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Kevin

Kevin

About Me

I Teach (rhetoric/communication/debate)I Ride (mountain and road bicycles--about 150 miles a week)I Watch (too much TV, but then I can claim it is an occupational investment)I Listen (to Don and Mike http://www.donandmikewebsite.com)I Play (with all kinds of things! Gardens, guitars, cameras, to name a few)I Fish (Snook and Trout, Anclote Bay, Florida)I Think (all the time. Can't shut the damn thing off. Can you help?)

My Interests

Cycling, Popular Culture, Thought.

I'd like to meet:

People like me who probably really don't have time for this but can't resist the chance to see the world from another's perspective on occassion.

Music:

Superchunk, Portastatic, Dinosaur Jr., Pavement, Sebadoh, GBV, Yo La Tengo, Crooked Fingers

Movies:

Chasing Amy, One from the Heart, Twister.

Television:

Deadliest Catch (Discovery), OLN Cyclism Sundays, Grey's Anatomy.

Books:

Partick O'Brian, Brian Jacques, Robin Hobb, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson.

Heroes:

Jane Addams, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Fran Tarkenton.

My Blog

Chub Line Falls

I have a new enthusiasm...wilderness waterfall hunting. And my trip to Chub Line Falls was the highlight of my spring break. I didn't know that's where I was when I got there and that only added to th...
Posted by Kevin on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:10:00 PST

Destroyer

I hope you'll pardon a blatant sales pitch. I just bought a new CD from Canadian indie rockers Destroyer and I highly recommend it. As I said on my itunes review, it reminds me of Lou Reed on speed no...
Posted by Kevin on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:40:00 PST

The Void

Maybe I'm part of some vast, silent majority, but I fear not. I haven't heard one of my studentsor anyone else save one, dear myspacermention the winter Olympics. But since I was 14 years old (that ...
Posted by Kevin on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:32:00 PST

Baby smooth

The Gillette Fusion Razor. I think the first time I saw the ad was during the superbowl. 4 blades? Is this REALLY necessary. Well, I am here to tell you, it may not be NECESSARY but I am emb...
Posted by Kevin on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:42:00 PST

Winter Weather

Here in the Upstate of South Carolina we are supposed to get "winter weather" on occassion. But besides one damaging ice storm in December, we have been jipped out of snow this year. Yes, I said jippe...
Posted by Kevin on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:57:00 PST

Bright Ideas

While I'm in a blogging mood, let me call everyone's attention to the quasi-new "record" from Portastatic called "Bright Ideas." You can hear a great cut from the disc on my myspace page (I wanna know...
Posted by Kevin on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:17:00 PST

State of Disunion

Here I sit watching this misguided empty suit drone on, and frankly, there is just so much wrong with it all that it's almost pointless to say so. But allow me this one observation: He begins with an ...
Posted by Kevin on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:03:00 PST

Bad blogger, bad

I could have predicted it! I am a terrible blogger! The end of summer is busy on the bike and busy at school for me, and, to be honest, I'm not sure there are actually a great many people out there wh...
Posted by Kevin on Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:36:00 PST

Why should I have to?

Ive had about enough of self-help gurus and holier-than-thou television life coaches of every stripe. Oprah, Dr. Phil. Dr. Laura, Tony Robbins and every two-bit leadership seminar pitch man who see...
Posted by Kevin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

It's as simple as night and day

From Clive Barker's Abarat: The Day is words and rage. The Day is order, earth, and gold. It is the philosophers in their cities; It is the map-makers in their wastelands. It is roads and milestones, ...
Posted by Kevin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST