Posted on September 28, 2010
Carrol Thomas vs. The Media
This entry originally appeared in The Beaumont Enterprise.
Dr. Carrol A. “Butch” Thomas, Superintendent of the Beaumont Independent School District, has a bone to pick with “biased members of the media” in this week’s installment of BISD’s kinda-sorta-but-not-really-weekly newsletter, One Vision.
In this latest nugget of wisdom, Dr. Thomas blasts the media for covering negative aspects of the school district. He says, “Yes, a typical week in the news for BISD includes front page and prime time on anything negative that goes on in this district of 20,000 students and more than 3,000 employees.”
Well, we agree with him so far. A typical week in the news for BISD is usually pretty harsh. But then again, a week without a BISD scandal would be like…a…uhm…like a…er… Well, I’m sure it’d be like something that probably exists somewhere in the universe but that nobody can ever actually prove exists, even if they’d really quite like to. Like room temperature superconductors. Or unicorns. Read More
Posted on August 25, 2010
Write, Stupid! …with intelligence
As you may have noticed, Coquetting Tarradiddles is no longer running new content on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This is because I’ve decided to slightly alter the publication schedule to ‘whenever I damn well feel like it’. This is a minor change and absolutely no one should send me hate mail about it. Or, for that matter, thank-you notes. And, with that bit of business out of the way, let’s go ahead and jump right into the big bowl of verbal salad I’ve prepared for you today. This one is for all the writers out there.
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Posted on August 10, 2010
The Return of the Me
Things have been quiet here at Coquetting Tarradiddles for the past few weeks. There are reasons for this, but they’re nothing too out of the ordinary. Let’s just say that things have been both Busy and Interesting, which is not always an altogether pleasant combination of activities. Some unfortunate and unavoidable legal issues arose with Brittany’s ex that needed to be dealt with, in addition to car trouble, work busyness and all sorts of other fun and mundane life stuff.
The legal issues came about, once again, due to problems with Trey’s dad and his summer visitation (along with unpaid child support), but they have been put behind us once more. For now, at any rate. This time mediation failed and actual court proceedings developed, wherein Brittany was forced to defend herself against her ex’s…shall we say, creative version of the truth. Fortunately, our attorney was easily able to quash each fabrication by quick and decisive blows with the blunt club of Fact, and everything worked out fine. Still, it was interesting to see just how far into fiction things can go when emotions run high, but complex and inconsistent, nonsensical testimony isn’t much of a threat against demonstrable fact along with the clear and simple truth. Read More
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