I'm working up to it, juliets.
Right now, we're sort of battening down the hatches.
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- Tue Sep 11, 2018 7:07 pm
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- Mon Sep 10, 2018 10:57 pm
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No thanks.
I've already read DharmaHelper's diary.
I've already read DharmaHelper's diary.
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:22 pm
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Tenth grade.
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:04 pm
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I am the whale rider and a very happily married man.
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 8:25 pm
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- Mon Aug 27, 2018 10:08 pm
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I want to go to Canada. I love Rush, and I love sandwiches.
- Fri Aug 24, 2018 7:58 pm
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- Tue Jul 31, 2018 5:48 pm
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The paranoia is wrought by a constant attention given to the "media" (whatever passes for that these days); I submit that kidnappings and murders and what have you have always been a threat, but now you get to hear about every single one in every painful detail and see everyone's reaction every damn time.Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 3:01 pmI was just getting my haircut and there was a mother at the barber shop with her two young sons. While the older kid was getting his hair did, the younger brother was getting restless and wanted to go outside. It’s a nice day out there, I can’t blame him. But I heard his mother tell him, “If you go outside someone is going to snatch you up.” It brought me right back to this article.
I’m not a parent, I have no experience with bearing and raising children and don’t know what that’s like. But to me that brand of parenting seems more harmful than good. Of any of the myriad reasons you can give to keep a kid inside, that’s not one that I’d encourage. You’re instilling paranoia and anxiety in your kid by telling him that The World is out to get him, and by extension restrict his childhood independence. If we magnify that mindset, a kid will grow up afraid of what’s out there and remain dependent when they shouldn’t be. Maybe, i dunno, my stomach turned when I heard this woman I don’t know anything about say those words.
It's increased parental fear of letting their kids do something relatively harmless.
What you don't hear about as often?
Fatal car crashes- and parents don't mind driving their kids around, even though that is one of the biggest threats to their kids' lives (and some parents will even be on their cell phones during the drive!).
Prevalent irrational parental fear bothers me for precisely the same reason you have articulated: Children become adults, and they will be afraid adults, dependent adults, and weak adults.
"If you go outside, someone is going to snatch you up."
Who is someone?
99.9% of the world wants nothing to do with your kid, lady. Promise.
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:44 am
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- Sun Jul 29, 2018 7:54 pm
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For example: It's a cool day, and I see an older kid alone in a car. I would rather hang out and make sure the parent comes back rather than immediately get a license plate and call 911. That's an overreaction. I'd rather just let the other parent know, "Hey, it's cool- you did what you had to do and had another set of eyes looking out for you."
- Sun Jul 29, 2018 7:51 pm
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I think there's more to it than that.ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Sun Jul 29, 2018 7:42 pm I’d like to know what sort of childhoods the police officers involved in those cases had, but for them it’s probably more about being a bully than concern for the kids.
We live in a shame-fueled culture. People seem to think they get "points" for calling somebody out. The definition of "hero" is soiled.
Police are stuck in an unenviable middle ground here in which a lawsuit awaits their department at any turn (and even if they make the right calls).
Some parents are neglectful, and some are intentionally trying to harm their children. Pretending to forget them is one way they go about it.
It's a shitty climate, but refusing able children their independence and ability to interact with the world freely is going to cripple them long term.
- Sun Jul 29, 2018 7:36 pm
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PS- if you can't open the article because of a paywall, right click and open it in a private window.
- Sun Jul 29, 2018 7:23 pm
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Perhaps the best article I've read all day.
Jesus, my parents would be serving life in prison for what they let us "go through."
Jesus, my parents would be serving life in prison for what they let us "go through."
- Fri Jul 06, 2018 9:40 pm
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- Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:46 pm
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I'm taking her to a seafood restaurant. It's taken this long, but I've gotten her loving fish and tea and coffee.
Give me another fifteen years and I'll have her drinking whiskey.
- Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:28 pm
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Fifteen years in matrimony.
Do I get out for good behavior?
Do I get out for good behavior?
