Kyklops

Aside from some occasional, generally un -focused griping about my students' English ability (or lack thereof), I usually try to avoid m...

Some more photos today. (I'm swamped reading the atrocious English of my students, and can't seem to shake the feeling that, somehow...

I went for a Sunday drive with my family yesterday, and on the way home noticed that there were some interesting looking clouds in the sky. ...

If you had to pick a single performance of a single song that encapsulated everything that rock 'n' roll is about, you'd be har...

I've had a lot of students' homework to look at lately. I've got about 200 students, and they all write something for me most ev...

[ NOTE : This story originally appeared here .] "Get that thumb out of your mouth right now, Joey," his mother is scolding him. ...

For the few friends who still drop by here (where has everyone gone?), I've been really busy the last couple of weeks, and haven't h...

Restoring the hockey world (i.e. "the known universe") to its natural order, Canada won the World Hockey Championship yesterday. ...

This video beggars description (possibly NSFW). I'm at a loss for words... [Via Japan Probe .]

Two classic videos, both of which I've just seen for the first time. "Tales of Brave Ulysses" by Cream. Oh my, oh my. Young me...

Picking up where we left off with Callicles last week , we observed that many of his ideas were indicative of a certain mood which found var...

Bleh . I'm too tired to write anything, but I'm becoming addicted to posting stuff on my blog. What to do? Hmm ... I know! How about...

This is a special post for me and a landmark post for this blog. Why? Well, because the poorly shot, badly lit, crappy video you see below i...

Last week I mentioned that I would be going to the Hell known as Harmony Land, one of the many homes of the nefarious cat-character Kitty-c...

Sometimes I get homesick. I'm homesick. The Tragically Hip will help me through these troubling times. You think you know Canadians? Heh...

I won't be anywhere near a computer for the next couple of days, so here's a special Thursday version of our regular Friday videos. ...

It's Golden Week in Japan, which means I have four days off work beginning tomorrow. It also means that, following Japanese custom, my ...

Our loathing of dirt may be so great as to prevent our cleaning ourselves--"justifying" ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond G...

For the character of Callicles in the Platonic dialogue Gorgias , nomos and physis are, for the most part, opposed or contrary to each oth...

Maht , over at The Moon Topples , has announced the second installment of his Short Fiction Contest . The first one was, I believe, a big su...