I Miss Teaching Creative Writing

It's been good news from the Youth Speaks Poetry Slam preliminaries. While I was wasting away in flu virus, 4 of my former student competed for a spot in the semi-finals and they made it. For three of them, it was their first time competing in this competition. First, congrats to Mic. Turner who was in my Eng 3H class last year, for he will be making his second trip to the semi-finals. I'm glad the other first 3 slam artists finally felt composed enough to speak their truths. Congrats to Melissa, Charles, and Rickah.

Here's a pic of last year's creative writing class!




If you want to watch them, please join me this Friday night, March 27, at 7 pm at MOMA SF

SEMI-FINALS: 7PM : $6 Youth (24 & under) & $10 General :
March 27 & 28: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)-
151 Third St. San Francisco, Ca
Advance tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com

Learn more about the slam at www.youthspeaks.org

My sister graduates

Congratulations to my sister for completing the first step of her career! Now she needs to study for the board exams...

but why am I blogging about this?

Two women sitting behind my family talked as loud as the speaker and had no qualms about it. I waited patiently for the teacher to finish speaking and snapped at them. They were oblivious. Lance held of his cell phone saying "shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!" on the screen and they still didn't get it. The kids sitting to their left then to yell at each other more and one of the teachers had to tell the parents of those kids to control them. The other two remained entranced with themselves and I finally turned around, waved my finger full of Dikembe Mutumbo fury, and said all i hear are your voices in my ear with my evil teacher glare. It held them at bay for a little while... the ceremony was 2 hours... at least they were never as loud again for me to stand up and yell back.

and Sheena, if you ever read this, Did you find your diploma?

Commercial Tagline of the Night

I really had no idea it was even an IKEA commercial.

I see this young male looking in the refrigerator. Then I see a grandmotherly woman in mold and voice of Maya Angelou. She's commenting on something. Suddenly the camera pans back over to the boy with her voice still going, camera cuts back to her with a Ben Linusesque gaze, and you hear her say "I love the way you frost..."

Et tu, AIG? & more rally cam

Happy Belated Ides of March

Who would have realized another great nation feels a sense of betrayal after yesterday's news that the taxpayers are footing the bill for AIG execs getting millions of dollars in bonuses. Screw the bailout... let all these companies file for bankruptcy. Save the small businesses and the middle class!

Well, we know that won't happen...

So here's more video to keep you laughing and distracted from the economic crisis.

FLOOR CAM


SENIOR P.O.V.



IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS FOR NEXT YEAR'S THEME, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!

Oh yeah... there was an actual class competition... here are the winners... the sophomores!

Happy Pi Day!

Don't forget to celebrate Pi Day today!

Lip Sync Past and Present

Here are some interesting views... people have been asking me, so here are some
The one for this year, is the only one I've seen posted so far... i'll update it when i can find another angle

2009



2008


2007
We did "Thriller" but I haven't been able to find it yet.

2006

Student quote of the day - Friday the 13th

Today I was collecting their class request forms and one student didn't turn it in. So I said, "Aren't you concerned about your future?"
Stephennie's reply, "My future needs to be reprinted."

More Special Guests Coming to EC

Here's the latest Video Blog from Wong Fu Productions