- Fri Jun 29, 2018 10:32 pm
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- Sun Jun 10, 2018 8:15 pm
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And I can roster him in fantasy.ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Sun Jun 10, 2018 8:11 pm That’s awesome. I think the Chargers are in a position take a step forward this year so hopefully he gets a spot on the roster and can contribute to it!
- Sun Jun 10, 2018 8:01 pm
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I don't have stats, but things went like this:juliets wrote: ↑Sun Jun 10, 2018 7:57 pmImpressive!Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Jun 10, 2018 7:15 pm My former student signed with the Los Angeles Chargers.
https://www.chargers.com/team/players-r ... z-newsome/
I used to joke with him that if he ever went pro, to remember me financially. Now is the time to pony up.
When he was our running back, we won a lot of games.
After he graduated, we lost a lot of games.
- Sun Jun 10, 2018 7:15 pm
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My former student signed with the Los Angeles Chargers.
https://www.chargers.com/team/players-r ... z-newsome/
I used to joke with him that if he ever went pro, to remember me financially. Now is the time to pony up.
https://www.chargers.com/team/players-r ... z-newsome/
I used to joke with him that if he ever went pro, to remember me financially. Now is the time to pony up.
- Mon May 14, 2018 5:17 pm
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For you number hounds here, I developed a BvP (Batter versus Pitcher) model in Excel. I'm excited to see how it performs tonight. It has colors and everything.
- Sat May 05, 2018 8:18 pm
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- Sat May 05, 2018 7:11 pm
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Chalk won. Meh.
- Sat May 05, 2018 5:59 pm
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Brown family picks for the Kentucky Derby:
Simon- Bolt d’Oro
Abigail- Good Magic
Ephraim- Firenze Fire
Eloh- Vino Rosso
Me- Audible
Simon- Bolt d’Oro
Abigail- Good Magic
Ephraim- Firenze Fire
Eloh- Vino Rosso
Me- Audible
- Wed Apr 18, 2018 10:15 am
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RIP Barbara Bush
- Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:35 pm
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Get her to spit in a tube. It could be a genetic thing.G-Man wrote: ↑Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:21 pm Email read receipts.
I have a long history with email read receipts, mostly negative. When asked to send one back to the person who sent me an email, I decline because, chances are, the sender also earmarked the email for a delivery receipt and should have gotten one.
One of my co-workers is now requesting a read receipt with every email she sends me. Not just for important tasks and questions, mind you. She is also requesting read receipts for one-sentence responses. My other co-worker has noticed this as well, so Ms. Read Receipt isn't just doing it to me.
What to do?
- Sat Apr 14, 2018 7:56 pm
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My five-year-old sits with me and I say to him, "What would you like me to teach you when you become a teenager?" (We had just had this conversation with his older two siblings).
He asks, "Are you a college teacher?"
"No."
"Then you can't help me."
He asks, "Are you a college teacher?"
"No."
"Then you can't help me."
- Thu Mar 15, 2018 8:55 pm
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Nope.DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Thu Mar 15, 2018 6:45 pmEnjoy that frivolous lawsuit I'm sure is comingEpignosis wrote: ↑Thu Mar 15, 2018 5:51 pm I didn't want to comment from a work computer, but I'm home now.
The comments section in the article are amusing to me. "I wonder if this would have happened to a white girl!" for example. The administrator who didn't let her ride home is black. Nothing was racially motivated.
By the way, the student in question is one of my students now. I am dying because, not only do I have three students I individually visit with in their homes after school, I was asked to take on a fourth class because of a teacher's medical leave. So she is now one of my students and I hope she comes to my funeral in May or June, whenever it is I give out.
At any rate, I detected nothing untoward about her dress, and I'm sure none of her other teachers did either. AND EVEN IF I DID, I wouldn't have bothered, and a lot of other teachers wouldn't either. Know how come? Because it's disruptive. It takes time out of my instruction to comment on a girl's outfit, call an administrator, send her to in-school-suspension (since that requires admin approval now), and document the incident in our online system. That shit takes time. You know who has time to bother with dress code violations? Administrators who have their own offices and don't have three or four classes a day to get through. I am not sacrificing the study of the American Romantics because of poor taste. Never mind the fact that I'm a male teacher, and there's a risk in someone of my sex commenting on an underage female's attire. That's the age we live in. If the dress code violation is egregious, that's different, and I'll deal with it by asking a female colleague on planning to address it, but a leg or shoulder is not going to stop my class. I've got too much to do and the administration already eats into our class time with fire / tornado / lockdown drills, assemblies, having us register students for next year's classes, etc.
