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Before writing this, I did consult a diary I kept at the time. The diary had to do with my first year of teaching.

That morning I was driving to an elementary school to teach students who qualified as “Talented in Art.” I was tuned into a radio morning show – the kind that tends to be obnoxious and silly. However, the tone was very different that day. It took me a couple of minutes to register what I was hearing while navigating I-10. I switched to another station that usually is more serious. The first tower had been hit.

Once at school, I went right into teaching my scheduled group of kids. Afterwards, I was in the hall when a teacher told me the news about The Pentagon. Right after that the principal passed by and instructed us to not say anything to students. In the school library, teachers were glued to a television. The rest of the day they checked in to update themselves.

During the end of school announcements, we were informed that the school system would be closed the next day.

I Wish! My cover artist and illustrator is awesome.

My first book, The pregnant man diaries, is about Pregnancy from a masculine point of view, i.e., full of panic, fear and despair.

The second, How Parents are born, is about the first two years of a little girl in her poor dad's life.



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Are your books graphic novels? What are they about?

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Thanks for the promote!

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>> ^ChaosEngine:

>> ^criticalthud:
does anyone else think peter jackson made a soggy mess out of LOTR?

Well, to be fair the source material is a bit soggy to start with. Don't get me wrong, I love the books, but they do have a lot of padding (Tom Bombadil, the battle of the Shire) that the movies wisely cut. Also the pacing in the movies is better. PJ was clever in moving the encounter with Shelob to the third movie as Sam and Frodo really don't have a lot do in book six.
As for the film version, it had moments of absolute brilliance. Theodren's speech before the battle of pellanor fields still gives me goosebumps. I watched Return of the King at an outdoor cinema and half the audience stood up and cheered at that scene.


yeah you're right. lots of singing too..
hard for any movie to live up to such colossal and subjective expectations. but fuck me sideways if staring into frodo's eyes for the gazillionth time wasn't somewhat suckingly annoying. ahh...i'm such a nitpicky dick

>> ^criticalthud:

does anyone else think peter jackson made a soggy mess out of LOTR?


Well, to be fair the source material is a bit soggy to start with. Don't get me wrong, I love the books, but they do have a lot of padding (Tom Bombadil, the battle of the Shire) that the movies wisely cut. Also the pacing in the movies is better. PJ was clever in moving the encounter with Shelob to the third movie as Sam and Frodo really don't have a lot do in book six.

As for the film version, it had moments of absolute brilliance. Theodren's speech before the battle of pellanor fields still gives me goosebumps. I watched Return of the King at an outdoor cinema and half the audience stood up and cheered at that scene.

>> ^EMPIRE:

no. I love the LOTR trilogy, and the man had a gargantuan task.


Ditto!

Leave out the Taxocrat "Free Houses for Poor People Who Won't Repay The Loans Act" and the history of the housing crisis is neatly rewritten.

"No, no, government interference didn't cause people to take stupid risks at ALL! It was all GREED!"

(BTW how much was Blarney Fwank's bonus after running Fan-Fred into the ground)?



"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and now if I am wrong somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosper. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises. I say after eight years of this administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started. And enormous debt to boot."

--Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of Treasury under FDR, as written in his personal diary in May 1939

"NO NO, FDR socialism ENDED the Depression! It just prolonged ITSELF for 14 years afterward!"

On the last point, I don't think he attacks putting calories on the menu as much as he has distaste for government control for what we eat and the government forcing fast food restaurant's hands in providing healthy choices.>> ^longde:

Interesting movie. I've watched an hour of it, and while it makes a couple of good points, I'd say it suffers from the same problems it tags "supersize me" with: erecting strawmen, and ignoring the common sense. In fact, this film has probably more inconsistencies and falacies than "supersize me".
Also, there are alot of hokey moments that draw out the film that could have been left in the editing room.
A few items that lead me to the above:
1) He goes on for a while about how the foods the SuperSizeMe Guy ate could not possibly not have added up to 5000, and he could not have gained 25 pounds. Hmmmm, somewhat convincing. But THEN in the movie, he takes pains to show how the traditional Calories In/Calories Out formula isn't legitimate because of hormones. So, given that, I can see how someone could eat alot of carb rich fast foods, raise their insulin levels, lower their metabolism and gain 25 pounds in a month.
2) He makes a big point about how he could not get the food diary from the SSMG production company; but how long ago was that movie made? Why would they keep all the documentation from the film for so long? Especially in the SSM film, we see half the time what SSMG is eating, and can infer the rest from the simple rules he set.
3) Lastly, and most importantly, this guy, who has a body composistion of 30% fat, wants to downplay that Americans are fatter and more out of shape in history and compared to the rest of the world, and that this is indeed a problem. He says that fat people will live as long as in shape people, but what about quality of life in old age? ANYONE can live to be a hundred given technology, but I want to be in the number that can walk and think independently.
Also, as someone who travels globally frequently, I can say that Americans really are FAT, relatively. Our food portions are huge compared to what other people eat, we walk (vs. driving) alot less, and our body sizes are noticably larger. Thus I think that putting calories on big macs and on menus is a great idea (the film attacks this idea). Let people make choices with all the facts in front of them. That is what real choice is about.

Interesting movie. I've watched an hour of it, and while it makes a couple of good points, I'd say it suffers from the same problems it tags "supersize me" with: erecting strawmen, and ignoring the common sense. In fact, this film has probably more inconsistencies and falacies than "supersize me".

Also, there are alot of hokey moments that draw out the film that could have been left in the editing room.

A few items that lead me to the above:

1) He goes on for a while about how the foods the SuperSizeMe Guy ate could not possibly not have added up to 5000, and he could not have gained 25 pounds. Hmmmm, somewhat convincing. But THEN in the movie, he takes pains to show how the traditional Calories In/Calories Out formula isn't legitimate because of hormones. So, given that, I can see how someone could eat alot of carb rich fast foods, raise their insulin levels, lower their metabolism and gain 25 pounds in a month.

2) He makes a big point about how he could not get the food diary from the SSMG production company; but how long ago was that movie made? Why would they keep all the documentation from the film for so long? Especially in the SSM film, we see half the time what SSMG is eating, and can infer the rest from the simple rules he set.

3) Lastly, and most importantly, this guy, who has a body composistion of 30% fat, wants to downplay that Americans are fatter and more out of shape in history and compared to the rest of the world, and that this is indeed a problem. He says that fat people will live as long as in shape people, but what about quality of life in old age? ANYONE can live to be a hundred given technology, but I want to be in the number that can walk and think independently.

Also, as someone who travels globally frequently, I can say that Americans really are FAT, relatively. Our food portions are huge compared to what other people eat, we walk (vs. driving) alot less, and our body sizes are noticably larger. Thus I think that putting calories on big macs and on menus is a great idea (the film attacks this idea). Let people make choices with all the facts in front of them. That is what real choice is about.

"Dear Diary,

After years of waiting... it finally happened!!! He kissed me!!!!"