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Grow­ing up in the pre-cable uni­verse, I did home­work in the glow of a black white set every after­noon. My favorite show was The Andy Grif­fith Show, and Bar­ney Fife was the best part. Imag­ine my sur­prise a few years later when we got a color set, and I real­ized that AGS was actu­ally shot …

America’s new teen heart throb is a kid dubbed “The Fly­ing Tomato.” You gotta love the imagery. The kid ain’t too bad, either–a breath of hon­est air in the cliche-riddled sports world.

Imag­ine your­self try­ing to get a prom date. You ask three girls, all of them charm­ing and desir­able in their own ways. Imag­ine they all three say, not yes or no–but maybe, let me think about it. You spend the next 4–6 weeks on pins and nee­dles con­tem­plat­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ties, hop­ing that one of them, …

From Teri Lesesne: At mid­win­ter ALA, Shan­nan Sword, the co-convenor of the Teach­ing YA Lit­er­a­ture Dis­cus­sion Group vol­un­teered to set up a blog site for those inter­ested in dis­cussing issues and top­ics related to teach­ing YAL could be shared. If this is one of your inter­ests, please come and sign in at: http://community.livejournal.com/teachyalit/