#curriculum mixtape

[anti-con-tent]

Day 2: my least favourite song—Dayvan Cowboy

30 days of music, but Boards of Canada day 2.

Least favourite: good words. BoC haven't done anything bad in my view. But Dayvan Cowboy is an easy choice. May be the only BoC recording with an official video, which says it all. (Update: at least I was equivocal—it isn't.)

The album it belongs to, The Campfire Headphase, is BoC at their most coffee table (despite sublime moments like Peacock Tail, Oscar See Through Red Eye and Ataronchronon). There's nothing wrong with it. It's an accessible way in. I'd probably put it on a mixtape for BoC beginners. But it's nowhere near the advanced-listening curriculum.

[drogba-prospect]

Coup d’Pied

French AAU Basketball et NYC Streetball "Culture Antagonist"; Thé other French National Team, Jardin de Diamant de Côté d’Ivoire

Dancehall culture actively creates a space for its "affectors" (creators of dancehall culture) and its "affectees" (consumers of dancehall culture) to take control of their own representation, contest conventional relationships of power, and exercise some level of cultural, social and even political autonomy.

Primate City New York Basketball Mecca Structure: Cologne Circuits in Fleurdelysé Philadelphie with Coup d'Pied Courts on Rue Jacquës

UEFA Front Office Curriculum

Museum d'histoire: Broken down into three major section — “A Lineage of Coaches Players and Places,” “Proving Grounds” and “Cultures of Basketball” — City/Game documents how basketball first found its origins in the neighborhoods of NYC and then went on to produce a roster of local legends who played everywhere from Rucker Park and the Cage on West 4th Street to Christ the King High School and St. John’s University.

Summer Camps (I wrote in Cursive, Took Choir and The Xylophone, did Gymnastics and Swimming, Thrift Basketball Jerseys, Video Game Trafficking, had fake Tattoos, and played Dominoes; Jet Set Radio; and Gran Turismo before Mario Kart in Elementary School.)

Vulgar Latin French (Nouchi)

NOUCHI Latte Noire Graffiti Courts: d'Pied has a Noun Système for NOUCHI Argot, Coup d'Pied Dice 5 Dice Variation of Ship, Captain, Crew: 6 = Coup, 5 = d', 4 = Pied, et Clean Sheet = Lowest Score (Winner), Coup d’Pied Pastel Dominoes (Range Accuracy), NOUCHI Marins Ivres Gastronomy, Subswoofers et NOUCHI Nuage, Video Game Trafficking: FIFA Coupe d'Pied is based off of FIFA Street et MLB Front Office Manager, NOUCHI Ball: Quartier Size Smaller than a Futsal Ball with Graffiti Designs

Cursive Writing et Tagging for Signature Tag (No Autograph)/Signature Tag replaces name back of Jersey

Slang: Coffee et Poker

Three System Model: Drive System, Threat Detection System, Soothing System

Menthol Squeeze Ball Palm Leaf Blunts

Fashion Sponsored Mixtapes and EPs

Belgique Brand Fragrance Festivals/Modelling et Men's Grooming Trade Shows (Pitti Uomo)

Coffee Cosmétiques

Agility Ladder Eyes Pocket: Eyes Between Defenders Feet and Ball, Numbered Footwork V-Step (Shifting Defenders with Momentum) et L-Step (Explosive First Step), All moves should form a Triangle or an Incomplete Triangle (Coup de Pied)

*Push-Pull Sprint/Shooting Cycle: Pull Glutes et Hamstring; Push Calf et Quads for Sprints.

Sprint Size Up: A series of feint Stepover dribble moves with Eye Tricks (Fake Pass) but Sprint Position Finish

Triangle Philosophy: All Dribbling Moves should form a Triangle or an Incomplete Triangle while using V-Step (Shifting Defenders with Momentum) et L-Step (Explosive First Step).

*V-Roll Touch avec Triangle et Trois Door Visual Aid: V around ball for Foot Arch Contact Point et Roll Seams of thé ball, V-Step uses Triangle Visual Aid, L-Step uses Trois Door (Saïmon Made This)

Supercompensation Training: 200m Sprint Training, Isometic-Plyometic French Contrast Training, Kettle Bell Deadlift Complexes, et Counterbalance Kettle Bell Résistance Mobility.

Quart de Terrain (Inverted Wing-Back Défense)

Moitié de Terrain (Inverted Winger Offense)

March 1st Transfer Windows (LVMH Farming)

Franc Zone Économique Infrastructure Tournament

Vodka Moules-frites Beach Bum Culture

Socioéconomique Status Dévelopment Centres

Vodka Endorsements

Street Food

Street Photography

Street Workout

Café Culture

Children's Street Culture

Block Party

Bloor Street

A street can often serve as the catalyst for the neighborhood's prosperity, culture and solidarity.

Spiritual Catalyst

Layered Herringbone Chains

Égyptien Glyphs for Planetary intelligence

Enochian Scripture

GABA

808s

Chasse à la Couronne {Crown Hunting} (Keystone Habits Growth Mindset)

Movement

Grooming

Marins Ivres Gastronomy

Shamanic Drumming Trance State

Sensual Self Care

Erotic Self Care

Kingsley Stewart outlines ten of the major cultural imperatives or principles that constitute the dancehall worldview. They are:

It involves the dynamic interweaving of God and Haile Selassie

Fleur-de-lys et Didier Drogba

It acts as a form of stress release or psycho-physiological relief

Daily Movement et Dominos

It acts as a medium for economic advancement

Working Class Club

Contracts: Real Estate Joint Venture (Artisanal Mining et Plantations), Shares Appreciation Rights Plan (SARS Plan), Deferred Contracts

The quickest way to an object is the preferred way (i.e., the speed imperative)

The end justifies the means

It strives to make the unseen visible

Objects and events that are external to the body are more important than internal processes; what is seen is more important than what is thought (i.e., the pre-eminence of the external)

Championships

The importance of the external self; the self is consciously publicly constructed and validated

The ideal self is shifting, fluid, adaptive, and malleable, and

It involves the socioexistential imperative to transcend the normal (i.e., there is an emphasis on not being normal).[47]

Jean-Kouassi Delevoix

[thelensofyashunews]

