ccprof.bsky.social
Teacher, dad, union thug, poet. I teach writing and philosophy at Henry Ford College in Dearborn.
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Sometimes a show is so bad at production; so derisive of its audience; and so ridiculous that it even defies campy, yet it still garners fans who like it out of spite, ideology, or a thirst for meaningless drama. Trump is the Toddlers and Tiaras of presidential administrations.
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I'm revising poems for a chapbook while avoiding the 40 papers to grade while seeing videos about wars pop up while trying to think through the robloxing of my 15yo in the next room while silencing calls from collectors. At some point, my belief that I know words dwindles.
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The Onion has sent the following letter to all 535 members of Congress. This special edition will be in their physical mailboxes as they return from recess tomorrow.
We hope it inspires them to continue to cower as our essential liberties are systematically dismantled.
theonion.com/letter-to-co...
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I'm in Redford, but now I know there is likely a cool farmer's market with dandy vanilla cold brews less than 10 miles away. So thanks for that.
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I'm a pacifist and am adamantly opposed to judging kids based on their faces and ways of speaking, but my god, I want to smack that smug little smirk right back to Ohio whenever I see this twerp speak.
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You can mock, but I am certain the professors in the History Dept at Harvard would tell you that when an event is "mindboggingly" HISTORIC, it is, like really, really bigly important in ways that most people won't understand. All the best scholars say so.
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I'm not sure that drag queens are even in the same universe--but it's hard to demonstrate in one graphic how far away the moral panic about drag queens is from the verifiable social harm of the other groups.
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I have a similar experience. Still, I can see one of our VPs coming back from a conference with this brand new idea to shake up our entire campus and then committing millions of dollars by persuading other cabinet members that we cannot be left behind. VPs are the perfect mark for this sales pitch.
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1sr gen students often need to be shown where all the secret locks to the secret doors are. And they are especially grateful to have honest talks about real life on campus.
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In support courses for my 1st semester writing classes at my community college, I take students on my own, specialized tour of campus—resources, soft spaces, instructor offices, identity support groups, how to find friends. They are often amazed to find out our campus has so much to offer them.
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I compose on the computer because my handwriting sucks and because poems don't look like poems without crisp lines. Later revisions are done in new files. Random lines while driving get written on receipts, but these I always lose.
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I would be honored to be included on this list if you still have space. Thank you for compiling it.
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Perhaps it's not ironic that the desire for civility, passivity and inoffensiveness is coming, what 10 years or so?, after the creation of administrative disruptors, change agents and trailblazers. It's ok to upset the apple cart if you're not an apple, but man, rebellious apples need to be sauced.
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We do offer a physical zine! And right now we are able to mail worldwide at no cost — just the $2.50 for the zine itself.
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I think all serious writers—except for the mutant writers—go in cycles of heavy writing, occasional writing, and no writing depending on what’s happening in life. During the last four weeks of the semester, I couldn’t recognize a poetic thought even if Emily Dickinson walked up and recited for me.
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This was probably the first song in my life about which I thought,”Wait a minute. This is about sex!???!” I remember distinctly being on a beach between freshmen and sophomore years and gazing around at bodies while hearing the song on a boom box. That was a…moment.
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Same here. Kids, my wife's garden, the dogs, domestic anxiety are my stock-in-trade.
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Really beautiful ending. I love poems that can make significant those things we think are trivial. And I love poems about daughters. So, you hit on two things in my quirky poetic affinity list.
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So, to be clear, if officers have a reasonable belief that, say, someone has stolen classified documents from the White House, started an insurrection, or has refused a court order, they can just enter that person's home, arrest them, send them to a gulag without any judicial oversight?