Happy first day of school. Let’s try to make a better world, shall we?
Make Peter proud today. For the kids of Ferguson, MO, for the Jackie Robinson West kids and their families, for everyone with grief this morning, and everyone with joy…teach somebody something today, huh?
Ta-ta for now, people. Happy summer.
Week 16! Finals week (and summer) is upon us…hang on, little tomato!
h/t to Kristin Bivens for the suggestion.
Welcome back to Week 14. Be sure to “verify outside employment before the end of the day Friday. You can do so using the PeopleSoft Self Service link on the left. Returning from a big break is always a drag, but it’s better than not having one!
h/t to Amelia for this suggestion a while back.
Xochitl Sandoval is an HWC graduate who has gone on to the University of Illinois in Champaign and is on schedule to graduate this May. She has applied and been accepted to grad school at Loyola and the University of Chicago. She’s awesome for many other reasons as well. Last week, she published an open letter to the U of I Chancellor about her experience as a student at the University of Illinois. She said I should share it with HWC since we are partly responsible for her going there. Here is a description of it.
And this is for her–Pura Fe is awesome whether singing blues or playing lap steel or doing this:
I don’t even know what week this is–week 11? week 12? I’ve lost track. This IS the week–the very day, in fact, that your CV is due to Margie (cc: to Sandra G), and the last day of women’s history month.
Grab yer clogs and get to cloggin’!
Time for the second half. Welcome to Week 9.
Better late than never…happy beginning of Women’s History Month…
How about a little something romantic for the week of Valentine’s Day….
Monday Music is a regular feature whose goal is to provide you with some music to get you fired up for another week of doing the yeoperson’s work of educating the citizenry. Requests welcome!
Roll call!
Monday Music is a regular feature whose goal is to provide you with some music to get you fired up for another week of doing the yeoperson’s work of educating the citizenry. Requests welcome!
Grammy’s edition!
Yes, the Macklemore and Ryan Lewis number (with Trombone Shorty!) was the climactic moment of the show and pretty cool, but what the hell was Madonna doing out there? I guess she was pretty pioneering in a variety of ways with respect to challenging various norms and an icon in some ways, but given her recent work on Twitter, it seemed odd. Not quite as odd as the Highwaymen reuniting to celebrate Kris Kristofferson’s lifetime achievement award and then not performing a Kris Kristofferson song (I was hoping for this one or this one–it always chokes me up) or Ringo warbling through “Photograph” (with Peter Frampton) or Robin Thicke with Chicago, or Metallica and Lang Lang. “Terrible.”
Then there was the usual–Taylor Swift (with awkward-ish head banging–“Look! Her hair goes right back into place,” said my daughter), some faux-gothiness (hello Lorde and Katy Perry), Pink (disappointingly reworking her AMA performance with a little more circus this time morphing into a duet), an attempt at providing a little mix of country-pop and quality blues rock that just shows the limits of the former, in my humble, and doesn’t do much for the latter. Kasey Musgraves had a cool dress, but lame song. Carole King and Sara Bareilles were better than most with their duet. That was cool.
Which left us with three real contenders. Beyonce’s opener was pretty amazing and packed with pop culture references from TV (“Fame”) to film (“Basic Instinct”) and beyond, but I wasw a bit annoyed that they opened with it because that meant we had to answer a lot of questions for our “still-paying-close-attention” children, so they lose on that. Then there was Pharell with Daft Punk and Stevie Wonder, which as great, if only because NOBODY seemed to be having a better time than Pharell when he was watching Stevie Wonder sing his lyrics. Seemed like he couldn’t believe it. It was a great performance of a great song.
But when Imagine Dragons and Kendrick Lamar finished, my son said, “No wonder they won! Look at all the people the got up on their feet.” And he was right. If I could have flown in to see one performance, it would have been this one:
(And after finishing this, I fell across the review on Gawker which was eerily consistent, which made me wonder if I should be proud or appalled.)
Monday Music is a regular feature whose goal is to provide you with some music to get you fired up for another week of doing the yeoperson’s work of educating the citizenry. Requests welcome!
Monday Music is a regular feature whose goal is to provide you with some music to get you fired up for another week of doing the yeoperson’s work of educating the citizenry. Requests welcome!
By request! h/t to Amelia Lopez for the suggestion.
Monday Music is a regular feature whose goal is to provide you with some music to get you fired up for another week of doing the yeoperson’s work of educating the citizenry. Requests welcome!
The Harold Lounge 