Posted on May 29, 2014
Happy Fun Spam Times!
I get a lot of spam email. And when I say a lot, I mean, like, way more than should be legal. In the past, I’ve violently sent them to my Spam folder in a fit of impotent rage that never works, but recently I’ve taken a different tact. I’ve started replying…
Here’s a collection of some of my Happy Fun Spam Times emails. I’ll add to this post as I get more spam, so check back often. You know, if you’re in to that sort of thing.
(I killed the idea of making this into multiple posts, so I combined Part Two with this one. If you were redirected here from the other link, don’t panic. That was supposed to happen.) Read More
Posted on May 13, 2014
The Troll Who Loved Ice Cream
Trey’s school has been doing a thing where parents come up and read short stories to the class. The student picks the story. The parent reads the story. Sounds pretty simple, right? Right. Unless your child is Trey and the parent is Me.
Instead of picking a story, my child decided that we should write a story. After many days of brainstorming, he finally comes up with, “A story about a grumpy, messy Troll that always eats too much food, and a kid that’s a Scientist who brings the Troll and a beautiful Fairy together so she can take care of him and they can be a family.”
So basically, it is The Story Of Us and, while I’m deeply impressed that’s he’s already speaking in metaphor at 7 years old, I’m also slightly hurt that some part of him sees me as a grumpy, messy troll with an eating disorder. But oh well, you can’t have everything.
He came up with the story idea, then plotted most of the individual elements. At the last minute, we added a change to the end (mostly for the sake of nuking a few “chapters” and keeping the length down, since I’ve got to read this out loud to his class within a 15-20 minute window), and he did the illustrations.
And that, as they say, is that. We just finished it up just now, so it’s probably riddled with spelling, grammar and typographical errors, so shut up. Read More
Posted on April 28, 2014
Morality vs Ethics: FIGHT!
Facebook, always the great facilitator of respectful dialog between dissenting parties (in much the same way that Alexander dealt with the Gordian Knot, in that it usually devolves into trying to verbally slice each other into tiny pieces with word swords), has recently been abuzz with news about a transgender substitute teacher in my area being suspended from Lumberton ISD because of reasons involving her having a pee-pee where her hoo-hoo should be. (This is how people talk in the South. Just roll with it.) Read More
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