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Where were you when you heard that John Lennon had been killed?
(For me, it was the next morning. I can’t remember if I heard it first on a Good Morning America kind of show or not, but I remember that my father drove me to school that morning for some reason, and that the news was on the radio. At the time, I honestly didn’t know anything at all about the Beatles.)
It’s Costume Season! I saw this creative one on Facebook this morning:
Got any plans to do the costume thing this Halloween? And if so, what’s the costume? If not, what’s the best costume you’ve ever seen?
Hey everybody! Yes, I’m still alive. Yes, I’m still in a blogging slow-down due to work on two books at the same time. Keep checking in, though! I do have content coming, eventually.
Anyway, I have a point-counterpoint thing today. Point: A couple that has taken their adoration of the Victorian era to really high levels..
Counterpoint: Screw those idiots. (Second article is a tad foul-mouthed.)
I’m of mixed mind on this sort of thing. I honestly tend to default to “live and let live” on stuff like this, but on the other hand, I always have a hard time when people start evangelizing in favor of their time-period of choice, the point on the clock beyond which they think everything started trending downhill. There’s a fine line between admiring certain stylistic things about an earlier time, and fetishizing it to the point of cherry picking the stuff we liked.
But then, my mixed reaction to things like this might just be simply because my preferred time period is four hundred years in the future, so there’s that.
Thoughts?
So a coworker showed me a photo he took of a bumper sticker he saw on another vehicle. The sticker read: “My autistic student ignored your Honor student.” Neither of us could figure out what the heck that means.
Anybody got any idea what that sticker is saying? Is it something good about autistic students, something bad about Honor students, neutral on either, what?
