Jim Grayson

Thirty-seven years? Try not to tell any terrible lies on your way through the parking lot!

I cannot seem to get away from Frankenstein this month.

I'm a teacher. In addition to my education degrees, I have a state license. Without my state license, I would not be a teacher; I'd just be overqualified for most other people's jobs.

Interviewer: Can you explain these gaps in your resumé? Teacher: Well, it's a living document. I look forward to collaborating in PLCs to fill in those spaces.

IYKYK

If you feel the need to follow up a post with "Yes, I know this is AI," as though you're acknowledging that AI is a bad thing (which it is, and nice of you to catch up), maybe don't make the post in the first place. This is a sub-skeet.

Related to this, I gave a recent lesson on rejecting the notion of "geniuses," and I worried that I might be tarred and feathered by a bunch of HS sophomores with G/T labels. It will be worth it, they're great kids, but it was a rough day.

Today in "Words I Never Expected To See Strung Together":

The class that is currently reading Richard III and listening to me rant about the differences between OE and EM will be reading excerpts from Maria's translation of Beowulf in the next unit, because it's the kind of course where I get to do whatever I want.

Students at the high school where I teach are circulating a petition to stop the use of generative AI by staff at all levels of the district, demanding actual human work for actual human kids. I have so much hope for the future. The kids are alright.

It turns out that "CHECK OUT THE BRAINS ON BRETT!" is in fact an anatomically accurate thing to say. Well played, Tarantino in 1994.

anyway it is actually very fun to have kids deeply interested in the world around them and the people who live in it

Seriously, people. Conspiracy theory inevitably collapses under its own weight.

Hey, easy there, hoss, I think it's safe to say the people of Kentucky haven't been properly represented in decades, and not just due to this geezer. Let's just get some perspective, is all.

Oh wow, this sorts for me and my daughter as well, for both Civil Rights Acts. And the Bay of Pigs. And the Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" album. And SPARTACUS. I need to lie down.

Reacher: Judging by the gray in your beard, I'd say you still have fond memories of MySpace. Me: Now listen, this doesn't have to-- Reacher: It's possible you even remember your ICQ handle.

JACK NICHOLSON AS THE JOKER: I don't know if it's art, but I like it!

As I launch rehearsals for a community theatre production of Frankenstein tomorrow, I can only offer, in the spirit of @midnightpals.bsky.social: 'Sup, fuckers?

Don't make me tap the sign again. *taps sign* The Sign: No instructional method is a panacea. I don't hunt werewolves, I teach high school, so stop trying to sell me silver bullets.

Okay, @mapquest.com laid down the challenge, so I had to try it. gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario/...

Stay strong, Google Maps.

I poured a glass of whiskey in honor of Tim Curry, but I just keep staring at it in antici...

Hang this in the Louvre.

Make a band bigger: Blues Travel Agency

This is the most wonderful thing I've seen today.

I love this: "My IQ is no."

I came downtown tonight to investigate the house music, um, festival in the local park from the cover of the bar across the street. There is in fact very loud, bass-driven music playing for the three people in the park, while Janis Joplin is on the bar's speakers. Gotta love the can-do attitude.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Monty Python: In my day, we had to drink out of a rolled-up newspaper

Jims of the world must stick together. (Thanks for the follow, @jimc5.bsky.social )

Dave Matthews told me to eat, drink, and be merry, though I think he might have cribbed that line from an earlier source.

Taylor Farms: All Things Are Edible Once

Actual LOL

1.. Build a giant horse. 2....

4KG GINGER!!!

There is no moral imperative to implement so-called "AI," in schools or anywhere else.

Was probably, and might well still be, a Tiresome Literature Boy. And listen, it's just rude to come at me about the craft beer.

I believe my grandmothers (however many "greats" as needed) had shotguns for these situations.

Okay, I wasn't completely sold on the pilot of STUART FAILS TO SAVE THE UNIVERSE, but Ep2 has me in absolute stitches.

FULLY HASTILY RESPONSIBILITILY ILY

Phenomenal thread🧵: (And this is a lady who knows a thing or three about epics in translation and adaptation)

We can make this happen, America.

Okay, eastern Kentucky, I've been fine a month. Do we really have to get nasty about it? www.facebook.com/share/r/1Bhn...