Sobering, But, Well…

John Taylor Gatto knows a thing or two about the American school system… and, I’d argue, his points translate to all kinds of other school systems.
Here are a couple of worthwhile, angering, stirring essays:

The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher
How public education cripples
our kids, and why

Decorum

This is one thing I think we miss.
We miss, meaning we as a society long for it, we wish we still had it around. Or, at least, we think that we do. Or, at least, some os us think that we do.
Not that your ancestors and mine are all that likely to have [...]

Thule Society Club Meeting in Shangri-La Next Tuesday (To Discuss the Akashik Records)

One of the things I haven’t mentioned much here, but which I suppose might be interesting, is the a fascination I have always had with the cheesy supernatural-conspiracy literature that has always (until I moved to Korea) been widely and cheaply available to me.
I have never much been into things like those writings about [...]

Traneimation

Here’s a funny little animation based on John Coltrane’s Giant Steps. I’m not crazy about it but it is kind of neat as a one-time diversion.
(via a thread on Last.fm.)

That’s Where Beck Got Them….

Those funky string lines, that is. What’s that song by Beck with the wonderful string lines, from I think it was the Sea Change album? Oh, yeah, “Paper Tiger”. Well, anyway, the bulk of the good stuff was stolen from Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson. Maybe that’s credited somewhere.
Actually, a little judicious Googling [...]

Writing Your Own Reference Letter

I guess this is normal practice at a lot of Universities, here, or so I’ve hard from other teachers. You write your own reference letter and then email it, and it gets printed and stamped by the person who is or was your supervisor.
I suppose it’s one way to make sure you get the [...]

Robert Lowth, thou art mine enemy

Finally, the evidence against the prescriptivists that I have longed for all these years is here, in the biography of Robert Lowth (provided by Wikipedia).

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