February 2012
22 posts
Reasons
Reason Numero Uno That Makes Me Want To Be A High School Basketball Coach: So I can make students run suicides and then, with a voice that holds within it both intense anger and beneath that, a sea of tough love, bark “Again.”
Reason Numero Uno That Makes Me Want To Be A College Professor: So that when a student writes a great essay, I can take them aside and say to them,...
woah
I just read in an article that a Texas rapper got life in prison for distributing a fraction of a kilo of crack cocaine. That’s messed up. It’s a bad thing to do, and crack is an awful drug, but the punishment doesn’t fit the crime at all. There’s no violence or even stealing involved and the state took his whole life’s freedom.
You Should Know That
The reification of post-capitalist hegemony is virtually coextensive with the systemization of power/knowledge.
http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/toys/randomsentence/write-sentence.htm
haha
One Always Fails in Speaking of What One Loves
“Any sensation, if we want to respect its vivacity and its acuity, leads to aphasia.”
-Roland Barthes
Peninsula
“1530s, from L. pæninsula, lit. “almost an island,” from pæne “almost” + insula “island.” Earlier translated as demie island.” -Online Etymology Dictionary.
Also easy to see from one of the two french words for peninsula: presqu’île. The other french word for this is péninsule (f.). I love when I find out that what I took to be just a word is...
I don't speak Spanish
theybuildbuildings:
Not now not ever
pero sí, hablas español