Trapland Pat Aims to Educate with 'Professor Trap' Mixtape

The Broward Country Breakout Completes His Hood Curriculum, Serving Infectious Melodies and Spitting Words of Wisdom On His Follow-Up to Last Year’s TrapnificentFeaturing Appearances From Rick Ross, Tee Grizzley, Fredo Bang, Luh Tyler, and More, Professor Trap is Out Now via Bang Biz/Alamo Records Communicating his street lessons using crisp turns of phrase and easygoing melodies, Trapland…

[soulwillower]

Hello! Do you have any links to things I can check out to educate myself on the BLM movement? I want to do things but kind of don't know how to Start. Thank you! I love your writing!

hi! thank you for reaching out :) i answered another ask about this, and i’ve just decided to post this again!! 

as a disclaimer, i am still learning as much as i can as a white woman in America. i that being said, here is what i can say:

centuries of systematic oppression will not go away if people do not take action and talk, global structural change is needed.

remember that racism is prevalent everywhere in the world

and just because it isn’t getting publicity/filmed/much talk, that doesn’t mean that it isn’t happening.

racism and white supremacy comes in all different types, and it is embedded in everyday life, especially in america. 

also remember that as a white person, it is your own responsibility to learn and understand white privilege and systematic oppression, it is not poc’s responsibility to explain racism to you.

stop spreading the video of george floyd. instead, donate. say his name, talk about it, let it hurt you and fuel your fire but do not watch the video or spread it.

this goes for all of the innocent black citizens who have been murdered. do not forget them.

have an honest discussion with yourself.

acknowledge the ways you have been insensitive, complacent, or racist. nobody becomes “not racist.” we can only strive to be “anti-racist.”

follow and learn from BLACK EDUCATORS. and pay them for the work they’re doing.

this diagram shows many types of overt and covert racism and it is very helpful to stay vigilant:

here are some websites that have very good information.

antiracism resources guide: x

more sources (including phone #s and scripts, gofundme’s, and education)

https://citizenshipandsocialjustice.com/2015/07/10/curriculum-for-white-americans-to-educate-themselves-on-race-and-racism/

https://blacklivesmatter.com

https://www.naacp.org

topics to search:

neocolonialism

white savior complex

internalized and externalized oppression

school-to-prison pipelines

reverse-racism

weaponized whiteness

neoliberalism

complacency

films and shows to watch:

13th

American Son

Dear White People

See You Yesterday

Blackkklansman

When They See Us

If Beale Street Could Talk

The Hate U Give

Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975

Clemency

Fruitvale Station

I Am Not Your Negro

Just Mercy

Selma

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

if you want to donate, here are just a few of the many places to do so:

george floyd memorial fund- https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd

minnesota freedom fund- https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/donate

i run with maud - justice for amaud arbery fundraiser - https://www.gofundme.com/f/i-run-with-maud

justice for breonna taylor petition and fundraiser- https://www.change.org/p/andy-beshear-justice-for-breonna-taylor

black visions collective- https://www.blackvisionsmn.org

NAACP- https://www.naacp.org

please add onto this if you’d like, and share it!

[genre-urbanarts]

Come write with us on Sunday evenings to become part of our writing community. Writing facilitation and curriculum developed by Nakeysha, owner and creative director of GUA, is also a writer, street art connoisseuse, Curriculum Specialist and Instructor with 11 years of experience. August 30th- December 13th Urbanites- Sunday @ 6pm Femme Literati: Mixtape, Sunday @7:15pm Classes are range from $20- $310. Workshop seats are limited. Register today at genreurbanarts.com. The workshops are one hour each with the goal of the writing development & community. We will also practice the implementation of writing strategies & rhetoric to make good writing, juicy. We have two offerings for Fall 2020. Urbanites Bring your pen, and paper... or digital device... and let’s do it. This class is open to anyone working to improve their writing and interesting in being in the presence of creatives. Femme Literati: Mixtape Writers This group is open to Black Women only. We want to protect spaces and make spaces for our Black women to write and speak about issues that are at the forefront to us. Living in sisterhood we will gather a part of our diaspora together for conference. Cannot wait to see you!

[nvizn-ideas]

It is common to hear people proclaim the need to improve education. Yet articulating what that looks like is difficult. The various silver bullets often suggested (charter schools, higher teacher pay, dismantling teacher unions, etc.) are not really silver bullets. If they were, it would be evident in the research & it is not. 

What needs to change is the curriculum – what students mentally engage with in their classrooms every day of the school year. Are students memorizing vocabulary words, coloring pictures & enduring endless rounds of drill & practice? Or are they grappling with high-level ideas, asking questions, solving problems, experiencing and gathering evidence about the universe?

[musingsmemes]

~Legacies Season One Episode Four Quotes~

“Come on man. I’m the loveable virgin, it’s not my time.”

“Just got a little peckish, went out for a midnight snack.”

“It won’t hurt to assume the worst.”

“Because that’s what heroes do.”

“So, I volunteer as tribute.”

“Why you still thinking about murdering him?”

“Any idea what to do with __ while we search for missing mean girls?”

“Keep my head down, make myself useful, and don’t pick fights.”

“I was making an entrance, mophead.”

“Sorry, I just had a flashback to my freshman year here.”

“So get your wedgie trauma in check or leave.”

“__, you try not to deliberately alienate the entire student body.”

“You’re right, it’s a mission. For a hero and __ league of whatevers.”

“Would you like to be the robin to my batwoman?”

“You know the wolves usually eat outside.”

“Why didn’t you ditch like __ and play detective?”

“Well, I’m working on offensive spells for class.”

“They only teach defensive magic here, but I personally think the curriculum needs to evolve.”

“I’m still trying to wrap my head around this being a normal conversation here.”

“As fun as this hurricane of toxic masculinity is, I have to get to class.”

“On your left you’ll find the bathrooms where I had my first kiss with a toilet.”

“Is the fact I’m not openly hostile to you make it seem like we’re back to being friends?”

“I’m sorry, you look traumatized. Is this loser bothering you?”

“__ keeps trying to get me to buy __ mixtape.”

“Have either of you heard about the vampires at our school feeding?”

“But she did invite me to try out for the cheerleading team?”

“Meaning that we have a transitioning vampire on our hands.”

