By Laurain Books and Reading, Entertainment and Social Media, Politics, Society and Community, TV2 CommentsTags: catholic church, huck finn, Mark Twain, satire, stephen colbert, the colbert report
I’m always on the lookout for good, biting satire, but never so much as when I’m about to teach The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Students have a hard time with the text as it is, no less when I ask them to tell me why and how Twain is so damn funny. It’s as if [...]
Apparently, Not Even Heavy Sedation Can Con Me Out of My Bossypants
By Laurain Health8 CommentsTags: anesthesia, humor, lumpectomy, sarcasm, sedatives, surgery
And I’m not referring to Tina Fey’s hilarious memoir, Bossypants, though I’m certain no amount of sedation would convince me to unhand that, either. No, what I’m referring to is my [frequent] need to be the boss. Of everyone. Thursday, I went in an ordinary lumpectomy patient and left a legend. But not in a [...]
I’m the sh*t! Wait…what’s that? Oh. It appears I’m IT. Close, though.
By Laurain Blogging, Entertainment and Social Media18 CommentsTags: blogging games, just jennifer
Do you like how I put that asterisk in the word, “shit” up there? Like no one knows what the word’s supposed to be. Like people are thinking to themselves, Hmm. I am totally baffled by that asterisk in that word. WHAT COULD IT MEAN? For some reason, people find it less offensive when there’s [...]
My God Doesn’t Hate
By Laurain Lifestyle, Society and Community23 CommentsTags: american family association, God, hate, intolerance, one million moms, religious right
I’m not an overly religious person even though I grew up attending my family’s Episcopal church dutifully every Sunday. For those of you unfamiliar with the Episcopal sect of the Christian faith, it’s basically Diet Catholic. We’re into the appropriate amounts of damnation and you’re-going-to-hell, except we allow ourselves a slip here and there. The [...]
My Week According to Pinterest
By Laurain Random Nonsense10 CommentsTags: crabby, grouchy, grumpy, pinterest
I’ve had a blechy week. And yes, blechy is now a word. Feel free to launch it into urban dictionary stardom. Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday: Thursday: Friday: Saturday: Sunday: Ugh, gah. You know what? I’m a big poopy head. The end. Want to see the original source of each image? Visit this board on Pinterest.
My Childhood was Filled with Boozers and Losers, but I Survived
By Topherin Entertainment and Social Media, Music8 CommentsTags: Beastie Boys, Breakfast Club, Korn, Licensed to Ill, music, Nirvana, Usual Suspects
Here, my husband revisits some of the stuff he thought was awesome as a kid. Some of it was, and some of it…well…just read. ******************** The other day, I was having a conversation about movies and the fact that a friend of mine had never seen The Breakfast Club. It was my understanding that it [...]
Dear 18-year-old you, which is to say, me, from older you, who is, again, me.
By Laurain Blogging, Entertainment and Social Media, Guest Posts2 CommentsTags: chosen chaos, guest post, if i could turn back time
When Jamie at Chosen Chaos asked me to guest post in her meme, “If I could turn back time,” I was ecstatic. The prompt was to deliver some advice to your eighteen-year-old self now that you’re, you know, old and wise and know what you’re doing (ha!). Please, head on over to Jamie’s place and [...]
Bahahaha! OMG. *sigh*
By Laurain Random Nonsense8 CommentsTags: brain dead teenagers, humor, sarcasm, satire, the onion
“Are you for real killing me right now?” Brain-Dead Teen, Only Capable Of Rolling Eyes And Texting, To Be Euthanized
A Plea from One Parent to Another
By Laurain School and Career, Society and Community17 CommentsTags: parent responsibility, parents, personal responsibility, student failure, student progress, teacher, teacher responsibility
This is a plea from one parent (me) to another (everyone else). That I am a teacher certainly weighs heavily on my perspective, but at the end of the day, I like to think I’d make this same plea were I not. It’s the end of the semester in high school. To say it’s tense [...]
We don’t have to like the man. But, sheesh, we should at least respect him.
By Laurain Politics, Society and Community14 CommentsTags: barack obama, state of the union
I’m disgusted. I’m confused. I’m not sure whether we’re better off or worse than we’ve been in years past. Our society sucks. I watched the State of the Union address last night, which, admittedly, is the only true civic-minded thing I’ve done aside from picketing the Capitol in Lansing last spring and writing my representatives [...]
