tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32281953.post115504897662136111..comments2023-05-17T09:55:59.040-05:00Comments on The Whining Schoolboy - <i>tales from a mostly-boring public high school teacher.</i>: The cardinals have convened...School Master Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08698932512420895256noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32281953.post-1155244335508539772006-08-10T16:12:00.000-05:002006-08-10T16:12:00.000-05:00Of course, the ultimate irony with my hip-hop blog...Of course, the ultimate irony with my hip-hop blog name is that I haven't a clue about what Master P either looks or sounds like - never heard one note of his music, as far as I know. And at this point I'm afraid to check it out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32281953.post-1155180214465341502006-08-09T22:23:00.000-05:002006-08-09T22:23:00.000-05:00Thanks Marie,Actually, I'm surprised Brave New Wo...Thanks Marie,<BR/><BR/>Actually, I'm surprised <I> Brave New World </I>, especially, is still taught (I haven't read it, but do now own a copy now)but I've been told it is more relevant to the 21st C. than <I> 1984 </I>. Maybe your child can take solace in that.<BR/><BR/>I'm sometimes staggered by the number of well-established books I still haven't read.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32281953.post-1155174705271513302006-08-09T20:51:00.000-05:002006-08-09T20:51:00.000-05:00I so wish that my teenage children's teachers had ...I so wish that my teenage children's teachers had a blog like yours...I'd tell 'em to just watch 'Les Mis' the movie and read the first 50 pages. Instead, they are both downstairs cramming the last 50 pages of 'Brave New World' and 'Catch-22' for their AP English classes. Poor them :-)<BR/>BTW--the Big Armed Woman sent me.Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13368844217331366221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32281953.post-1155157097033489852006-08-09T15:58:00.000-05:002006-08-09T15:58:00.000-05:00You know, Jimmy, once again you're right there for...You know, Jimmy, once again you're right there for me. I'm tearing up.<BR/><BR/>And it's really manly if you owned cast recordings all the way back to college. But then, we're not surprised, are we (about the manliness thing, that is)?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32281953.post-1155156096307750972006-08-09T15:41:00.000-05:002006-08-09T15:41:00.000-05:00I'm so honored to be the very first commenter!I wr...I'm so honored to be the very first commenter!<BR/><BR/>I wrote a lengthy discourse in college on the "Maturation of Huck Finn" (had to check after all these years to make sure that "maturation" is a word - got an oxford dictionary I can borrow) that lifted it's major point straight from the opening monologue on track 18 of the "Big River" original cast recording.<BR/><BR/>Got an A, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com