There's more of this, but I'll post it later.

“Are we on? We’re on right? 9:5ish? Yeah? // Girl: No, we start at 9:45. // We start at 9:40 and end at… 9:50. Sound good? What’s it… the song from the Wizard of Oz? We get up at ten and get… // Guy: That was a song in the Wizard of Oz? // Yeah, the… *hums*// Girl: You know if you listen to that in reverse and smoke weed… // Yeah, that and Dark Side of the Moon and Wizard of Oz… At least that’s what they told me. I don’t… really remember much from the 60’s. The 60’s they told me were really fun. The Purple Cactus Men tell me every once in a while. But, yeah ‘We get up at noon and start to work at one. Take an hour for lunch and then at two we’re done. Jolly good fun! Ah ha ha, Oh ho ho…’ Now, I mean, see, that’s the deal. When you were a kid of the 60’s. Pre-VHS, Pre-computers, pre-youtube. They showed the Wizard of Oz once a year on television. Of course, we had channels, 2, 11, and 13. And they showed it once, so what you did is you memorized a section. Cause you couldn’t like watch it anytime, so you’d sit there and memorize a part. So you’d be like ‘Okay, I’m gonna get this part.’ And then we’d all get together the next day at school and have the different parts. You know, like the apple trees – ‘Hey, how would you like it if someone came along and picked something off of you?’ You know, or ‘What makes a flag on the mast to wave? Courage!’ You know, so you pick up all this stuff. The songs. I can do the entire Wizard of Oz. I could have it showing up here with the sound down and do all of it for you. The Wizard of Oz, Williamsburg: Story of a Patriot, and Cool Hand Luke. ‘What we have here is a failure to communicate…’”

“And then, the, ugh, book reviews. I’ve had some people come up and ask me ‘Well, whaddaya want?’ Well, basically what I want you to do is, kind of… review the book. I really want you to get into what you’re going to have to do when you go off to the next levels. Whatever program you get into, you’re gonna have to start to do these things of analyzing these books. Read the book, kay? Get into it. Read it. And in no more than 800 words. Now I know for some of you it’s like ‘800 WORDS! OMG!’ Man, that’s nothing. Okay? It’s really more difficult to keep it under the limit than it is to drone on and on and on. What you want to do is kind of tackle these things. When you do book review’s, it’s not like the old elementary school thing of: ‘I read the Cat and the Hat by Dr. Seuss. It was a good book. I really liked reading this book.’ You know? What you want to get into is ‘That cat was so cool. I mean, the cat was so cool because he was able to bring in all these types of Supernatural forces with Thing One and Thing Two.’ You know, that’s what you wanna do. What you don’t want to do is ‘Life sucked for Ishmael Beah and his friends in Sierra Leone. There was killing, there was fighting, there was…’ No. Give examples, and stuff, gang. There is not a right answer. Don’t try to get online and find somebody elses review and say ‘Oh, yeah, that…’ Just think it through. I’m looking for effort, for how well you take that information and put it into a review. Now, again, I’ve had folks ask ‘Well are we gonna like talk about the book beforehand?’ No! I’m throwing this at you, you do it, then we talk about the book. Because to me, the exercise is being able to write the review, not finding the right answer. With me on that? It’s the process, gang. This whole class is about process. You’ve noticed that there hasn’t been just one answer – except mine, cause I’m the teacher. So that one, that book review is due a week from today. That’s one of the reasons why I’m hammering on it now. So, for a couple of you – you can actually like find the book and start reading it. Um. Yes, I said that out loud.”

“Tuesday, the 3rd of November, there is the possibility that you guys may a mental health day. What that means is that I have to be elsewhere for whatever reason. This one is actually a thing with my daughter. She can’t go on field trips unless a parent accompanies her because of her diabetes. And that ain’t happening to my daughter. As much as I like you guys and like my job, her field trip is more important right now. Thank you very much. My wife and I switch off. She did one a couple of weeks ago, so if it goes… I will not be here. And I will let you guys know well enough in advance. It’s not gonna be one of those days where you show up here and see the little pink piece of paper outside. And you have that doubled edged sword effect. Well, first it’s like ‘YEAH, HE’S NOT HERE! ALRIGHT!’ And then it’s like ‘Aw, man. I coulda slept.’ I won’t do that to you.”






--- I'm off to the Brad Paisley concert. I'll post more stuff from Anthro later. Since I don't have AMV tomorrow, I get to stay up a bit later. Seeing Zombieland and going to the Vertical Horizon show tomorrow night.