“All you gotta do is tell us the story, it’s our rite of passage.”

“You can either submit or you can bleed and then submit.”

“Nailed it, bro. Easy decision, right?”

“Oops, I suck at math.”

“I think her soul just got on my shoes. Eww!”

“Calm down! Close your eyes and breathe!”

“I meant adding an elective, not launching a revolution.”

“What’s it going to be? Toilet bowl, trash can, bloody nose?”

“Spider, a big spider! An arachnid if you want to get specific.”

“This is nerd porn, not real life.”

“This is bad. Whatever spun this is going to come back and eat us.”

“I don’t know, the room’s still spinning.”

“So much for my plan to spend the day as a normal teenage __.”

“I don’t know why creatures we’ve only read about in books are making cameos in Mystic Falls.”

“Being a hero is not more important than being safe.”

“Well the only reason we’re alive today is because we broke the rules.”

“The past couple of days have proven you can’t protect us from everything.”

“I love you... sort of.”

“I guess I felt like launching the revolution.”

“You know man, ask yourself why you don’t see many rabbits running around the yard here.”

[schoollibraryprogramming]

Black Out Poetry-Multiple Days

By Tara Hargrove

 Planning

Poetry seems to be a subject that is feared by both students and teachers. We learn at an early age that there is a rhyme and reason to it, and as we get older, we are taught opposite of that. Sometimes rules apply, and sometimes it feels like there are no rules. This makes it difficult for students to understand and even get in to enjoying it. Teachers often hesitate when teaching poetry and save it for last in their curriculum. This doesn’t take a lot of planning or thinking, it uses a lot of emotion and feeling and lets the students go with the flow of what they can find on a page from a random book. It makes poetry fun and can be used as an intro into the unit to ease the students in, or something fun to display and wrap up a poetry unit. 

  Promotion

You will start by promoting some free verse books such as Booked by Kwame Alexander or Love That Dog by Sharron Creech. Read a little from each book and discuss how the books are telling a story but through poems. Tell the students that there are lots of different kinds of poetry, and free-verse is one where you can do just about anything! Give a few more examples (Hate That Cat, Rebound, Solo, etc.). You can even visit Kwame Alexander’s website and let the students listen to him rap a mixtape of his free verse jazz style https://kwamealexander.com/product/f/Kwame-squo-s_Mixtape. Then show students an example of blackout poetry and explain that they are going to create some themselves using pages from old books and sharpies. 

  Preparations

This is a simple prep, but it will take a couple of days to complete and share out (like a beatnik reading with a spotlight). You will need copies of the books and poems picked out ahead of time to share. A projector and computer to share Kwame’s website and mixtape (if you want) and to share pictures of blackout poetry (check out Pinterest and create some of your own, see mine attached). You will need to tear out pages from old books to use. I use two chapter books for 100 kids and it was plenty for each student to make at least two poems. You will need lots of black sharpies too (at least one per student). 

  Procedures

Discuss what free verse means and share some free-verse excerpts from the books listed above. 

Share Kwame Alexander’s mixtape on his website and discuss.

Talk about black out poetry and what it is. Show examples and explain how it works (you create a free verse poem by finding words on the page that mesh together to create a poem and blackout the rest).

Show students where the old book pages are and hand everyone a sharpie. Students need to box the words with a pencil first and see if they like the way it flows before using the Sharpie. 

Students will need at least a couple of class periods for this (the first one being the discussion and getting started, the second period with them only working on the poetry). Teacher can assess if a third day is necessary.

The third day (or fourth if you decide to spend one more day on the poems themselves) will entail the students sharing their poems with the class. This is fun! You can black out the library and use an old overhead projector to use as a spotlight on the reader. My kids enjoyed this part. We also had coke floats (which is a fun added celebration if you wish). 

Hang some of the blackout poetry on display for the rest of the school to see! 

  Payoff

Students will really enjoy this poetry activity and I think it would be a great way to end the unit (on a positive note and with celebrating) that way students will have ideas of books that are free verse that they can read. This will hopefully get them more into poetry and away from misconceptions that poetry is hard or boring and difficult to understand. 

[newshubnaija]

The Music Industry Needs A Marlian Music Joint Album Right Now — Do You Agree?

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When Olamide paused his album streak to create the “YBNL Mafia Mixtape” in 2018, that was a revolution in the industry. Not that it was the first time a record label project like that has come to life in the industry. Far from it, in fact. We’ve had projects like “Curriculum Vitae” by Mo’hits All-Stars, and “Empire State of Mind” by the EME boys in the mid to late 2000s. They were really…

[newyorkprelawland-blog]

College Athlete To College Millionaire Athlete

By Nibras Islam, Binghamton University Class of 2022

September 12, 2021

The commissioner of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) earns between $4-5 million, while the commissioners of the top conferences make about $2-3 million. Some college athletic directors make over $1 million annually, while Division I football program coaches can make as much as $11 million, with their assistants earning about $2.5 million annually. Division I programs also earn more revenue from regular-season games due to the viewers attracted. Some television contracts, such as March Madness, are worth as much as $1.1 billion. The NCAA players, the stars and lifeblood of the industry, earn nothing. In fact, they are prohibited from profiting off their hard work and talents. 

The issue of athletes finally being allowed to profit off their name, image, and likeness comes after a long and heated battle that the NCAA had long tried to avoid. Under the clause that college athletes were to be preserved as “amateurs” and NCAA did not intend to compensate as such. Athletes would be subjected to high penalties for accepting any form of gifts or presents, and these punishments ranged anywhere from fines and indefinite suspensions, to losing eligibility altogether. The NCAA president Mark Emmert has long upheld that there should not be blurred lines between professional and collegiate sports, and that college sports would die if athletes were paid. They argue that compensation would draw away from the competitive nature, and the high ratings from consumers reflect a genuine love of collegiate sports games, not originating from financial motives. While this new era of name, image, and likeness certainly has yet to fully unfurl, it certainly comes as a welcome to many.

