A telling letter from Susan, out in the trenches
Correspondent:: hellpopehuey@subgenius.com (HellPopeHuey)
Date: 19 Oct 2004 13:15:00 -0700
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Susan is a good friend of mine who teaches art in public school in
Norfolk, Virgina and who has virtually no Yeti Gland, heh, yet makes
interesting observations all the same. She is married to a Kurd gent
with a remarkable gift for high math and both speak 2 and 3 languages.
He crossed the desert on foot to escape the army at the height of the
Saddam gassings of a few years back. We just had this interesting
exchange:
>>>>So today no less than 3 teachers and 5 children noticed
that I got my hair cut.... you remember, like, back in June or July!
I mean I am such a sparkling and memorable person, its amazing
that they just don't pay any attention to wonderful me.
Other people make me itch in personal places sometimes, but I try to
make semi-regular mention on my couple of Net groups of how
overloading large things have become in life, such that small ones
have merit (or painful impact) that is sometimes out of balance with
the real weight of them. I guess our brains are being slowed waaaay
down by it all and things are "pinging" later than they should. I know
mine is often blurrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyy...
>>>>When I mentioned this at lunch (without names, of course!)
another teacher admitted that she hadn't noticed either.
Good grief! At least to me, I look totally different.
It's still too short to put up on top of my head as I prefer it,
but I've been wearing a cute little pony tail for the last 2 months.
Oh well... now you know why it is such a struggle to get these
teachers to realize how important the arts are in the lives of
children
since their own visual acuity and observational skills
are sooooo deplorably lacking.....
OH yes. If you don't get them in the HABIT of noticing, those
connections don't get made. This is EXACTLY why the steady banishment
of Art & Music classes is so bad. They deal in abstractions and the
lack of that sense spills over into relationships and regard for
things not of a concrete nature. I feel sure it has much to do with
the seeming increase in callousness. Children in particular are
rapidly developing neural pathways upon which they will draw later,
good and bad, so a lack of the seed-planting that goes with being able
to look at things from several angles rather than just the
math-&-almighty RULES angles has long-reaching consequences, in my
view. That lack of a sense of balance evidences itself no more clearly
than in our silver-spooned President, for whom everything is "fine"
just because it seems okay to HIM. There are many jokes floating about
concerning Cheney having spare hearts in a freezer, but in my view, he
and Georgie keep theirs in there already.
>>>>Tooth gnashing 5x per day, no extra charge.
There'd BETTER be no charge; the gnashing itself is payment enough,
dagblaggit!
>>>>>A couple made a deal that whoever died first would come back and
inform
the other of the afterlife. The biggest fear was that there was no
heaven.
After a long life, the husband was the first to go, and true to his
word, he
made contact. As Mary lay asleep, she heard, "Mary...Mary...." "Is
that you,
Fred?" "Yes, I've come back like we agreed." "What's it like?" "Well,
I
get up in the morning, I have sex. I have breakfast, I have sex again,
I
bathe in the sun, then I have sex twice. I have lunch, then sex pretty
much
all afternoon. After supper, I have sex until late at night. The next
day
it starts again." "Oh, Fred you surely must be in heaven." "Not
exactly,
I'm a rabbit in Kansas."
HAW HAW HAW!!!! There's one to pass along!
--
HellPope Huey
Pity the truly Lost, for they are the ones
who keep showing up at political rallies
and demanding scratch-&-sniff centerfolds
in Cat Fancy magazine.
To get the attention of a large animal,
be it an elephant or a bureaucracy,
it helps to know what part of it feels pain.
Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.
- Kelvin Throop
"I'm not going to be your monkey."
- Jon Stewart
Correspondent:: simon
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:22:16 +0100
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In message <8cc8cffc.0410191215.3c2ae765@posting.google.com>,
HellPopeHuey writes
>OH yes. If you don't get them in the HABIT of noticing, those
>connections don't get made. This is EXACTLY why the steady banishment
>of Art & Music classes is so bad.
Yep, as you may know, your idiot twin (or twin idiot) across the
Atlantic, otherwise known as ENGLAND, likes to follow every move you
Amerkins make, just two steps behind. A friend of mine's daughters, at
the age of FOURTEEN, had to choose between studying art and history.
They loved the art teacher, but couldn't afford to give up history. So
the school wipes out one source of creativity and inspiration for these
kids.
Makes me want to puke my guts up at the Ministry of Education and tell
them to put that under their fucking microscopes. ANALYSE THE FUCKING
WORLD TO DEATH WHY DON'T YOU? I'LL SUPERGLUE YOUR EYE TO THE EYEPIECE SO
YOU'LL NEVER HAVE TO LOOK UP AGAIN!
--
Rev. Simeon Simian