But they were necessary. I have an embarrassing number of photos of him from this one encounter, and I cherish each one. I’m thinking of making them into a calendar.

Last New Year’s Eve I went to a dinner party at a mountain house in Asheville, NC, and I met this dog. His name is Taco. I was immediately obsessed. I spent the entire evening stalking Taco and taking his picture. I believe that Taco and Gary would have much to discuss, and I would like to see them star in a buddy…

You’re doing the Lord’s work here.

What is the point of this article exactly? Hey, remember this tragedy? Yeah, those people are moving on with their lives now. This smacks of grief porn.

Wee little British accents. Every time.

Jagged Little Pill was on the list of ‘Essential Albums From Olds’ that I gave to my teenage students last year. Also included Tori’s Little Earthquakes, Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, and Erykah Badu’s Baduizm. The kids need to know.

If you work in a Broadway theatre you don’t have a choice. Between the, “Do you like stand-up comedy...Where do you get your hair done?...The white man will be the slave when we return to Israel...SHOW TIME! IT’S SHOW TIME!...Do you have a minute to help children?...” the Patagonian pan flute ensemble, the…

Holy shit dude it’s just jokes! I’m joking. Good god you take yourself awfully seriously! This is a thread about Miley Cyrus’s cartoon underwear for fucks sake. I mean seriously? This is where you take your strong stand? This discussion is important enough to merit calling an internet stranger an asshole? I hope you…

Burn it to ashes and salt the earth.

Dude, are you Miley’s mom? You are taking my distaste for her chosen press postures pretty personally. I remember being hyper sensitive about being called a child when I was in my early twenties too. Trust, you’ll get over it, and one day you will look back and say, “Damn I was a stupid kid,” or at least you will if…

So you are comparing Miley Cyrus’s posed crotch shots to an Olympic swimmer in his uniform? Am I reading that correctly? I suppose if Michael Phelps showed up in the press everyday thrusting his balls all over instagram I would be annoyed by that too. Are you over 30? I know that as I got older I realized how young 22…

Point?

She can do whatever the fuck she wants but seeing this child’s labia is getting old. I’ve seen her pubic bone more times than my own.

Everybody get off of my lawn.

This is so fucking depressing. Money. Money. Money. Money. It’s so base it’s pathetic. How embarrassing that our culture has come to this, the worship of dollar bills falling on gyrating assholes. My teenage students seek to emulate these people who are, “winning the game,” because their cars and their necklaces say…

Not so humble brag, I was in the original cast ;)

It’s a very long story. The girl had told the counselor what had occurred and the counselor called CPS. When the girl found out that CPS was coming she ran away from school with another student. As a teacher it honors me that I have students who trust me, and through them we were able to track her down and contact…

And if students are sharing the video in school? I went to the police at the beginning of the year with a different student who was being raped at night by her mother's boyfriend. That experience taught me to never go to the police again.

I teach students this age. I have them repeat this mantra again and again. “The Internet is forever. What I text is forever. Nothing disappears. EVER.” The girls are incredibly vulnerable. The boys constantly pressure them for “nudes,” and the girls often bow to that pressure. It is a disturbing phenomenon to witness,…

Okay, slow your roll there sparky. I commented too quickly. Reading is hard. I thought these people were some Real Housewives level reality plebes. I had no idea their level of influence culturally and more importantly politically. So be nice and don’t call names. I withdrew my comment and I along with you will…