The case comes subsequent to another NCAA court defeat in June, NCAA vs. Alston which concerns the jurisdiction of the NCAA in restricting and limiting education-related benefits granted to student-athletes. The case was against the NCAA standing rule that capped the amount of scholarship funding schools could offer to student athletes. The former group of athletes that sued had done so on the grounds that the limitation violated antitrust laws designed to promote competition. The 9-0 decision was rendered by the Supreme court in favor of the group, with Justice Neil Gorsuch delivering the majority opinion stating: 

"To the extent the NCAA means to propose a sort of judicially ordained immunity from the terms of the Sherman Act for its restraints of trade- that we should overlook its restrictions because they happen to fall at the intersection of higher education, sports, and money- we cannot agree."

Justice Brett Kavanagh also delivered a concurring opinion, stating impactful words such as “The NCAA is not above the law,” and that the decision "marks an important and overdue course correction" and poses "serious questions" about the NCAA's existing compensation rule. He further tore into the corporation by delivering what would seem to indicate that the Supreme Court would align with those arguing in favor of compensation with athletes. He states:

“But the student athletes who generate the revenues, many of whom are African American and from lower-income backgrounds, end up with little or nothing. Nowhere else in America can businesses get away with agreeing not to pay their workers a fair market rate on the theory that their product is defined by not paying their workers a fair market rate. And under ordinary principles of antitrust law, it is not evident why college sports should be any different."

The result of the decision meant that schools would now be allowed to entice student-athletes to their schools with incentives that they could not have before, such as scholarships, internships, foreign study programs, computers, and other benefits. By the time of the decision, about twelve states had already passed legislation that student athletes should be allowed to be compensated for their name, image, and likeness to enact shortly, and congress was on the verge of deliberating on the matter as well. While the issue of education related benefits was separate from the issue of compensation of the athletes, the 9-0 defeat in the Supreme Court and imminent further pending legal battles surely seemed to be a proactive measure and had some part in the NCAA deciding to allow for athletes to be compensated. 

Nonetheless, the reversal rendered on behalf of the NCAA board of governors is relatively new, and cause for conflicting discourse over what is deemed permitted in this uncharted territory of college sports.  There are existing laws in different states, but they generally seem to vary, such as the “Fair Pay to Play” Act in California, or the Student-Athlete Equity act in North Carolina. The general guidelines seem to dissuade getting sponsored by bar-like settings that promote gambling, tobacco, alcohol, adult entertainment, or anything that would be deemed questionable by a school’s morals and desire for association. University of Louisville banned its athletes from signing with Barstool Sports, which reportedly already has 150, 000 athletes signed. Other guidelines include not being directly compensated for athletic performance and understanding of the athlete to be fully aware of what is expected in return for compensation, which could be grounds for trouble. Some school officials even fear for the athlete’s personal safety, such as Professor and CEO of the Global Sport Institute at Arizona State University-Tempe, Kenneth L. Shropshire, who states that students should investigate their university athletics department resources, seeking active conversations with their university compliance officer, state guidelines, and even attorneys, accountants, and personal advisers. At Nebraska, the school has taken steps as far as launching an educational support program to combat the pitfalls of navigating the athlete marketplace. Due to the predatory nature of agencies and companies trying to exploit many athletes in the professional world, many are fearful that susceptible and unwary college students may also fall victim. 

The name, image, and likeness era already has had profound effects, and not just for athlete’s personal banking accounts. For eons, the NCAA has held a monopoly in college sports, and even the universities had the leverage of advertising and marketing, attracting future talent in perpetuity. With these reversals, the power balance shifts and athletes can utilize their hard work that has led them to that point, as well as gain something monetarily to show for their grueling student-athlete schedules. They would be able to monetize their social media posts, engage in sponsorship ads, and profit from merchandise, memorabilia, and autographs. Even lesser talented athletes may be able to leverage their social media presence to attract further recognition from big brands that recognize the value and importance of personal branding. By utilizing their social media platforms to attract engagement, they possess marketability and net worth value, always a crucial factor when trying to make one’s institution more lucrative. UCLA gymnast Katelyn Ohashi, who went viral for one of her floor routines, could have had a small fortune. Athletes such as Zion Williamson, with his viral high school and college basketball mixtapes, could have developed their brand much earlier than they had already set out to do in their assured claim to fame. One’s personal brand and likeness is arguably the most priceless item one possesses. That is the utmost essence of our personal intellectual property; the fiber of who we individually are as a human-being. 

It is crucial that we help protect athletes, given how much they sacrifice their bodies for entertainment and monetary value as with any other nationally broadcasted sports, let alone home to two of the top money-making series in college football and basketball. Given how many athletes pursue athletics to combat socioeconomic difficulties, it is absurd to think that a multi-billion-dollar industry, $8.8 billion in television deals generating in over $1.1 billion in revenue to be exact, somehow has the audacity to ensure regulations that its athletes are prohibited from something as simple as obtaining a new laptop to engage in their educational curriculum, resources which they may have not had previously. Over 19 states have enacted or are in the process of passing in the coming years, laws regarding NIL. Furthermore, there is a pending lawsuit of NCAA vs. House, in which U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken denied the NCAA and its Power 5 Conferences motion to dismiss the suit regarding four players who had been denied pay for appearing in television broadcasts. These may be the first in a string of many defeats for the National Collegiate Athletic Association and exposing the corporations’ violations of antitrust principles and regulations. 

This new era also stems into further issues, such as the gender wage imbalance in sports or international student-athlete eligibility, or whether high school NIL eligibility will become a subsequent prominent issue, such as in the case of Texas high school senior Quinn Ewers forgoing his senior year of high school due to Texas’s high school NIL ban. Not to mention, the ever-changing progression of intellectual property technology and regulation that comes with it, such as whether athletes will be able to utilize their school’s intellectual property unequivocally in their financial ventures, or regarding cryptocurrency and whether athletes will be able to profit off non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Nonetheless, the era of name image and likeness is revolutionary in a plethora of remarkable ways, and unprecedented in the existence of collegiate sports.  

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Nibras Islam is currently an undergraduate senior studying Philosophy, Politics, and Law at Binghamton University with a minor in economics. He hopes to seek admission into law school for the Fall 2022 class. He is a part of the mock trial team and is a Licensed Real Estate Agent at a student-housing oriented brokerage. His hobbies and passions include fashion, music, basketball, and football. 

