The Featured Post Blog

A collection of the featured posts as they appeared on mo'time

by: coopergreen

I would like to try this again.

You know those times when you're having half a grapefruit and you love the juice but it's a nuisance digging out the fruity parts because your spoon keeps crashing into those little divider things and after a while, after many many grapefruit halves and far too many spoon/divider collisions, and you have aged considerably in the interim, you start thinking this is just too damn big a nuisance I think I'll just buy the Minute Maid and drink this stuff from a bottle? Remember those times?

Well, a grapefruit is a euphemism for blogging. Very deep, let me repeat that. A grapefruit is a euphemism for blogging (cleansing breath ... two more ... one more ... and relax).

Blogging: great juice, too many dividers. The truth sets us free. But what if a person ...
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posted by: howard at 15:58 | link | comments (5) |

by: EmmaPele

the violin
This is how utopian Emma's neighborhood is.  After a long day of work, struggling with non-English speaking students, Emma comes home to find that the power has cascaded off, probably because everyone has turned on their air conditioners in this first really hot day of summer.  This is a good thing.  There is nothing electrically powered, including computers and televisions and stoves, that Emma really feels like dealing with anyway.  She lounges on her blue tie-dyed futon on the sun porch, reading Will Self's The Book of Dave, studying her daughter's latest work of art pinned to a board out here, talking to her son about the brilliance of The Sopranos and other media events,  eating a sandwich, watching the squirrels, the cardinals, the wasps, the tall trees on the perimeter of her property, which is not so far away, 25 feet maybe?  Suddenly, she hears music.
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posted by: howard at 10:09 | link | comments |

by: onelastkiss

politics *arrgghhh*

it's not funny anymore.

during campaign days, political candidates boast of how they want to make the country beautiful and corruption-free and all other nonsensical blahs. why say nonsensical, you might ask. this is because the country has already suffered from repetitive and in-your-face lies from politicians. people are already tired of dreaming to have better leaders as they are of hoping for a better tomorrow.

but what i hate most in the elections are the paraphernalia used by the politicians. what we have is a dirty election period, literally. posters, streamers, tarpaulines, flyers, banners, etc. are being placed on billboards, walls, posts, railings, bridges, trees, benches, fences, and wherever that can be seen with the naked eye. now, i'm not saying that these are wrong. rules say that as long as the places are of public property, they can be piled with these materials. yes, i can deal with seeing all the vote-for-me-i-am-better-than-my-rival faces. but only during the campaign period. but hey! the campaign days are over.
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posted by: howard at 19:34 | link | comments |

by: willothwisp

I got up at 6 a.m. after a bad night of sleep.

I read my email.  My mother is selling my childhood home and purchasing a new home with my sister, brother in law, niece and nephew. More on this later.

I have students demanding grades before the end of of classes or even finals week.  Da noive!

I have students begging for A's (which really ticks me off - if you did not write at A level, you're not going to get an A!!).

I have a life y'know, and 80 students.  Be patient already!!

BUT
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posted by: howard at 09:44 | link | comments (2) |