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I don’t even want to write a review of “Top Gun: Maverick” honestly, I’ve seen 1,500+ movies and I’ve never finished one that left me more depressed about the future of this country. I just want to stop thinking about it
By popular demand:
The White House just shared a video using footage from “Top Gun: Maverick” right before real footage of US bombs hitting Iran. I am sorry to announce that I have been 100% vindicated in my views on this movie.
I was on the radio singing a couple songs about my feelings and talking about songwriting and feelings and you can listen to it here !
I love asking friends, without context, "what are you really into this week?" I'll go first. this week I'm really into mouthwash and sudoku. Last week I was into peaches.
we used to be a society on here!! reblog, don't like! I want to hear what you're into!!! I'm literally looking into the nyt game Pips!!!
compiling my favourite responses
Plans for New Years Eve?
yes (party; date; etc)
yes (work; volunteering; etc)
yes (being on Tumblr or other social media)
yes (gaming; reading; etc)
no (sitting staring at a blank wall with a glass of tepid tap water)
punk bars are so important.
what kind of music was predominantly played at your house as child?
None 😔
Hip-Hop
Rock
Pop
Country
Oldies
Top 40
Jazz
Rap
R&B
A healthy mix of genres
You forgot one (tag)
It is my birthday! Just checking in to say it has been the best year of my entire life.
casting a spell circle of citronella candles to keep away the mosquitos while I smoke weed on my porch and think about how much better my life is without my ex this is just like matchsies
A landscape commission for @dreadfutures plus a little Lavellan. This was insanely challenging to make and ended up taking months to make; many hard but valuable lessons learned in the way. Endless thanks to Blue's patience and trust in this 🙌
I don't usually add the process video into the art post itself but here it goes below the cut
Art by Aaron Hong
I used to be mad about "whole language" reading approaches in theory but now I work with school-age kids and I am mad about it in practice.
the word is "commute"
kid: complete?
me: do you see a P in that word?
kid: uh.... compare?
me: where are you getting a P??? sound it out.
kid: com... complete?
me: is that a P after the M? sound it out.
kid: *stares blankly*
me: [oh right, nobody taught them how to do this. fucking hell...] okay, we'll do this together [like it's kindergarden even though you're thirteen years old...]. what sound does C make?
I am not a reading teacher or a dyslexia specialist but I'm having to do remedial phonics instruction for middle schoolers because nobody ever taught them how SO THEY CAN'T FUCKING READ
I cannot overstate how much these kids are just making wild guesses when I ask them to read something. Because that's what they were taught to do. If you don't know a word, use context clues and make a guess at what you think the word might be.
Which is a fucking insane approach to reading, by the way, and I could rant about this forever because this makes absolutely no sense and I cannot figure out how the entire educational field was duped into thinking that this makes a lick of sense.
But I also want to emphasize that even kids who are decent readers have this problem. I work with some kids who straight-up can't read, but even my kids who absolutely can read will just guess wildly at an unfamiliar word. Those kids will go back and sound it out if I force them to, because they can read, so they have the necessary decoding skills. But they have to be pushed to do it and reminded several times to quit fucking guessing and read the actual letters on the page, Jason.
For example. I have a kid who is actually a pretty strong reader - probably one of my best.
The word was "disagreement."
He made a couple of guesses - some nonsensical, but after pushing him to sound out the word, he got closer. He kept saying "dis-age-ment" and "dis-argue-ment."
And I said okay, let's break this word down. Is there anything in here you recognize?
"The beginning is 'dis' and the end is 'ment' like argument, but I don't know the middle."
Great! Let's pull the middle out. I wrote the word "agree" on the page. Do you know this word?
"Age? Argue?"
SOUND. IT. OUT.
"Ag... agriculture?"
Jason the love of god. I drew a line in the middle. Ag/ree. Sound out each part.
"I don't know."
JASON. I wrote them out on opposite sides of the paper. Ag...........ree. What sound does ag make?
"Ag?"
YES GREAT FANTASTIC. Now come all the way over here. Ree. Sound it out.
"Are?"
JASON. R. E. E.
"Rey? Ree?"
Yes, thank you, it's Ree. Put it together.
"Ag...ree? Oh! It's disagreement!"
YES. EXCELLENT. THANK YOU. WHY WAS THIS SO HARD?
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have
#however the situation is better in liberal states that invest substantially more money into education than conservative states
As much as I wish that was the case, "Jason" and all of his classmates are students in a strongly blue state with some of the highest educational spending per student in the country.
I'm not saying the situation is better in red states - I've seen what my friends who are teaching in Texas are dealing with and the situation is dire. I'm just saying it's less of a red/blue or funding issue than you might imagine.
lifeblogging and a quick record review -
been busy with lots of travel and new friends. wrote a whole EP's worth of songs, people at open mics are cool and nice and now I'm gonna jam with my new friends tomorrow and maybe make something of that. Trying to start seeds in my basement apartment but grow lights are expensive. I think I will try to find one on facebook marketplace but in the meantime I got one of those desk lamps that's supposed to mimic the sun to be better for your eyes or whatever and at it's brightest setting it's pretty comparable to the LEDs the guy in the youtube videos I watched said could work for starting seeds indoors so we'll try that for now. Saw the artist Kandle play a show on Wednesday and that was really good. Bought the record and I do recommend it for anyone who wants to listen to kinda bluesy/gothy Canadian indie pop. ghosting the salsa dancer but I have a date with a girl I met at an open mic next week I think we're gonna go to a record store.
ok cool, that's me. what's new with you?
going on a date tomorrow with the salsa dancer I pulled by having perfect tits 😌
Peter Falk / Columbo
Art by Peter Falk
bought a remastered dvd box set of Star Trek TOS at the tiny book store next to the movie theatre and there's a twin peaks dvd box set ad first thing.
Also look how cute they are