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https://sites.law.berkeley.edu/thenetwork/2021/04/06/the-future-of-the-ncaas-business-model-is-in-jeopardy/

https://www.boston.com/sports/college-sports/2021/07/01/ncaa-paying-athletes-rules/

https://optimumsportsconsulting.substack.com/p/nil-newsletter-10-thursday-august?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy

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https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-512_gfbh.pdf

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https://collegerowcoach.org/name-image-and-likeness/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelrueda/2021/02/11/why-college-athletes-must-prepare-for-the-name-image-and-likeness-era/?sh=46a2ad6e2634

https://unafraidshow.com/ncaa-pay-college-athletes-name-image-likeness/

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/name-image-likeness-what-college-athletes-should-know-about-ncaa-rules

[mrsandok]

Making Sense of Good Things

My heart has been full with nothing but positivity lately.  For myself, my friends, and for what’s to come.  Nevertheless, there’s some serious stress attached to these early days of this new stage in my life.

Ever since taking up Buddhism, it’s been an exercise in learning what makes me happy and what doesn’t.  I’m finally able to begin to articulate what makes me happy and how to maintain it.  There’s definitely some grueling parts of the introspective effort to look at my life when confronting the things I don’t like about myself; nevertheless, it’s healthy to acknowledge and move toward change. 

Stoicism has also helped knowing that I’m not in control of a lot of things in my life and I’ve learned to accept that.  I’ve always sought complete control in different, if not all, parts of my life.  It’s been an active effort to…just…let…things…be.

I’m happy my friends are in a similar place in life with me.  Mayo just got a UX job.  Bryan is settling back in Cali.  Sean is finishing a two year music project.  Taro is settling into his PhD program. And me...

I feel like I’m a new teacher again.  

I went from a 20+ person department to a department of 6.  Not only that, being back in person with a full classroom for the first time since March ‘20 is surreal. 

Students and staff alike are trying to find their footing.  Some are faking the funk saying that they have it handled.  Others, like me, are open with how hard this shit is.

It’s so different.  I dedicated 16 years of my life to English.  

I felt pretty far removed to those 16 years during the first few days.  The class demographics are so different.  I have English learners, different grade levels, a variety of mild to severe students with special needs...with...one...curriculum of art/photography. 

It’s wild.

I want to be selfish and think solely about myself and continue to do my thing like I was doing during summer but I have a job to educate these students and not disappoint their families or the administration that trusted me with this position.

I’m slowly settling in and enjoying the moment for what it is:  Weird and funny while reminding myself that I’m in it for the long haul. 

Summer Sandōk is 290 days away.

Some shit that’s amusing to me:

- I’ve always found it weird to ask another person permission to use the bathroom.  I’m sure it’s weird for them…having been at home for a year and a half back to school and to these rules that a stranger adult imposes on them.

- It took me four days to remember how to do a seating chart!!!  I kept making all these careless errors and confusing students but I wasn’t able to tweak it in a short time so I just ran with it.  I was so used to Google Meet populating an Excel sheet of who was here and who wasn’t.  Now I’m dealing with a bunch of masked students rather than students having their cameras off.  Haha.

No one said this shit was gonna be easy.

I get a bunch of comments saying “at least you won’t be grading essays anymore!”

I smile as a friendly form of agreement hoping it’s a congratulatory expression rather than one coming from envy.

But going back to the story of Buddha…everyone suffers.

Sure—English teachers suffer from the amount of essay grading they have to do.  But we all suffer in our own specific way.  (Poor people suffer because they’re poor / rich people suffer because they’re poor / etc.)

I’m definitely suffering from exiting the pandemic and trying to make sense of my new department and role at the high school.

This time of being nervous, anxious, and exhausted will pass and I’ll be able to work a job that will put me in a better place mentally

As I reflect about my new role, I realize how fucking stressful my job of being an English teacher was.  It took years for me to humble myself and realize school isn’t about me--it’s about reaching the students and getting them to care about themselves, the community, and the world.  That shit is fucking exhausting.

Five years of dealing with Trump’s rhetoric not based in facts in my ELA classroom was mentally taxing.  My job as an educator revolves around creating independent critical thinkers and if what’s dominating the news, social media, and policy was that orange dude--it would have been fucking irresponsible if I ignored it.  Especially in a class focused on rhetoric and logical fallacies.  

I had the blessing of my administration with my approach; nevertheless, I was putting a mark on my back knowing my values are showing on my sleeves and it was prone to parent complains about their child’s commie teacher.

I somehow came out unscathed.  

I attribute it to me making a point that I’m not trying to instill my values on them.  I’m attempting to give them ways to explore who they are rather than blindly listening to their parents and/or tv while telling a story of how I became the person I am today.  

I wrote about that in an earlier post during the pandemic where former students were asking me “how to feel” about the George Floyd protests.

My answer was always a version of “Figure that shit out yourself.  I’m going through it with you.”

That extends to my teaching.  I feel like I have a good understanding of my life  and the story I’m creating for myself and it took years after college.  I hope they’re asking themselves existential questions knowing they’ve watched plenty of people that lived the American Dream get shattered during the pandemic.  

As shitty as it may sound, I feel pretty comfortable keeping up with current events but not necessarily having to tread on thin ice when bringing into the classroom.  

I can definitely incorporate it; however, it’s a much different focus than the head on approach I was doing in English when I compared nonfiction to the fiction we’re reading.

There isn’t any fiction in what we’re doing right now.  I’m more concerned about them getting to the point where they can engage with art criticism as well as create their own art.

This is a comforting feeling knowing that stressful part of my life of trying to make sense of the world in my classroom may be over.  

I don’t necessarily need to bask in my anxiety.  Haha

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It’s very surreal how I got here.  But, I like to remind myself that I earned it based on my work ethic, pedagogy, and my unwillingness to compromise who i am. 

Some things that are stressing me out is facing one of my favorite mantras head on.

“Don’t assume people share the same values as you.”

Some of these students don’t give a shit about art and may never give a shit about art.  And that’s OK.

My first day spiel revolved around the fact that I’ve been relentlessly chasing my artistic side ever since earning my undergrad.

Art has always made me happy.  It was so silly of me to give it up.

I can’t assume that students will find happiness in art.  That realization somewhat took some of the excitement of my new position away--but at least it’s grounded in reality.

Now I just have to refocus my personal pursuits alongside the “professional” part of my life of being an educator.

