Something made me laugh today...

During a discussion on the A.V. Club about David Cross (the world's first analrapist) dying on the inside for appearing in Alvin and the Chipmunks, the following exchange occurred:

lexicondevil: last year I had 11th grade students who were mostly born in the 90's. Imagine growing up in a world with no Soviet Union. Whenever they found out how old I was (35), they'd say things like "wow, my mom's younger than you."

Alex II: The Alexing: You should sleep with their mothers.


Am I a bad man for finding this absolutely hilarious?

No one who speaks German could possibly be evil!

I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel - all the portfolios are completed, the ritual project is done (even if it is twice as long as planned/necessary), and I'm just waiting on abuot 10 more papers from my UD students.

Unfortunately, I had to get an extension on my German film paper, since I've pretty much hid a brick wall when it comes to Werner Herzog. Like his films, he exists just to make everything more complicated. Here's his response to a fiarly innocuous interview question, just to give you a sense of what I'm dealing with:

Q: Before we start, are there any philosophical insights you'd like to give your readers?

A: I can answer your question only by quoting hotel mogul Conrad Hilton, who was once asked what he would like to pass on to prosperity. 'Whenever you take a shower, always make sure the curtain is inside the tub,' he said. So I sit here and recommend to people the same. Never ever forget the shower curtain.

(from Paul Cronin's Herzog on Herzog, 2002)

All I want for Christmas...

"...goes great with anything from Ikea"

Permafrost - it's nature's mittens!

It was 1 degree outside when I left for school this morning. That's just not right.

It's the final week of the semester, so I'll be updating frequently on my progress:

• Student portfolios are all ready to be submitted (with 2 exceptions who didn't come to class on Tuesday)


• I'm having terrible writer's block, and I haven't been able to get through my second book review for IJOCA. It was due last weekend, but it'll be accepted if I can get in in by the end of the work week.


• I have most of the source material for my Ritual Theory final project (designing a "Ritual and Media Theory" syllabus and course plan); since I officially don't care about this class, I'm not planning on spending more than a couple hours on it.


• I still have my final paper for German Film due on Tuesday. The primary challenge here is to connect all of my disparate notes on Mabuse, Herzog, and the Gaze into a coherent argument.


• All of my CMM 110 students are handing in their final presentations tonight, so that'll be out of the way.


• I need to come back to BG Monday to evaluate portfolios. If I'm lucky, I'll get a stack that's all obviously passing, and it won't take long to complete. If I'm unlucky, then I'll be fairly upset, and maybe cry.

They wouldn't listen to me, like when I said, "Stop hitting me with my own shoe!"

There's sort of this clearcut inverse correlation between the amount of work I need to finish and the amount of time I waste farting around online (and the number of posts made to this blog). However, this morning, I have indeed struck gold:

Rob Liefeld's 40 Crimes Against Humanity

...and they did all of this with a crappy Bomb Squad supporting them!

We're on the way to victory,
And when the Bombers get that ball,
They'll run right through the other team
And hit 'em hard until they fall.
We're on the way to win that game,
And then we'll let our banners fly;
For we are the unexcelled
Bombers of Xavier High!

PS- the wife will kill me if I don't mention that, while it wasn't the Div I championship, two teams from the MAC also managed to win big (including a truly awesome comeback against Youngstown Mooney)