-flops). When I wear T-shirts [...]

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Last night, at the community college where I teach Ted and I gave a presentation titled That’s So Gay! for our annual Literary Arts Festival. It was the kickoff event, a reading/interrogation by several of the professors of the school. Our theme for the Lit. Arts Festival this year is The Writer As Activist and [...]

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Oh, today I mourn the last day of teaching poetry! Alas!
We’re heading into fiction after today. Last week I shared this Billy Collins poem with
the class. Billy Collins. Sigh. I still have a man-crush on him (does that make me gay?).
If you’ve read his poems you’ll know why.
Class Picture, 1954
Billy Collins
I am the third [...]

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So I gave my Creative Writing class some more poetry prompts (for the 2nd leg of the poetry section) today. One of the prompts is a “list poem.”
I’m really a big fan of lists in writing–no matter the genre– the cataloging of things– Aaron Hamburger uses lists in creative ways in his book Faith For [...]

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I’m almost finished with Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
Boo-ra. Let me just say how terrifying, how sad, how beautifully written The Road is.
Quick plot synopsis from NYTimes:
In “The Road” a boy and his father lurch across the cold, wretched, wet, corpse-strewn, ashen landscape of a post-apocalyptic world. The imagery is brutal even by Cormac McCarthy’s high [...]

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Three Little Words, is an MGM musical from 1950 that tells the true story (meaning it totally fictionalizes) of songwriters Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby (together they wrote “Who’s Sorry Now,” “I Wanna Be Loved By You,” and “A Kiss To Build A Dream On” among others). Kalmar is played by Fred Astaire, Red Skelton [...]

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I’m back teaching now– two classes that I absolutely love: Advanced Composition and Introduction to Creative Writing. Thus i’ve been a bit lax on posting the last few days, sorry! But i’ll get back into the swing of it by the end of the week.
Just some quick notes for now.
Joined Goodreads– so cool to see [...]

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My semester(s) is (are) done. what a confusing sentence, eh?
I mean i’m done with my two schools–finals graded, grades and attendance turned in. I don’t think i’ll be going back until January(yay!).
I’m so wanting to finish this book i’ve been reading, “The Perfect Man,” by Naeem Murr. It’s beautifully written, and I love that [...]

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Hi.
I’m done with my semester(s)! Well, I have to give a final exam on Wednesday but i’m pretty much done with my semester. And, i’m just about done with grading. I haven’t been this far ahead in grading since, I don’t know when.
I hope y’all don’t mind if I rant for just a [...]

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Overheard at Grossmont College, El Cajon as i’m walking to the class that I teach…
Preppy-clothed (kakis, polo shirt, white t-shirt underneath), unshaven, slightly geeky-looking guy, early 20s to his two male buddies:
“You know, Dracula backwards is alucard.”
His friends both look at him and nod, one has his mouth slightly open in wonderment.

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