Category Archives: Zen

Whew! I’m Glad That’s Over

The ketchup’s finally out of the bottle.

For the Principal and Detective

This video about the Con­sti­tu­tion gang is da bomb. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TXJRZ4CFc

The First Amendment Also Protects Stupid Speech

This link leads to a story about a Wis­con­sin teacher who made a tongue-in-check (albeit insen­si­tive, cruel, and short-sighted) post on a blog.  It landed him in jail. Police Capt. Toby Netko defended the arrest. He said the teacher who com­plained was dis­turbed by the ref­er­ence to “one shot at a time” and other edu­ca­tors agreed

A Thank You and A Call for Readers

Thanks to every­one who com­mented or emailed about my last post on page-turners.  The sug­ges­tions have helped, and I’m work­ing my way through the text, throw­ing out chap­ters and rear­rang­ing oth­ers.  It’s a slog, as most of you know, being mas­ter slog­gers your­selves. I do have one request, and I admit that I make it

Wanted: Instructions on Creating a Page-Turner

Des­per­ately Seek­ing A Page-Turner Primer.  If you are one or know of one, please com­ment below.Edited after read­ing the com­ments:Sub­mis­sions on SOUL TACO are going as well as they could go with­out a sale.  Edi­to­r­ial com­ment has been very pos­i­tive and com­pli­men­tary, with one edi­tor request­ing a rewrite, while three oth­ers have said that they

Can Somebody Explain This to Me?

I read this on david­lubar ‘s blog. It’s impor­tant enough to pass along. My other post is about the peo­ple I’m thank­ful for, but first, I’d like to say I’m thank­ful that Ritchie Part­ing­ton had the nerve to ask a prin­ci­pal to actu­ally read.  If any­one has any­more details about this case, please com­ment. QUOTE:A day

The (in)Famous Crab Hat

It’s as grainy as a pic­ture of Nessie but.…