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The Joys of Being an English Teacher

It's Monday, and I took a personal day to correct this pile of high school English papers. You can tell I'm procrastinating because I'm blogging. The pile is not quite as tall as a pen standing on end, but taller than my coffee mug. There are many great things about being a teacher. Taking 12 hours on a personal day to correct papers is not one of them.

The Mall of America: Bigger? Better? Best?

  I realize that I’ve entered this place with the eye of a stranger in a strange land. An American expatriate who has lived in a developing nations for over ten years and who is coming from a lands with power outages, lack of medical care and extreme poverty, my perception of this mall is quite different to those who have made a visit to this place part of their summer vacation.

(images by shamash)

The Retrosexual Code

"A Retrosexual man can chop down a tree and make it land where he wants. Wherever it lands is where he wanted it to land."

- from Grau Magus in his anti-metrosexual manifesto, The Retrosexual Code

Want a good laugh? Want a real man? Read on, dear readers. Read on.

(image via Laura Smith Art)