a 2nd week begins, a 1st Monday

John 5, The Art of Malice

A really cool album title. It's a kind of "instrumental autobiography.''

If you haven't heard of John 5, by the way, he has played with Rob Halford, the DLR Band with David Lee Roth, Leah Andreone, and about a thousand others.

Oh, and he went from "John Lowery" to "John 5" when he joined Marilyn Manson.

Tremendously talented guy.

Also, Cedric says he's going to dress up like that for Halloween.

My kids rule.

As for class, we went over course outlines, and there is officially no excuse for a student not to know what is going on.

Juniors had some good discussion about Frankenstein's relevance in 2010, William the Catalyst, the "implausible" and the plausible within the narrative, and Sonya's horrible attempted thesis.

Sophomores got all their Outside Reading information. Capitalized for emphasis.

It was good.

Be cool.