I can guarantee you what happened was that when the school let out, so did her shoulders. That is a kind of shirt I see all the time and girls will often wear the shirt normally during the school day and when the bell rings, they figure the dress code doesn't apply and they slip the garment down.
What kills me was this happened on a Friday, and I can't understand why the administrator didn't just say, "Hey, listen. You're violating dress code by exposing your shoulders. Could you pull your top up the rest of the way? Thanks. Have a great weekend." How difficult was that? Is it any different from telling a sagging boy to pull up his pants?
Instead, he wouldn't let her ride home and this made national news. Way to go. People need to learn to pick their battles.
It'll blow over. This wasn't the first time we made the news.
- Thu Mar 15, 2018 5:51 pm
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I didn't want to comment from a work computer, but I'm home now.
The comments section in the article are amusing to me. "I wonder if this would have happened to a white girl!" for example. The administrator who didn't let her ride home is black. Nothing was racially motivated.
By the way, the student in question is one of my students now. I am dying because, not only do I have three students I individually visit with in their homes after school, I was asked to take on a fourth class because of a teacher's medical leave. So she is now one of my students and I hope she comes to my funeral in May or June, whenever it is I give out.
At any rate, I detected nothing untoward about her dress, and I'm sure none of her other teachers did either. AND EVEN IF I DID, I wouldn't have bothered, and a lot of other teachers wouldn't either. Know how come? Because it's disruptive. It takes time out of my instruction to comment on a girl's outfit, call an administrator, send her to in-school-suspension (since that requires admin approval now), and document the incident in our online system. That shit takes time. You know who has time to bother with dress code violations? Administrators who have their own offices and don't have three or four classes a day to get through. I am not sacrificing the study of the American Romantics because of poor taste. Never mind the fact that I'm a male teacher, and there's a risk in someone of my sex commenting on an underage female's attire. That's the age we live in. If the dress code violation is egregious, that's different, and I'll deal with it by asking a female colleague on planning to address it, but a leg or shoulder is not going to stop my class. I've got too much to do and the administration already eats into our class time with fire / tornado / lockdown drills, assemblies, having us register students for next year's classes, etc.
I can guarantee you what happened was that when the school let out, so did her shoulders. That is a kind of shirt I see all the time and girls will often wear the shirt normally during the school day and when the bell rings, they figure the dress code doesn't apply and they slip the garment down.
What kills me was this happened on a Friday, and I can't understand why the administrator didn't just say, "Hey, listen. You're violating dress code by exposing your shoulders. Could you pull your top up the rest of the way? Thanks. Have a great weekend." How difficult was that? Is it any different from telling a sagging boy to pull up his pants?
Instead, he wouldn't let her ride home and this made national news. Way to go. People need to learn to pick their battles.
The comments section in the article are amusing to me. "I wonder if this would have happened to a white girl!" for example. The administrator who didn't let her ride home is black. Nothing was racially motivated.
By the way, the student in question is one of my students now. I am dying because, not only do I have three students I individually visit with in their homes after school, I was asked to take on a fourth class because of a teacher's medical leave. So she is now one of my students and I hope she comes to my funeral in May or June, whenever it is I give out.
At any rate, I detected nothing untoward about her dress, and I'm sure none of her other teachers did either. AND EVEN IF I DID, I wouldn't have bothered, and a lot of other teachers wouldn't either. Know how come? Because it's disruptive. It takes time out of my instruction to comment on a girl's outfit, call an administrator, send her to in-school-suspension (since that requires admin approval now), and document the incident in our online system. That shit takes time. You know who has time to bother with dress code violations? Administrators who have their own offices and don't have three or four classes a day to get through. I am not sacrificing the study of the American Romantics because of poor taste. Never mind the fact that I'm a male teacher, and there's a risk in someone of my sex commenting on an underage female's attire. That's the age we live in. If the dress code violation is egregious, that's different, and I'll deal with it by asking a female colleague on planning to address it, but a leg or shoulder is not going to stop my class. I've got too much to do and the administration already eats into our class time with fire / tornado / lockdown drills, assemblies, having us register students for next year's classes, etc.
