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March 28, 2008
Friday Creature
I have a fairly wide brick window sill on either size of the window in my bedroom. Sadly the window is crusted over with years of the kind of filth that can only accumulate on/from cinderblock dorm rooms, but when some love birds came to run laps along it, I think it really evoked all those episodes of Friends were Ross and Rachel and Joey and Chandler would have broken up, or in the case of the last pairing "broken up" in a roommates kinda way and were staring sadly through the rainy, rainy windows of their sadness. I think the dove here just needs a little Eric Carmen's "All By Myself" to really complete the mood.
There are some (hopefully less angsty, less contemplative) creatures on the Friday Ark!
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March 27, 2008
Cats and Dogs
I was just watching a cat food commercial and it occurred to me advertisers assume that cat people are cat people because the appeal of cats is that they are adorably pathetic as a species. So many cat commercials base the cuteness of cats on how the cat wants to be a lion or a tiger or some other big cat, but isn't. This makes the cat inherently pathetic for not being a bigger, more awesome version of its species, and delusional to boot.
Now, I hear people say that dogs are inferior to cats because the dog freely degrades itself whereas cats maintain a certain level of sophistication and poise. Cats own their people, not the other way around, etc. etc. But I say, hey, at least the dogs are honest. Or at least the advertisers are in acknowledging that these once-noble post-wolves are charmingly, and sometimes embarrassingly, dependent on us, their food-givers and head-scratchers.
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March 26, 2008
Wordless Wednesday
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March 19, 2008
Wordless Wednesday
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March 13, 2008
At Long Last...Friday Creature
I saw this little frog at the Aquarium when I took my roommate's parents on a tour of our city's finest attraction. Check out the other creatures on this Friday's ark
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March 12, 2008
Wordless Wednesday (Or Is It?)
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March 11, 2008
GPS: The Double Standard Strikes Again
Those of you who have kept up with my blog for a while know I've blogged once before about my beef with Girls Preparatory School. This morning's paper gave me a new item to be disgruntled about.
Apparently over the weekend, some students from GPS, Baylor, and Mccallie decided to have a party and drunk-dialed 911. Despite quickly hanging up, 911 got the address and sent the cops on over. Kids get busted, schools and parents are notified, and there's a bunch of teenagers having one bad week.
Whatever, it happens all the time. What really bugged me though was the difference between the statements given by McCallie's Bill Faires, director of communications, according to the Times/Free Press, and GPS's Rickie Pierce, who is assistant principal/associate head. Faires stated:
“We do think boys, teenagers, make poor decisions...And we believe it’s our responsibility as an educational institution to give them the chance, the opportunity, to learn from their mistakes rather than have their lives pretty seriously affected due to one seriously possible error.”
Mrs. Pierce however simply noted that “GPS will not tolerate the use or possession of, we term it, illegal mood-altering substances."
McCallie made a public statement about nurturing and educating its students. GPS made a public statement about punishing its students. This sums up so simply the vast difference and double standard in how the two schools manage their student bodies. McCallie tends towards a “boys will be boys” attitude, whereas GPS tends towards far less leeway. It seems so damn antiquated how different the two attitudes towards adolescent mischief, attitudes and character are. So close to the idea that men should follow their impulses and women should either be above or be prevented from doing the same (as in the sexual promiscuity double standard in which men are heroes and women are sluts).
I don’t in anyway think that any of the students involved in the incident should go unpunished—it was a stupid situation to get involved in. However, I do wish there were more equality in the policies of two institutions which, at least historically, have a measure of partnership and have functioned, at least socially, as counterparts.
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March 05, 2008
Wordless Train
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