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I had my first lecture concerning the principles of design.  It was such a good feeling knowing that this is pretty much the foundation for the rest of the year.  In fact…it’s the foundation for the rest of my career if I remain a photography teacher.

I’m really excited for what’s to come.  I inherited this program during the perfect time where people have faced changes and challenges head on so they’re receptive to my approach—whatever that approach ends up being.

There are definitely personal goals I’ve applied to myself during this transition that all revolve around the idea of “taking better care of myself.”

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Aside from my main career, I want to continue to foster the other creative parts in my life.

I want to do a much needed website revamp that gives a nice preview of who I am with links to my mixtapes, photography, art, and writing.

My primary audience is me; however, I do want to model it as my Q4 project to my students which centers around taking control of your online identity and using as a tool to network and be proactive with chasing their goals.

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I also want to start living a more analog life.

Doom scrolling seems engrained in me at this point—I have to remember how much happier I am when I’m productive and step away from the screen.

Memes, news, and even small talk with instagram friends will always be nice; however, it isn’t everything.

I disabled story replies when I felt my stress and anxiety increasing during my first week at school.  It was so liberating not to deal with distracting small talk.

I still like the idea of adding to my story simply because I enjoy how Instagram archives these moments rather than me flooding my very curated (red) theme. 💅

Engaging with my online audience is fun, too--but only when I’m in a good place to balance it in my personal life.

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Memes—or any account for that matter—that vie for your attention is frustrating in a meta sense because I don’t want to be part of the giving end of stroking someone’s ego through likes and attention.  

It will always be vacuous.  Some accounts get it, though.  Whitepeoplehumor’s kevin knows the opportunity he was given and is making the best of it without compromising and “selling out” in his own way.

That’s what I want.

I want to sell out in my own way and not have a single person’s opinion about me matter.

Maybe one day.

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I’m definitely an extrovert that feeds off other people’s energy.  That’s what made me fall in love with DJ’ing and realizing that this is a skill a lot of DJs lack.  A lot of DJs are terrible because they’re not humble and think they have the best taste of music while disregarding the crowd.

But I think I’ve changed during the quarantine.  I don’t necessarily want to please strangers and vibe off their energy.  I’m not sure I care that much.  Haha.

I’ve been reflecting on my life before the pandemic.  I was making $$$ while being able to balance my teaching and DJ life.  However, I’m not sure if that necessarily made me happier.  It allowed me to eat Sugarfish daily and other empty activities like that.  But, during the quarantine, I learned I reallllly liked the opportunity to do nothing on the weekend as a sort spiritual reset.

Weekend obligations definitely serve as a distraction from the stress I face during the week.  I rationalized this as a healthy distraction because it gets me PAID

But…not quite sure if it makes me happy especially since I’m sooo tired of ‘90s hip hop or even being forced to play EDM when I never fucking want to do that.

I wish I could get paid for my twitch sets.  Too bad the (bored) audience with nothing to do and no where to go is back to real life.

I thank the people that enjoyed my twitch sets every chance I get.  It really helped ground me during the pandemic.

In fact, Quarantine Fridays were definitely one of the happiest parts in my life where I was able to connect with friends, new and old, during those trying-ass-times.

It’s surreal to look back at how I spent 1.5 years in this one bedroom apartment with a shitload of plants.  

I’ll do a reflection post on what that meant to me later. <3

[soulwillower]

knowledge of such matters to people around me and raise concerns here and help too, as racism and oppression is not a pressing problem in my country but i want to understand and help to stop it. are there any resources where i can read up (in depth) about these matters? i really want to know and help more. thank you! 🐸anon hope nothing came across wrong here :)

(second part of this anon)

hi! thank you for reaching out and knowing we must do something. as a disclaimer, i am still learning as much as i can as a white woman in america. i that being said, here is what i can say: 

centuries of systematic oppression will not go away if people do not take action and talk, global structural change is needed.

remember that racism is prevalent everywhere in the world

 and just because it isn’t getting publicity/filmed/much talk, that doesn’t mean that it isn’t happening. 

also remember that as a white person, it is your own responsibility to learn and understand white privilege and systematic oppression, it is not poc’s responsibility to explain racism to you.

stop spreading the video of george floyd. instead, donate. say his name, talk about it, let it hurt you and fuel your fire but do not watch the video or spread it. 

this goes for all of the innocent black citizens who have been murdered. do not forget them.

have an honest discussion with yourself. 

acknowledge the ways you have been insensitive, complacent, or racist. nobody becomes “not racist.” we can only strive to be “anti-racist.”

follow and learn from BLACK EDUCATORS. and pay them for the work they’re doing. 

this diagram shows many types of overt and covert racism and it is very helpful to stay vigilant: 

here are some websites that have very good information. 

antiracism resources guide: x

more sources (including phone #s and scripts, gofundme’s, and education)

https://citizenshipandsocialjustice.com/2015/07/10/curriculum-for-white-americans-to-educate-themselves-on-race-and-racism/

https://blacklivesmatter.com

https://www.naacp.org

topics to search:

neocolonialism

white savior complex

internalized and externalized oppression

school-to-prison pipelines

reverse-racism 

weaponized whiteness

neoliberalism

complacency

films and shows to watch:

13th

American Son

Dear White People

See You Yesterday

Blackkklansman

When They See Us

If Beale Street Could Talk 

The Hate U Give

Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975

Clemency

Fruitvale Station

I Am Not Your Negro

Just Mercy

Selma

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

if you want to donate, here are just a few of the many places to do so:

george floyd memorial fund- https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd

minnesota freedom fund- https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/donate

i run with maud - justice for amaud arbery fundraiser - https://www.gofundme.com/f/i-run-with-maud

justice for breonna taylor petition and fundraiser- https://www.change.org/p/andy-beshear-justice-for-breonna-taylor

black visions collective- https://www.blackvisionsmn.org

NAACP- https://www.naacp.org

please, please add onto this!

