January 2012
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"The Hospital Window" by James Dickey
I have just come down from my father.
Higher and higher he lies
Above me in a blue light
Shed by a tinted window.
I drop through six white floors
And then step out onto pavement.
Still feeling my father ascend,
I start to cross the firm street,
My shoulder blades shining with all
The glass the huge building can raise.
Now I must turn round and face it,
And know his one pane from the...
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Bonehead Writing by Craig Vetter
-I love reading this essay to my class on the first day. Sets a nice tone.
There’s a sort of low moan that goes up periodically from the English departments at colleges and universities across the country over the fact that most students, even the good ones, can’t write a lick - not a love letter or a suicide note, much less an essay or a term paper. It’s nothing new, but...
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Outside of my grandparent's house (the home my mom...
katieheartsyou:
Hershey Street, San Antonio, Texas.
I will always cherish the memories in this sweet home. Everything from the ugly pink poodles next to the moral of Paris in the front room, the time my Aunt Virginia fell on the side walk and broke her new phone while trying out my brother’s new spiderman skateboard, the odor of the garage, christmas day tamales, and all of the wisdom my...
December 2011
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Final Grades Due @ 5:00?
Final grades entered at five.
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To Myself in Ten Years
We’ll live like serpents, you and I. Leviathans spinning whirlpools from calm waters, swallowing ships and sirens, alike. Our arms will break with the tide, snap at the scapula and dissolve in the silt while atrophy twists our legs to fins. Drifting beneath the current, we’ll pan concrete ruins for gold until our fingertips prune gray and flake off like paint. I will pull you under, ...
November 2011
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Douche Bag Tattoos
So, I’m at a diner with my best friend. He’s on the phone with his womanly-lady friend, and I’m looking up wrestling articles instead of writing a paper.
I’m productive like that.
Anyway, some how the conversation across the booth turned to what makes a good tattoo, and he says, “I don’t know, just don’t get a douche bag tattoo.” He knows what he...
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I HAVE AN ANNOUNEMENT
I’m coming home right now, like I’m literally just about to pull out of the drive way.
If you are in Warrensburg this week for Thanksgiving, I want to see you. If you’re in England, I wish i was visiting you in Des Moines. That seems appropriate.
I love you guys, I miss you guys. /endsentamentality
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Pop Punk's Not Dead Tour Set Lists
propertyofzack:
The Pop Punk’s Not Dead Tour featuring New Found Glory, Set Your Goals, The Wonder Years, Man Overboard, and This Time Next year kicked off just a few days ago. The set lists that each of the bands have been playing so far can be seen below by clicking “Read More”.
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It’s gonna be a good night.
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“There’s a reason we all listen to punk rock instead of top 40. There’s a reason...”
– Soupy Campbell
October 2011
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“Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us. How...”
– Robert California
yeah, I just quoted The Office.
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The most subtly awesome moment from tonight's...
The blue crystal meth in Meryl’s bag. Cross referencing for the win.
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A Cure for Dead Dogs by Craig Morgan Teicher
… as if weather were a cure for childhood. —Bin Ramke
As if time were a cure. As if all things pass, this too shall pass were a cure for time, the time it takes, time enough, a little more time. As if waking with a taste in your mouth were a cure for childhood, a sweaty sweaty dream, a monster, an angel in the closet, under the bed were a cure for a ghost. As...
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I would totally read this series.
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Someone needs to publish a book on grammar usage that doesn’t involve words like “In grammar, a clause is the smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition” and just says, “a clause is a subject doing something.”
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September 2011
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Last week I used the music video for “Sic Transit Gloria” by Brand New and assigned what is essentially an album review to help teach analysis. Tomorrow I’m using Epic Meal Time to help teach cliches. I hope my students think class is as awesome as I do.
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Lucifer by Dean Young
You can read almost anything about angels, how they bite off the heads first, copulate with tigers, tortured Miles Davis until he stuck a mute in his trumpet to torture them back. The pornographic magazines ported into the redwoods. The sweetened breath of the starving. The prize livestock rolls over on her larval young, the wooden dwarf turning in the cogs of the clockworks. I would have...
Holy Breaking Bad.
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August 2011
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-21) →
Bury Your Dead (54)
P.O.S. (52)
Make Do and Mend (39)
A Plea For Purging (30)
Breaking Bad (20)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Just got the new Thrice album
Heck yes. I love these dudes.
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William Carlos Williams, "Danse Russe"
putthison:
If when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees,- if I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror waving my shirt round my head and singing softly to myself: “I am lonely, lonely, I was born to be lonely, I am best so!” If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks...
July 2011
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June 2011
9 posts
I think my account just got spammed, so if you see anything weird coming from me, please ignore it.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-19) →
The Wonder Years (8)
Jay-Z and Linkin Park (2)
Where the enemy Sleeps (1)
Pixies (1)
Fireworks (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-12) →
The Wonder Years (24)
Comeback Kid (11)
Blindside (1)
O’Brother (1)
Eloi Eloi (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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My Life as Greg Brady
Wednesday night was the final nail in my undergrad. After a few hours of scrubbing, sucking, scraping, and cruising around town looking for empty dumpsters to unload our crap in, my roommates and I successfully cleared out the house that I’ve spent nearly the past three years and seven roommates with.
I have officially moved back home.
Crash and I are sharing the basement with my little...
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Welcome Home
I thought about making a whole new blog for this, but decided not to.
At this point, I’m a soon to be twenty-three year old college graduate. Like many of my fellow students, I’ve spent the past six months applying for real jobs (barely) and sending out grad school applications. A few months ago I accepted a Graduate position at the University of Missouri-St. Louis where I’ll be...
