polytheism

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooold lady queen of martyrs

swing and a myth

i'm just not getting it. there's got to be a better way than the treading i'm doing right now. it's totally exhausting and i feel like i'm getting nowhere. ooooh, snap! that's the place he was telling tales about.

12.1.12

something to start the season off right.

and this stocking stuffer.
the beauty of some of these slogpostings is that they can be played at the same time. amazing how loud the lightning is. (i know, it's the thunder that makes the noise.)

it's all an act, pt. 2

obviously a staged video. no teacher would ever be as much as tempted to do something like this.

it's all an act

all the world's a big board game and all the students and teachers merely those little plastic circusy looking clown hats of various colors. they may have been models like for a miniature building that was eventually built. with finite timelines. not to mention the valuable meat, hide, and bone.

data indicative

yawning?, roaring?...what!?

too flogged to slog

imagined i would be in full documentation mode here, but this is exhausting. end of the third day and i can see now why the weekend is so cherished. this top piece by joseph beuys; cy twombly, below.

at least

this and always, the clip below, pretty much sum it up as far as classroom management goes. 

always

2th4a2th

complete the code.

rivers of gold

also: while taking the day off, i found this in instant play on netflix. no idea that it'd be another river of gold.

joan's picks

http://flocabulary.com/the-week-in-rap/

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/crittercam-wildcam/

http://www.oddcast.com/

http://blabberize.com/

http://archive.org/index.php

www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/

newseum.org

flintknapper

number 2 in the stoneage series. how many tools can you think of made entirely of stone?

(click flintknapper for exciting surprise)

stoneage

from the cradle to the grave; a yabba dabba doo time.

b.one

from there to here; names to follow. 

halfball and deadbox

here is information on deadbox.  once there, halfball can be typed into the search.

garden of your mind

hey, hey

it's getting harder to remember anything pre-toasties. and people say we monkee around? 

in the (swimming) hole

not quite oxy (there's no tarzan swing), but still one of the finest relaxation experiences in the past several years. i post it here now only because this image was stalled on my desktop; and the persistent daydream of plunging into relaxation. 

d-day (aka this day in history)

could you repeat that again, deary, please?

listening comprehension? i know i need work on mine. here presented for ell students.

seven

here's 7, but there's more

still super

this from last year's super moon, but it's just an excuse to throw this address out there: http://www.neilyoung.com/crazyhorsevideo.html
plus, i needed to post something this month.

ss

beware the boy

just finished a small reading unit on homelessness. i was reminded of this scene, especially when many of the kids in the class described the homeless as "lazy bums," not fully appreciating they were speaking about classmates and their families.

this particular version holds most closely to dickens' words, written more than 150 years ago.

everywhere i look around

http://www.cryptogram.com/hearts/

the final word

cuss (cuff pt. 2)

brilliant answer to "what the cuss does cuff really mean?"

culturally responsible

que lastima.

new year of thinking

fatescape by pavel maria smejkal

weird. and fascinating.