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Photo booth fun @fontbonnedm last night!!! @tylerhilton and @katevoegele were amazing. #stlphotobooth #stl #photobooth #onetreehill #fontbonne #flippinggoodtimes https://www.instagram.com/p/BrIQbW4jDXg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1t28ugkgkuu91

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Ta.. Daah.. I'm back again #fontbonne #alexfolla #workshop #italianbottega #fineart #stlouis (presso Fontbonne University - Saint Louis)

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Apartment 1303: #WhatToWatchWednesday

A few months ago, I got Netflix. Well my dad lets me use his account. I love movies and horror is my favorite genre; has been for twelve years. No joke, I think I have watched every single horror movie Netflix has to offer. Since I am patiently waiting for season three of American Horror Story to be released, I put on a random movie for background noise while I was doing some writing. Apartment 1301 is what I thought to be some low-budget, B-rated horror, meaning it would be more funny than scary. It caught my attention, though, and for the next couple hours my eyes were drawn to my television screen. A few months ago, I got Netflix. Well my dad lets me use his account. I love movies and horror is my favorite genre; has been for twelve years. No joke, I think I have watched every single horror movie Netflix has to offer. Since I am patiently waiting for season three of American Horror Story to be released, I put on a random movie for background noise while I was doing some writing. Apartment 1301 is what I thought to be some low-budget, B-rated horror, meaning it would be more funny than scary. It caught my attention, though, and for the next couple hours my eyes were drawn to my television screen.

Apartment 1303 takes place in Detroit. Janet and her mom Maddie never got along. Maddie is an alcoholic and Janet has just about had enough of her mother’s reckless rages, so she decides to move out of her mother’s home. After packing up her things, on the way to her new home, Janet calls her sister Lara to tell her what she decided to do. When Janet gets to the floor of her apartment she meets her neighbor Emily. Janet was expecting a pleasant welcome, but Emily didn’t welcome her. Emily warned her not to live in apartment 1303, because years before, a girl named Jennifer killed her mother and stuffed the body in a closet. A few years after she killed her mother she committed suicide by jumping off the balcony. Disregarding what Emily said, Janet still moved in. I will let you watch the movie to see what happens next. This movie is very suspenseful and will keep you on your toes. Released in 2013, Apartment 1303 hasn’t received good reviews by other people, but don’t let that discourage you from seeing it yourself. Everyone has different opinions about things they see or hear. Watch with an open mind and form your own opinions.  I wouldn’t say that this was the best horror movie ever, but comparing it to other recent horror movies that have been released, this one is pretty good. The plot was something new to me. I haven’t seen it in any other movie. A huge pet peeve of mine is when directors try to create a “new” horror but use scenes or aspects from older horror films. This movie is completely original and deserves props for that. 

If it’s a rainy day, you have nothing to do or just a horror movie fanatic like I am then I would give Apartment 1303 a try. It is not totally scary, but it’s very suspenseful.

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A bunch of random thoughts, notes and information:

*  It's been neat to see a coach go directly from Division III to Division I as a Head Coach (as Rhode Island College's Bob Walsh just did - he's the new Head Coach at Maine) and a coach go directly from Division II to a major Division I Head Coaching job (as Central Missouri's Kim Anderson has done - he's the new Head Coach at Missouri).  Best wishes to both of them.

*  Congratulations to Lincoln Memorial Coach Josh Schertz for being named the winner of the Red Auerbach Coach of the Year Award.

*  On a random note, I'm personally very pleased to see Rusty Rogers named as the Head Women's Coach at women's coach at Concordia in Chicago.  Rusty was the Head Women's Coach at Wilmington College (now Wilmington University -DE) when I was an assistant on the men's side (before I became the Head Coach).  He did an outstanding job there, and then went onto win back-to-back National Championships at Western Oregon.  I'm really glad to see him back in collegiate coaching.  Here's the article on the D3hoops site:  http://www.d3hoops.com/notables/2014/05/rogers-named-womens-coach-concordia-Chicago

*  Anthony Hall has been named as the Head Coach at Fontbonne.  Hall was previously the Athletic Director and Head Coach at Avila, yet his wife got a good job in in St. Louis several years ago.  It will be nice to see him back on the sidelines.

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My all girls catholic high school, Fontbonne Academy, is currently being sued for telling a man they wouldn't hire him because he was gay. You think they'd be smart enough to say something like "we found someone more qualified" to not be sued, but alas. Of course, all my straight high school friends jumped to FBA's defense saying "but it's not REALLY homophobic -I mean, I had a great time at that school!" Here's my response.

I loved and hated my 4 years at Fontbonne Academy. I've heard about the Matt Barrett case and honestly, I don't blame the guy for suing the school at all. Because hey, FBA was actually pretty homophobic. If they didn't want to hire him for being gay, say it's because they found someone more qualified. That shit's still illegal. I get it, "Fontbonne was there for me, I had support and friends and great teachers, things that changed my life for the better, and blah blah blah." I had a lot of the same things too, but at the same time everything was totally different. For your heterosexual high school experience, those are all great things and plenty enough. My experience? Not so much. As many of you may know, I went through a variety of labels for my (still quite frankly confusing) sexuality in high school but the one that stuck for the faculty and staff was "lesbian." It's true, there were a ton of people who supported me or gave no fucks, including great people like Ms. Baker and Ms. Gadziala and even Mrs. Cerasuolo (who was hella fucking balls to the wall awesome and important in me getting anywhere, to be honest). Unfortunately, that meant jack all on a daily basis. I was one of very few people to be entirely open about whatever label I was using, a thing many people did in fact have a problem with. I was called down to the office on more than one occasion for holding my girlfriend's hand, while many other females sat in each other's laps with no repercussions because they identified as straight. I had students talking quite a lot of shit about me behind my back and several teachers had no problem making a derogatory mark either to me or to fellow associates. I had fellow students talk to me about their own confusions and fears of coming out because quite frankly, being out at a Catholic school was not easy in the slightest. I started a group called "Friends Regardless," a gay-straight alliance named differently because God forbid the word "gay" be used in anything at that school. And when I was creating this group, I was fought tooth and nail by several members of the faculty who were so against it. It only happened because Mrs. Cerasuolo had my back and let's be real here, she was the true leader of the school. On more than one occasion after meetings, I was told my topics were "too inappropriate" because oh no, a gay group talked about gay stuff. Is that group even still going? They tried so hard to shut it down when I left that I wouldn't be surprised if they succeeded. My social justice project was on transgender rights, and if Ms. Gadziala hadn't supported my decisions there were quite a few issues with the controversy over that. So you go ahead and tell me how supportive the head staff of Fontbonne is of gay people. You go ahead and tell me the school is behind LGBT rights and that the fact that they wonderfully helped form your heterosexual life is so relevant to how they did not at all help positively shape my not-so-hererosexual one. I loved Fontbonne, despite all the opposition I faced for the choices I made. After all, I continued with those choices despite all the opposition, knowing it wasn't going to be easy. Fontbonne does have some great people; they have made a lot of great people. I wouldn't go back and decide to go elsewhere. I've learned so much about what it is to face prejudice thanks to my experiences at that school and I made a lot of wonderful memories with the people in it. I support the school in the way I support a family member that tries to kill themselves. I don't agree with their decisions, but I love them nonetheless. Which is more than the Catholic church can say about the way they treat gay people. There you go. That's my testimony.