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- Programming Note May 13, 2013B2L2 continues to publish on a monthly schedule, but now the month’s posts will be published in clusters of 2-4, roughly once a week, instead of all at once. […]Derek Bridges
- Monsters May 13, 2013[…]Gerald Cannon
- Narasimha May 13, 2013As a kid, I was fascinated with the tales of the ten avatars of the Hindu god Vishnu. Brahma creates, Siva destroys and Vishnu is the man in the middle who preserves, he keeps the universe going. According to Hindu mythology, there are ten times when things got so bad on Earth that Vishnu had to take on a mortal form and show up to, you know, preserve. Retur […]Maitri
- Five Monsters May 13, 20131. The Alien There are so many great monster movies. Monsters from the deep. Monsters from outer space. Monsters from the laboratory. The walking, crawling, shuffling, sprinting dead. My favorite monster movies? Off the top of my head? Nosferatu. Frankenstein. Godzilla. Alien and Aliens. Let’s see, that’s one vampire, one experiment gone horribly wrong, one […]John Hicks
- Bride of Svengoolie May 13, 2013In first grade, while doing a Svengoolie impression in the mirror in the bathroom, I was discovered by a teacher who moonlighted as an actor at the Robert Young Repertory Theater, a leftover from when Smithville was a resort town, a place where Chicagoans would go to avoid the summer city heat. The teacher was hiding in the middle stall, cloistered for a mom […]John Sheppard
- Where in the hell is Jimmy Gabacho? May 13, 2013Rumors have been flying across the internet regarding the whereabouts of Jimmy Gabacho. He hasn’t posted anything since March and was last seen in a seedy airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, getting ready to catch the Cape Air flight 269 heading to the West Indies. When this reporter spotted him, he declined to comment about his recent activities, which set […]Jimmy Gabacho
- Television April 17, 2013[…]Gerald Cannon
- Ode to TV theme songs April 17, 2013Is the television theme song a dying art? Although I watched a lot of television, few current running shows' themes get me to hurry me back from raiding the fridge other than the intros to The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Most of my favorites are from the 1970s — TV's golden age for theme songs. Chalk it up to a combination of my age, gender, […]Tom Long
- The Macroeconomics of Girls April 17, 2013In HBO’s Girls Hannah Horvath, a precocious Oberlin grad moves to The Big Apple, where she interns at a publishing house for two years–entirely on her parents’ dime. A reliable foundation for a privileged American success story? One would hope. But Girls is not about the guarantee of The (or even “an”) American Dream to this protagonist’s upper-middle-clas […]Amorphous Funk
- Television is April 17, 2013television is the devil television is for you television is becoming a reality television is shown television is the root of all evil television is here to stay television is cooperating television is watching you television is my boyfriend television is catching television is “barely” alive television is the electrical transmission television is beautiful t […]Bob Hate
G Bitch
Not Instead of, in Addition to
crossposted at The G Bitch Spot
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Friday, French Quarter Fest. Capital One Bank Riverside Legacy Stage.
I was not tired, I was not drunk or tipsy or giddy, I wasn’t hungry or dehydrated or hot at all–I’d had three bottles of water, I had three fans in my bag I hadn’t touched because the breeze off the river was steady enough and I had a visor and, until the stem broke because it’d been sat on, an umbrella. I did have a mild headache. A mild pulsing and buzz, a thickness in the back of my head. I thought I’d sat too close to the stage and may’ve been feeling overstimulated, another and irritating FM symptom. Nothing out of the ordinary hurt, which means everything that typically hurts hurt—neck, shoulder muscles, one hip and then the other, calf muscles, finger joints, soles of my feet. Standing, my lower back, hips and legs felt blurry, light and heavy at the same time. I took two steps, my legs feeling discoordinated, like where I aimed them to go was not exactly… Continue reading
What I Learn from I Survived
See I Survived…I Survived…I Survived…, July 1, 2011, for background.
1. For women: When a man threatens with a gun or knife and tells you to do what he says and he won’t hurt you, he will hurt you whether you comply or not.
1A. “You won’t get hurt” doesn’t count rape, gang rape, or being beaten. It means, and only temporarily, that you will not be killed.
1B. Whether you resist or not, you have a 50% or so chance of surviving. You lose nothing by resisting or saying no, running or fighting with whatever you have.
1C. Begging for your life means nothing. If he wants to and has come to kill you, no appeal to humanity, not his and especially not yours, will change the course of events.
2. If you are taken away from your original location, it is unlikely that you will be returned to that location, alive or dead.
3. If you are lost in a blizzard or dangerous cold, eating snow may satisfy your thirst but it will… Continue reading
You Know Why
originally posted at The G Bitch Spot
John White appears poised to be named state schools superintendent this week
No surprise here. This has been wanted since 3 days after he became superintendent of RSD. [Even now, no one in public has asked, or questioned, why.] Now that the privatization forces have BESE in their front pockets, we in NO will have a completely privatized system.
Who voted for that, you might ask.
Problem is when schools like this get their charters pulled or denied. What happens is that the number of seats in city schools goes down, and charter schools are NOT obligated to take students whose schools close or implode.
And this new “systems” is better how exactly for whom?
Solution Meets Problem
crossposted at The G Bitch Spot
The solution:
9/05:
The news racing around the shelter that day was that the Republican Congressman Richard Baker had told a group of lobbyists, “We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.” Joseph Canizaro, one of New Orleans’ wealthiest developers, had just expressed a similar sentiment: “I think we have a clean sheet to start again. And with that clean sheet we have some very big opportunities.”
Much of the media interest in the first anniversary of the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina in August fixated on the negative. Sometimes, however, hurricanes have silver linings: when Hurricane Katrina demolished New Orleans’s public school system it gave the city’s educational landscape a much-needed clean slate.
According a New York Times report, New Orleans public schools were “among the most abysmal in the nation before the storm”. In the 2004 Louisiana General Exit Exams (GEE) for high school students, 96 per cent of New Orleans public school students scored… Continue reading
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