I can guarantee you what happened was that when the school let out, so did her shoulders. That is a kind of shirt I see all the time and girls will often wear the shirt normally during the school day and when the bell rings, they figure the dress code doesn't apply and they slip the garment down.
What kills me was this happened on a Friday, and I can't understand why the administrator didn't just say, "Hey, listen. You're violating dress code by exposing your shoulders. Could you pull your top up the rest of the way? Thanks. Have a great weekend." How difficult was that? Is it any different from telling a sagging boy to pull up his pants?
Instead, he wouldn't let her ride home and this made national news. Way to go. People need to learn to pick their battles.
- Thu Mar 15, 2018 1:28 am
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- Sat Mar 10, 2018 4:50 pm
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- Wed Feb 21, 2018 9:58 am
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RIP Billy Graham
- Wed Feb 14, 2018 8:57 pm
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How crazy is it that I wrote a story (beginning of a book I never finished, actually) about a school shooter setting off the fire alarm before wreaking havoc.
I had told my wife about my unfinished story just last night.
I had told my wife about my unfinished story just last night.
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 8:59 pm
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That mask on King Hiss is probably the most frightening thing there. Well done! It reminds me of those masks Crusader kings wore.
Modulok was an amazing piece. There's been a MOTU movie in the works for like 15 years now but it keeps getting tabled or shuffled to new writers. I would not mind at all if this artist got hired to work on the project. Bravo.
Modulok was an amazing piece. There's been a MOTU movie in the works for like 15 years now but it keeps getting tabled or shuffled to new writers. I would not mind at all if this artist got hired to work on the project. Bravo.
- Sun Feb 04, 2018 10:29 pm
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Gene Steratore
My second cousin.
My second cousin.
- Thu Dec 14, 2017 10:55 pm
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They'd have to ask you how to spell "Turd" first.
- Thu Dec 14, 2017 8:41 pm
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Teaching feels like hosting Celebrity Jeopardy.
"You know what?" *Rips up questions* "Just write a number. Any number. You could write a two. Or perhaps a three. Maybe even a four? Any number."
"You know what?" *Rips up questions* "Just write a number. Any number. You could write a two. Or perhaps a three. Maybe even a four? Any number."
- Thu Dec 14, 2017 8:07 pm
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I have a student who habitually copies and pastes things from the Internet and turns it in. No, I never give her credit for any of it. She just Googles whatever questions I pose and goes from there. No matter how many times I've addressed her, she insists on doing it.
Today I caught her searching, "How does this piece make you as the reader feel?"
The district says it's my job to get her to pass a state standardized test next month.
What the fuck am I supposed to do with this?
Today I caught her searching, "How does this piece make you as the reader feel?"
The district says it's my job to get her to pass a state standardized test next month.
What the fuck am I supposed to do with this?
- Fri Nov 10, 2017 5:26 pm
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I greeted a former student of mine who is now a senior. She was wearing scrubs. It was first thing in the morning, and I was putting my lunch in another teacher's refrigerator. She came in and dropped off her things. While I was making small talk with her she took off her pants. Nothing underneath but skin and little yellow panties.
Apparently she'd put her pants on backwards that morning, and chose that particular moment to remedy the situation.
Remember that this is the lot that will be graduating high school in about six more months.
Apparently she'd put her pants on backwards that morning, and chose that particular moment to remedy the situation.
Remember that this is the lot that will be graduating high school in about six more months.
- Sun Oct 01, 2017 12:45 am
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- Wed Sep 13, 2017 3:52 pm
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The latter, although if I can work out potentially game-breaking strategies, it could move into more serious territory.
- Sat Sep 09, 2017 9:32 pm
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I have invented a board game prototype.
Our family played it tonight. I'd say it's good stuff.
It's a sci-fi game that can be as cooperative or as competitive as you like depending on the number of players you have.
We have 5 players, so we ran a 4 vs 1. We only got 30 minutes in due to bedtimes, but so far, I think it's great.
