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Mister D

I'm a English teacher

About Me

That's right, adults also may have a "My Space." Indeed, your potential employer, or current employer!, is well within his or her rights to check you out online. If there is something on your "My Space" that you'd be ashamed to show your grandma... well, that's not your grandma's fault. Is it?If you ain't my student, I'm sorry for the pedantic tone. You better watch your a-- I mean, your behind-- anyway, though.

My Interests

Stories, pictures, sound, lights.

I'd like to meet:

People I like. Like:

Music:

Do not limit your music! Patsy Cline. Miles Davis. "Bird." Marvin Gaye. Robert Plant (although L.Z., as we all know, is bad luck). My sister: Ricky Martin. My uncle: George Clinton. My Auntie: Ella Fitzgerald. My cousins: Sonora Santanera, Grupo Niche, Luis Miguel. The J.B.'s. George Jones. George Michael. Michael Jackson. Shania Twain. Luther Vandross.

Movies:

Run Lola Run. The Shining. The Jerk. The Gods Must be Crazy. Diva. Blues Brothers. Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee.

Television:

Jon Stewart. David Letterman. Curb your Enthusiasm! History Channel. HGTV. DH. "Lost." (Lost!) Amazing Race. Cops. AbFab. et. al.

Books:

"To the Lighthouse" (Woolf). "The Feast of the Goat" (Vargas-Llosa). "L'Etranger" (Camus). "Confessions of a Mask (Mishima). Works: Milton. Tyler. Burroughs. Moody. Updike. Cheever. "'Volpone,' or, the Fox." "Little Scarlet." "Trout Fishing in America." Roz Chast, Edward Gorey, Charles Addams, Bruce McCall. Edna Ferber? I dunno, I just like saying "Edna Ferber."

Heroes:

Bugs Bunny, Harriett Tubman, Titian, Oprah, Frank Rich, Siddhartha Gautama, Leonardo Fibonacci, Primo Levi, Joanne Wang,

My Blog

taxes: filed.

I'm thinking positively.  Positive thinking!  Positive mental attitude!  Cheerfulness!  Joy!  Independent clauses!  Pluperfect!  High-ho! 
Posted by Mister D on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:16:00 PST

Time management

Is this the best use of your time?  Tear yourself away from the computer screen and consult the analog world of print on paper.  How lucky we are, to have more than a dollar a day to live on...
Posted by Mister D on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:37:00 PST