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Very few record labels have influenced my taste in music quite like the LateNightTales series. From the moment I heard Air’s mix twenty years ago, I was hooked. This new entry from Barry Can’t Swim is incredible. Highest recommendation.

HEADMASTER: Thanks for meeting with me. We need to discuss your daughter’s senior thesis proposal. DAD: Yes, her mother and I are quite excited for her. I think it will prove a project where the entire school, even the faculty and board, learns a lot. HEADMASTER: Could you tell me in your own words whatContinue reading “What To Think or How To Think?”

Student: I see that we’re reading Frankenstein this year. Gibbs: That’s right. Student: I’m excited for that one. Gibbs: Great. Why? Student: It’s a horror story, right? Horror stories are usually pretty dark and I like dark stuff. Gibbs: What kind of dark stuff? Student: Dark music, dark books, dark clothing. Gibbs: How about dark airplane pilots?Continue reading “Talking With Christian Kids Who Like “Dark” Music & Movies”

Tom: Let’s order the tableside chips. Harry: What’s that? Tom: The waiter wheels a cart out with a bag of chips on it and you like get to see him rip open the bag of chips and then pour the chips in a metal bowl. Then he, like, places the bowl of chips right onContinue reading “Let’s Order The Tableside Chips”

This week, I delivered a talk defending the lecture (and explaining the origins of the terms “guide on the side” and “sage on the stage”) at the Flagler University Institute for Classical Education Workshop.

“You all have made it to the end of another school year, and I want you to know: I have seen your sacrifices. I have not seen all of your sacrifices, but I have seen some of them. I have not seen all of your sacrifices because you are virtuous men and women, which means you doContinue reading “What Teachers Need To Hear From Administrators At The End Of The School Year”

Thanks, AI.

What I love about this sketch is that you can sense the punchline before you know exactly what it will be. Good comedy, much like good teaching, isn’t wholly bound up in surprise, but in confirming what we already suspect. And yet, this video also follows the rule of three, and the way Robert WebbContinue reading “Unbelievable Timing”

“He is a man who is worthy neither of the great censure nor the great praise presently attached to his name. Nonetheless, there is little disagreement on what he has actually said and done. There is only disagreement on what it all means. The very same qualities of his personality which drive his admirers to hail him promptContinue reading “Character Sketch”