[genre-urbanarts]

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[rememberebonyjanice]

There is deep work happening in the caption. Are you missing it because you haven't discerned the shift in technological relevance. This is a language. We are learning in community here. For the most part, we're doing it for free. Have you not seen it? A Full Curriculum: - Syllabus - Supplemental Learning Materials - Citation & References for further investigation - Intellectual Lineage (so you can know who authorized this) - The ancestors - My lived experience Are you missing it? ------ I hope not. I hope we aren't undervaluing the brilliant and beautiful work of the artist, the healers, the thinkers, the teachers, the preachers, the activists, the free girls, and the dreamers because a lot of us are doing deep work in the caption, the blog post, the link in the bio, the patreon, the community, the folk... b/c the institutions, previously deemed credible, can not hold or host the revolution. We have to bring it to you and do that ourselves. ----- Black Girl Mixtape is radical revolutionary work. It is the art of the past, the present, the afrofuture. It's happening already. We are doing it now. Your support of these efforts says, "I see you. This work is transformative. Show us the way." Visit blackgirlmixtape.com and learn more about this project and all the ways to support this movement. —— In the #BlackGirlMixtape monthly workshops we would the language in the photo and think it out until we got to a thought that resonated with our collective souls: (ie) Thinking abt enslaved folk running through water to escape their captors. Not just one story of running in water exists - but several. How did they do this impossible thing? Isn’t it (more) likely that they flew? Isn’t that (more) logical than escape by running in water? And if we don’t see running in water as miraculous, how abt we juxtapose it next to walking in water. Running IN water sounds even more impossible than walking ON water, yet we trust the story of the radical Blk messiah walking ON water. If a Blk man cld levitate above the water enough to walk ON water, surely some Blk folk from West Africa cld get up out of that water and take flight. Www.blackgirlmixtape.com (at Igbo Landing) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPCWmEilFM2/?utm_medium=tumblr

[wyattvsmusic]

J. Cole - KOD ALBUM REVIEW

4 Your Eyez Only was probably one of J. Cole’s most ambitious albums to date because it was the first concept type release he has put out. I thought the album was dope except for the track She’s Mine Pt 1. J. Cole has carved a lane for himself in mainstream hip hop and has put out many great projects (Friday Night Lights, Born Sinner, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, 4 Your Eyez Only). When J. Cole announced the title of his new album, I was very interested. In 2009, Tech N9ne put out an album called K.O.D, standing for King Of Darkness. I didn’t know why J. Cole was using Tech N9ne’s title and I thought that J. Cole was gonna go for some dark music on this album. Rappers share titles all the time though. Mick Jenkins and Lil Uzi Vert both have P’s & Q’s and Eminem and Lil Wayne both have songs called On Fire. I then found out that J. Cole’s KOD doesn’t stand for King Of Darkness but has three different meanings: Kids On Drugs, King Overdose, and Kill Our Demons. I then saw the cover which made me really wanna listen to the album. The cover makes the titles make a lot more sense after listening to the album. The Kids On Drugs at the bottom of the cover lead up to King Overdose (Cole wearing the crown and has his eyes white like he overdosed) and the skulls probably represent the demons. I’m probably totally wrong about that though, that’s the way I thought about it. KOD is different from anything that Cole has ever done. With the mixtapes, Sideline Story and Born Sinner, Cole was rapping about things happening in his life and his come up in hip hop. 2014 Forest Hills Drive mainly discussed his early life but also talked about other shit as well. 4YEO was told mainly from the perspective of his friend and was a tribute to his friend. KOD is really about people making the right decisions and the intro really set that up, telling the listener to choose wisely. Straight out the gate, the title track slaps you in the face with how hard it goes. The hook is so dope and Cole snaps on his verses especially that second verse, he was really flowing on that track. That might be my favorite Track because I really wasn’t expecting it to hit me like that. Photograph talked about how social media affects relationships. On the track, Cole says, “love today’s gone digital / and it’s messing with my health.” Cole features an alter ego of his called kiLL edward. Based on what he says on The Cut Off and FRIENDS, he represents the wrong decisions that Cole has made. I don’t wanna make this review sound redundant but on this entire album, J. Cole is speaking on real shit. He did that on his other albums but not for the entire album like KOD. He talks about drugs on tracks like KOD, The Cut Off, FRIENDS and Once An Addict. BRACKETS is the main example of Cole talking about real shit. He speaks on education with lyrics like, “Maybe 'cause the tax dollars that I make sure I send / Get spent hirin' some teachers that don't look like them / And the curriculum be tricking them, them dollars I spend / Got us learning about the heroes with the whitest of skin.” He also speaks on taxes with lyrics like, “If I'm givin' y'all this hard-earned bread, I wanna know / Better yet, let me decide, bitch, it's 2018 / Let me pick the things I'm funding from an app on my screen.” I could not agree more with the points that Cole makes on this song. BRACKETS is definitely a highlight on the album. J. Cole has always been a great storyteller and the story he tells on Once An Addict about his mom definitely relates to the title. That verse is fantastic. I wonder why he waited until this album to tell that story. Window Pain was dope as fuck. The way the beat came when Cole started rapping was dope. He also speaks on gangs with lyrics like, “N****s bang in the Ville, I always thought that shit was strange / How you claim blood or cuz when that was just a LA thing? / I don't mean no disrespect towards your set, no, I'm just sayin' / That it seem like for acceptance n****s will do anything.” 1985 was quite the closer to the album. This is almost like Everybody Dies part 2. Cole really came at these shitty rappers. I really do love this album. I don’t really have a problem with anything on this album. 4 Your Eyez Only was great but had like two cringeworthy lines on it. KOD doesn’t really have that. The songs ATM and Motiv8 have very similar hooks but that didn’t bother me too much. KOD is probably one of the more important albums that J. Cole has made because of the shit he’s talking about. This album was really good.

Fav Tracks: KOD, Photograph, The Cut Off, Kevin’s Heart, BRACKETS, Once An Addict, Window Pain, 1985

[nancykali]

Yo, so I went thru the tags and discovered the Stoncy+Kalancy poly ship (that I'm going to call Staloncy until a better name is suggested, if that's cool) and I was wondering what headcanons you have for them if Kali was to start going to school with them? Like Highs school!Staloncy stuff?