There's more of this, but I'll post it later.

“Are we on? We’re on right? 9:5ish? Yeah? // Girl: No, we start at 9:45. // We start at 9:40 and end at… 9:50. Sound good? What’s it… the song from the Wizard of Oz? We get up at ten and get… // Guy: That was a song in the Wizard of Oz? // Yeah, the… *hums*// Girl: You know if you listen to that in reverse and smoke weed… // Yeah, that and Dark Side of the Moon and Wizard of Oz… At least that’s what they told me. I don’t… really remember much from the 60’s. The 60’s they told me were really fun. The Purple Cactus Men tell me every once in a while. But, yeah ‘We get up at noon and start to work at one. Take an hour for lunch and then at two we’re done. Jolly good fun! Ah ha ha, Oh ho ho…’ Now, I mean, see, that’s the deal. When you were a kid of the 60’s. Pre-VHS, Pre-computers, pre-youtube. They showed the Wizard of Oz once a year on television. Of course, we had channels, 2, 11, and 13. And they showed it once, so what you did is you memorized a section. Cause you couldn’t like watch it anytime, so you’d sit there and memorize a part. So you’d be like ‘Okay, I’m gonna get this part.’ And then we’d all get together the next day at school and have the different parts. You know, like the apple trees – ‘Hey, how would you like it if someone came along and picked something off of you?’ You know, or ‘What makes a flag on the mast to wave? Courage!’ You know, so you pick up all this stuff. The songs. I can do the entire Wizard of Oz. I could have it showing up here with the sound down and do all of it for you. The Wizard of Oz, Williamsburg: Story of a Patriot, and Cool Hand Luke. ‘What we have here is a failure to communicate…’”

“And then, the, ugh, book reviews. I’ve had some people come up and ask me ‘Well, whaddaya want?’ Well, basically what I want you to do is, kind of… review the book. I really want you to get into what you’re going to have to do when you go off to the next levels. Whatever program you get into, you’re gonna have to start to do these things of analyzing these books. Read the book, kay? Get into it. Read it. And in no more than 800 words. Now I know for some of you it’s like ‘800 WORDS! OMG!’ Man, that’s nothing. Okay? It’s really more difficult to keep it under the limit than it is to drone on and on and on. What you want to do is kind of tackle these things. When you do book review’s, it’s not like the old elementary school thing of: ‘I read the Cat and the Hat by Dr. Seuss. It was a good book. I really liked reading this book.’ You know? What you want to get into is ‘That cat was so cool. I mean, the cat was so cool because he was able to bring in all these types of Supernatural forces with Thing One and Thing Two.’ You know, that’s what you wanna do. What you don’t want to do is ‘Life sucked for Ishmael Beah and his friends in Sierra Leone. There was killing, there was fighting, there was…’ No. Give examples, and stuff, gang. There is not a right answer. Don’t try to get online and find somebody elses review and say ‘Oh, yeah, that…’ Just think it through. I’m looking for effort, for how well you take that information and put it into a review. Now, again, I’ve had folks ask ‘Well are we gonna like talk about the book beforehand?’ No! I’m throwing this at you, you do it, then we talk about the book. Because to me, the exercise is being able to write the review, not finding the right answer. With me on that? It’s the process, gang. This whole class is about process. You’ve noticed that there hasn’t been just one answer – except mine, cause I’m the teacher. So that one, that book review is due a week from today. That’s one of the reasons why I’m hammering on it now. So, for a couple of you – you can actually like find the book and start reading it. Um. Yes, I said that out loud.”

“Tuesday, the 3rd of November, there is the possibility that you guys may a mental health day. What that means is that I have to be elsewhere for whatever reason. This one is actually a thing with my daughter. She can’t go on field trips unless a parent accompanies her because of her diabetes. And that ain’t happening to my daughter. As much as I like you guys and like my job, her field trip is more important right now. Thank you very much. My wife and I switch off. She did one a couple of weeks ago, so if it goes… I will not be here. And I will let you guys know well enough in advance. It’s not gonna be one of those days where you show up here and see the little pink piece of paper outside. And you have that doubled edged sword effect. Well, first it’s like ‘YEAH, HE’S NOT HERE! ALRIGHT!’ And then it’s like ‘Aw, man. I coulda slept.’ I won’t do that to you.”






--- I'm off to the Brad Paisley concert. I'll post more stuff from Anthro later. Since I don't have AMV tomorrow, I get to stay up a bit later. Seeing Zombieland and going to the Vertical Horizon show tomorrow night.