Our family played it tonight. I'd say it's good stuff.
It's a sci-fi game that can be as cooperative or as competitive as you like depending on the number of players you have.
We have 5 players, so we ran a 4 vs 1. We only got 30 minutes in due to bedtimes, but so far, I think it's great.
- Fri Sep 01, 2017 8:14 pm
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My commute isn't long, so I only got hear a few songs, but...
The radio display in the car was advertising a number people can call to send money to Harvey victims.
The musical selections during this stretch seemed to me increasingly...troll-like.
"I Can See for Miles" by...not The Who, but Styx (named after the river of the dead)
"The Rain Song" by Led Zeppelin.
Followed by "Born on the Bayou" by CCR.
The radio display in the car was advertising a number people can call to send money to Harvey victims.
The musical selections during this stretch seemed to me increasingly...troll-like.
"I Can See for Miles" by...not The Who, but Styx (named after the river of the dead)
"The Rain Song" by Led Zeppelin.
Followed by "Born on the Bayou" by CCR.
- Mon Aug 28, 2017 6:04 pm
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My main microphone is a MXL 880. My secondary microphone is a Shure SM58.
- Thu Aug 24, 2017 11:06 pm
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In a nutshell:
They told us not to teach grammar because it isn't tested by the state.
You know what does test grammar?
The ACT.
Th ACT scores tanked last year.
Well duh.
So now if we don't get ACT scores up, we're in trouble.
It's the usual bullshit.
- Tue Aug 22, 2017 10:58 pm
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Two days back and I'm ready to throw my hands up.
Our county leadership is so results oriented they can't recognize a good process when they see one.
Our county leadership is so results oriented they can't recognize a good process when they see one.
- Mon Aug 21, 2017 10:04 pm
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The street lights came on for a minute here, and some crickets chirped. That was about it. And I'm in NC.
4% of the sun is pretty bright.
4% of the sun is pretty bright.
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:16 pm
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For those who don't know, Simon is autistic.
Or something like that. Autism is a funny spectrum.
Today he hurt his sister accidentally and then laughed at her when she yelled at him.
We, being the parents we are, laid into him about that sort of behavior. I was ready to take away privileges.
After spending almost half an hour with him, I finally understood why Simon was laughing.
He wasn't laughing at his sister- it was just that her yelling at him reminded him of a character from a recent show he saw on Netflix in which a female character yells at things and is apparently really, really funny.
Even when we mentioned the show to his sister (who was still half in tears), she started laughing.
I didn't punish him.
++++
In a related story, we are in the midst of a game of Risk.
After half the competitors went to bed, I showed Simon a live performance of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears, a song he likes. I figured he'd like to see the players behind the song.
He said, "They're just copying what we're trying to do tonight. Copycats."
Hmm?
It took me a moment.
Everybody wants to rule the world.
Risk.
I love the way this kid thinks.
Ten years old, and I'm only beginning to unravel his process.
Maybe everybody wants to rule the world.
I just want to understand his.
Or something like that. Autism is a funny spectrum.
Today he hurt his sister accidentally and then laughed at her when she yelled at him.
We, being the parents we are, laid into him about that sort of behavior. I was ready to take away privileges.
After spending almost half an hour with him, I finally understood why Simon was laughing.
He wasn't laughing at his sister- it was just that her yelling at him reminded him of a character from a recent show he saw on Netflix in which a female character yells at things and is apparently really, really funny.
Even when we mentioned the show to his sister (who was still half in tears), she started laughing.
I didn't punish him.
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In a related story, we are in the midst of a game of Risk.
After half the competitors went to bed, I showed Simon a live performance of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears, a song he likes. I figured he'd like to see the players behind the song.
He said, "They're just copying what we're trying to do tonight. Copycats."
Hmm?
It took me a moment.
Everybody wants to rule the world.
Risk.
I love the way this kid thinks.
Ten years old, and I'm only beginning to unravel his process.
Maybe everybody wants to rule the world.
I just want to understand his.
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 11:35 pm
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- Sat Aug 12, 2017 3:58 pm
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Yep. It was a thing to hear.