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Minister of Mayhem

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About Me

Writer, actor, warrior, time-traveller, meddling do-gooder, interdimensional wanderer, strict grammarian, tenured graduate student, full-time Anglophile, occasional corrupter of youth (a.k.a. High School English Teacher.) Postmodern, post-punk, poststructuralist, postage not included.
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Can You Open My Safe?
1st Number:
The number for "my" Doctor.
2nd Number:
Add together the numbers of the Thespian troupe I helped found.
3rd Number:
Subtract my birth year from my husband's birth year. Enter the difference.

Enter Combination:
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2nd Number
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If you are currently attending the school where I teach, I will not add you to my friend list, so don't bother asking. If you have graduated, I will consider it.

My Interests

80s cartoons, 80s music, a cappella music, Ace, acting, AIDS awareness, Alan Rickman, Angel, Anthony Stewart Head, Babylon 5, Bad Medicine, Bad Wolf, the BBC, Boston, Braveheart, British literature, Buffy, Captain Jack Harkness, Celtic culture, Christopher Eccleston, clan Campbell, cricket, David Tennant, deconstruction, Denis Leary, Emma Thompson, England, Eowyn of Rohan, fandom_wank, fanfiction, fiction, film, Fred Burkle, Gandalf, gender theory, Giles, Glasgow Celtic, The Goon Show, Harry Potter, Hello Kitty, hurling, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Ian Mckellen, Indiana Jones, Ireland, Irish history, Irish language, Irish music, jelly babies, John Barrowman, Kaylee, literature, literature theory, London Underground, Manchester United, Modernist literature, Mornington Crescent, Muppets, "my hed iz pastede on yay," names, Neverwhere, nitro9, Northern Ireland, The Norton Anthology, old video games, open minds, OVO, PFLAG, pedagogy, penguins, postmodernism, poststructuralism, Q, quotes, reading, records, Red Sox, Remus Lupin, rugby, Sailor Moon, Sandman, scifi, Scotland, Scottish clans, Shakespeare, Sheffield Wednesday, Supergirl, T.S Eliot, tenor drumming, theatre, thespians, trivia, urban myths, Fresley, Wesley Wyndham-Price, writing, Zebedee.

I'd like to meet:

Liam Clancy, Stephen Fry, Sophie Aldred, Hugh Laurie, Eve Kofsky Sedgwick, Stephen Colbert, John Barrowman

Music:

ABC, Afro Celt Sound System, The Beatles, Blind Boys of Alabama, Brian May, The Clancy Brothers, Clannad, The Clash, Da Vinci's Notebook, David Bowie, Elton John, Emerald Rose, Genesis, Great Big Sea, Iarla O'Lionaird, the Irish Rovers, Jimi Hendrix, Loreena McKennitt, the Nylons, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Gabriel, the Police, Queen, Ray Ellington, Rockapella, the Rolling Stones, Simon and Garfunkel, They Might Be Giants, Tom Leher, Tommy Makem, Toxic Audio, U2, Venus in Furs, the Who

Movies:

Monty Python and The Holy Grail, And the Band Played On, Peter's Friends, Sense and Sensibility [Emma Thompson version], Michael Collins, Braveheart, Clue, Snakes on a Plane

Television:

Doctor Who, House, Buffy, Angel, Monty Python, The Sentinel, Babylon 5, Quantum Leap, Are You Being Served?, MacGyver, Fawlty Towers, the Prisoner, Jericho, The Colbert Report, Firefly, Torchwood, Heroes

Books:

James Joyce, Jasper Fforde, Peter David, Neil Gaiman, Lord Byron, Paul Cornell, JK Rowling, Oscar Wilde, Michael Ford Thomas, Stephen Fry, Eve Kofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, Randy Shilts

Heroes:

My mother, Michael Collins, Dr. Donald Francis, Judith Butler

My Blog

The Best and Worse of Irish Music

Yes, it’s St. Patrick’s Day once again. In my role as promoter of Irish culture, I present to you the best and worst of traditional Irish music. THE WORST 1. "When Irish Eyes Are Smili...
Posted by Minister of Mayhem on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:37:00 PST

Live Shows!

Thursday night, Bad Medicine Returns!! Hope to see some of you there. You know who you are. September 30th, guess where I'm going? I'm going to seeROCKAPELLA Row I, Seats 12 and 13. Aisle seat in the ...
Posted by Minister of Mayhem on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:50:00 PST

because she is in Canada

Greetings from the Far North! You know, the whole point of this trip was to escape the Florida heat. It's been in the 90s up here. I didn't realise it got this hot in Canada. I wish I'd packed more s...
Posted by Minister of Mayhem on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:36:00 PST

And other spaghetti Westerns

The Good: Italy wins the World Cup. Bravissimo! It came down to penalty kicks. Also, I got accepted into a roleplay. :) The Bad: Doctor Who season finale, because it made me sob hysterically for at le...
Posted by Minister of Mayhem on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 02:13:00 PST

Good news/bad news

Good news: House is sold. I accepted the contract today.Bad news: It's the low end of what we were willing to accept. Good news: They can go to a fast closing, so we might be able to be out before th...
Posted by Minister of Mayhem on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 09:17:00 PST

Today we celebrate our independence day

I, unfortunately, have to celebrate it at the beach with my husband's parents and siblings. Now some of you may be saying "why unfortunately?" It has nothing to do with the in-laws. I actually got qui...
Posted by Minister of Mayhem on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:06:00 PST

Superman review (no spoilers)

(I actually wrote this yesterday, but MySpace ate it.) I liked it. It ignored Superman III and IV, which is good because those were awful. Brandon Routh was good, Frank Langella was Perry White, and t...
Posted by Minister of Mayhem on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:13:00 PST

Today's Announcements

Is it just me, or is McDonald's really skimping on the fries these days? Anyone who has completed more than one year teaching in a public school should be exempt from a class that purports to t...
Posted by Minister of Mayhem on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:36:00 PST

Ooh, shiny!

Look what someone made for me! Isn't it cool?!?! Other things I learned this week: People who call and say they want to see your house really don't. They just want to make you sit at home and wai...
Posted by Minister of Mayhem on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 09:48:00 PST

An Open Letter to A Clueless Wanker

Dear "Writer": Please note I use that word loosely. You are a writer only because you've written something down and shared it on the internet. That implies that you wanted us to read it. Here's the pr...
Posted by Minister of Mayhem on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 03:40:00 PST