Comic for Friday, May 9th, 2008

Posted: 7:20 am, Friday, May 9th

Yeah, so we're going to be trying something just a tad different for a little bit. Haven't figured out how long yet, or how this is going to work, but it ought to be quasi-interesting. In a rare instance of this particular art imitating life, the part of Ron is being played by 2.0 today. She's madly packing right now for a trip out to LA 'til next Wednesday, giving me free run of the place. The weather looks like crap today, so I'll be writing, drawing and shooting hookers most of the day, and then of course eating hot dogs and watching the Lord of the Rings like I always do when she leaves town. I am one wild and crazy guy! (She's not going because of the death of her girlfriend's father, I maybe should mention.) Really though, Pommes Frites and Harry and the Potters are my actual plans.

What else, what else. Nothing, really. My secret-ish news from last week was that I thought we'd found a new place for World HQ, but as it turns out, our lease is not up at the end of this month, but the end of *next* month. So at least I paid $60 for our credit checks for... yes, for no reason at all. Feeling SMRT! In the end it may not be a bad call - the place was huge and not very expensive by ridiculous NYC standards, but it wasn't too close to a subway, and it looked like groceries would be hard to come by. I'm looking at another place today for no real reason. I've also ended my time in the woods, more or less, on the employment front. Unless someone comes along with an offer of eight million a year for being in a leftist think tank, I'm going to be doing some Stand and Deliver action in these parts - I got into the NYC Teaching Fellows as an English teacher. I plan on having my students read Bob Dylan lyrics sheets and having Coolio rap about it. Actually, I'm kind of excited about all this. I guess we'll find out if I'm actually tough in the slightest (answer: no).

Aa-a-a-a-a-a-and that's all I've got. 2.0's on her way to the plane station; I'm going to go shoot some hookers and then take a run in the rain, it appears.

bullfrog

Miyaa -- Friday, May 9 2008, 08:57 am

I thought Stand and Deliver had to do with Math teachers?

A lot of my family members are elementary and high school teachers, and I hear nothing but horror stories about bad students, fellow teachers and administrators who'd make Dilbert's boss look like a saint by comparison. I don't think I want to deal with that.

Um. Fuck!

http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/2009

Wasn't it a principal? I can't actually remember. Blackboard Jungle, would that have been more apt?

Lean on Me was the one with the principal.

South Park had a great parody of Stand and Deliver a few weeks ago with Cartman as the Edward James Olmos character. "How do I reach these keeeds?"

Was Michelle Pfiefer a math teacher in hers?

Congrats!

I like how when Li'l Sis said "Boobs" her breast gave a little ding! when she said that.

Lean on Me with Morgan Freedman as the Principal (I think). God would make an interesting principal, methinks.

I remember my 7th grade English teacher, she was crazy about two things: diagramming sentences and roller skating. And every once in a while, she'd teach while wearing roller skates. She skate so fast, she looked like the Olympic Torch running away from Free Tibet protestors.

My seventh-grade English teacher liked to overly Frenchify words. I lost the eighth-grade spelling bee because she really messed with the pronunciation of 'entourage'.

And, man, does this ever look tasty on a cold and wet New York day:

http://smittenkitchen.com/2008/05/marthas-macaroni-and-cheese/

Congrats on the gig ... you're taking it, right? Also, have you ever been to a thugged-out high school before? I have some pointers if you need them. Don't be too shocked the first time says "Fuck you, motherfuckin' Mr. Conway-ass bitch."

Congrats on the teaching gig. My only pointers are to be yourself and grow a thick skin. Kids can see through fake so fast. And, yeah, they'll come up with some creative uses of language which is where the thick skin comes in.

Thanks, all. (I did in fact take it, Pat.) I'm doing my best to steel up for this ahead of time, but I figure there will still be quite the shock when I first get to whatever school I'll be at. I'm hoping to raise an army of angry inner city socialists to be the vanguard of the massive redistribution of wealth in this country!

Bang the drum slowly...

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/05/09/edmonds.released.ap/index.html

That's some Mac and Cheese. May have to try it one day when I have free reign of the kitchen.

Somewhere, 15 is crying.

So like, I have to drive a minivan tomorrow, which is funny because I haven't driven in a year at least. Be glad you're all on the right coast.