Congratulations to Cal, the winner of the April Fools Art Competition. His Yeti pulled in 256 votes to Jim’s 105.
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Poetry Month and Bad TV
In features, news on April 14, 2009 at 8:32 am
An image from the Free Verse Project. Credit to the Academy of American Poets.
…night he saw her, but there were many anonymous girls that summer,
there always are, who lower their necks to the stone
and pray, not to God but to the Virgin, herself oncea young girl, chosen in her room by an archangel.
Instead of praying, that summer I watched television, reruns of
a UFO series featuring a melancholic woman detectivewho had gotten cancer and was made sterile by aliens. I watched
infomercials: exercise machines, pasta makers,
and a product called Nails Again With Henna,…
“Dangerous for Girls” — Connie Voisine
April is National Poetry Month. In honor of that, here’s an excerpt from a poem I discovered surfing the Poetry.org site this morning. (My all-time favorite poem, of course, is Sandburg’s “Chicago”.) This poem, which appeals to me on this rainy morning, is doubly cool in that it offers that poets, too, watch bad 90′s television–in this case, The X Files. So just remember–you’re not blowing off studying for exams, you’re finding inspiration.
Raindrops on Freshmen, Trenches Near Buildings…
In features on April 13, 2009 at 7:54 am
Flowers catching the rain. Photo by Pandiyan.
Your PE class may be hosted in the cafeteria and your hangover may be killer (looking at you, seniors), but just because Spring Break is over is no reason to cry. (Instead, focus on the upcoming AP/IB exams!) For your entertainment, here’s a list of fun things you can do to pass the 6 weeks left until we’re out of here:
Timesucks for teenagers:
- Jump in the puddles! Remember when you were young, how nothing beat jumping in puddles on a rainy day? Well, thanks to construction, now you can relive the joy. Just hop a chainlink fence (any one will do) and wallow! We’re reasonably sure the water won’t kill you.
- Sing out loud! We may not have a library any more, but look on the bright side–now all of our music classes can learn from each other! Join them in this musical celebration in the media-center-cum-Carnegie-Hall.
- Kill time on the internubs. As an upside to the classroom reorganization, chances are good that you now have unfettered computer access. Use it to
update the Followspotfind the silliest thing you can blocked by Webwasher. We dare you to beat its blocking of GoogleDocs or anything in the Wall Street Journal archives. - Pay your room and board deposit. Perhaps only applicable to seniors, but it feels so good. Mmmmm.
- Watch TV. Since Hulu is for some reason not blocked by Webwasher, feel free to catch 30 Rock reruns during first period!
Adventures of Hannah and Maritza!
In features on April 1, 2009 at 11:29 am
High above the school where no students have ventured before live two super heroes so beastly that they wear sunglasses and capes to hide their identities. Who are these masked beings and what exactly do they do? (Add theme music here.) Are they good or are they evil? In a daring, spontaneous decision not based at all on Article Assignments we bravely ventured up to the steeple in search of the supposed superheroes.