Staloncy is awesome! I also like to tag this ship with stevekalinancyjonathan just so everyone is clear who I’m all talking about 🙃

As for my headcanons for Kali going to school, I really hadn’t pictured that for her. The canon doesn’t give us any info about what schooling she’s had, if any, but we know she’s able to read, and I think she escaped the lab younger than El was when she escaped. She also mentioned living with “normal” people for a while, so she might have had some schooling then. But we don’t know what kind. Considering both she and El were kept prisoner in the lab, and escaped, Kali probably wouldn’t have been safe to go to a public school, just like El wasn’t safe to go, well, anywhere after the events of season 1. 

We’re not told in canon, but I think Kali looks to be four years older than El, so 17. So she’d likely be behind in her schooling regardless. I imagine if she was able to settle with Steve, Nancy, and Jonathan, she’d be in New York with them where Jonathan would go to college at NYU. I picture Nancy and Steve starting off at community college, and Kali would start earning her GED. Of course Kali is still hellbent on finding the remnants of the lab, so she would need some encouragement to also focus on school. Nancy would be the one to encourage her the most. Kali listens to Nancy the best, because Nancy was the easiest for Kali to trust after El. Nancy is also the best study buddy, because she’s the most patient with schoolwork, the most organized. Jonathan works better alone, and Steve is the least academic of them. Kali has the best street smarts, of course. 

I imagine Nancy would be the one to organize how and when they could study together, and Steve would come up with the reward system, much like we saw him do with Nancy in season 1. She denied his offer then, but she doesn’t anymore. ;)

Like, I love imagining the four of them going to the university library together. Steve and Kali have the most trouble focusing. Steve is making dirty jokes in low whispers to all of them in turn, seeing who he can get to laugh out loud first. Kali is trying to distract Nancy by making her see things out of the corner of her eye - usually a butterfly, but also Kali loves to make her gf and bfs imagine each other without clothes on in public. Nancy tries to keep them on track until at least Steve or Kali get one assignment at least halfway finished, but she’s suppressing smiles and giggles the whole time. Kali is sketching tattoo ideas in the margins of her notebook. Steve has to start jamming on his Walkman at some point, doing an air guitar at least once. He can’t stand silence for long, much like Jonathan. Jonathan’s the one to lean over and whisper in Nancy’s ear, suggesting they all go back to the stacks and make out. (I love the movie The Prince and Me, okay)

Okay so that’s not what you asked for. If Kali were to be inHawkins during Nancy’s and Jonathan’s senior year, let’s say if she caught upin summer school and started attending with them senior year, she’d be ahorrible influence and Nancy and Jonathan would love her even more for it.She’d have science (chemistry ideally) class with Jonathan and gym class withNancy.

Kali would get such a kick out of making other studentsimagine their chemistry projects were doing weird shit. And she’d let Jonathansee what she was doing. Kali wouldn’t be able to make his camera see thingsthat weren’t there, but she and him would still spend a lot of time togetherbrainstorming, because they both have creative minds, and a way of seeing theworld differently than most. Kali because she’s had to use her gift to survive,and is good at noticing what will make people react the way she wants. Thiscomplements Jonathan’s gift for photography perfectly, because he has a talentfor capturing people in certain moments. They love people watching, making upideas about the other students. Their favorite thing to do together is sitoutside before school starts, when everyone is milling about, Jonathan with hiscamera, and Kali picking out people and making them see different things soJonathan can get cool photos.

Nancy and Kali in gym class. These girls have the mostchemistry, and Kali knows it. Nancy can’t count how many times she’d walk intothe locker room to do a double take at Kali because Kali will make Nancy seeher naked for a split second and it always gets Nancy hot and bothered. Kalican’t only make people see things in real time, she can also make people seethings she wants to happen. (Yep, just made that up. Can’t stop me.) So yeah,she loves inspiring Nancy’s imagination in a very different way than Jonathan’s.

Also, Nancy loves helping Kali fix her makeup after gymclass. And Kali loves braiding or styling Nancy’s short hair for her beforeclass, and helping her comb it after they shower.

Kali skips with Steve a lot. Steve gets a job at themechanic’s shop in Hawkins during Nancy, Jonathan, and Kali’s senior year, andtakes night classes at the nearby community college. But the rare day he’s notworking early in the day, Kali will skip and meet Steve in the school parkinglot. Sometimes Jonathan is with her, sometimes Nancy, but they agree the threeof them can’t all skip together, it’d be too suspicious. So they have toalternate. Kali always asks Nancy or Jonathan if they’re okay with helping hercatch up with whatever classes she’s skipping, so she doesn’t overload them.They’re all on the same curriculum so it’s usually pretty easy for at least oneof them to skip with Steve once in a while.

Kali is a bit of a grease monkey herself (like she had to havelearned how to repair cars at some point, being on the run with her gang allthe time), so she and Steve talk a lot about cars and motorcycles. She lovesgetting her hands dirty in the mechanics garage with him. And she loves making himtake his shirt off while he works (which he usually doesn’t mind because it canbe hot work).

Kali helping Steve wash grease out of his hair because theystarted making out on the hood of a car he was supposed to be repairing.

Also, two words. Car sex. Only in Steve or Jonathan’s car ofcourse. Jonathan always brings the perfect mix tapes. Steve ends up having somany of them in his car he comes by Jonathan’s one day and is like “dude wheredo you keep all these? When did you make this one? Can you combine these songson a new mixtape cuz damn.”  I love Steveand Jonathan nerding out about music together. They have very different tastes butSteve can appreciate a greater variety than Jonathan can, and often tries newmusic out on his bf. Kali and Jonathan are the metalheads.

Making bonfires in the junkyard and getting crossfaded istheir favorite thing to do together at this time in their lives. Kali and Nancydancing in their underwear while an awesome mix tape blasts from Jonathan’s carstereo. All their hands getting sticky with roasted marshmallows. Steve usuallyends up using Jonathan as a pillow. Kali giving Nancy a piggy back ride just soshe can prove she can even though she’s the shorter of them. Jonathan takingpictures of them all and later he, Nancy, and Kali develop them together in theschool’s dark room and crack up together over the memories of that night.

Kali is the first one to dare take Jonathan’s camera fromhim and take pictures of him, on one of these wild nights in the junkyard. He’sso crossfaded he just laughs and laughs and none of them ever get tired ofthose pictures of him, his smile lit only by firelight. Nancy tries to get itframed but Jonathan refuses to let her.

I could keep going, but this is getting pretty long.