DWTS: The Women!
Here we go – it’s the womens turn tonight to show us what they’ve learned so far! Who will give the men a run for their money? Let’s find out!
Actress Debi Mazar and Maxim
mmm yummy! Lucky Debi – who actually danced back in the 80s on TV. Hahahah. Maxim finds her talking frustrating, and she thinks if she can salsa as fast as she can talk? It’ll be fabulous.
Salsa: 6,5,5 = 16
Oh my Debi was nervous! Len says that it’s all about the hips but it wasmissing – her feet were flat, but she has potential, with a lot of work. Bruno says “You can work those Bazooms like nobody else!” But her timing went, they lost it, but they have potential. CarriAnn says she lacked connection from her character to her moves – she was thinking too much and they could see it.
So, she thinks she can dance…
(and I’m so gonna get smacked for that title when she sees this one. 🙂 )
Peppermist loves to dance.
She loves it so much that she doesn’t even mind that she’s a poor lil white baby with her Daddy’s (lack of) rhythm coupled with her mama’s (lack of) gracefulness. Hey, I married a guy with great HAIR, not great DANCE MOVES! Some things are just more important when it comes to genepool, ya know?
Give her a song with a beat or happy feet and she’ll bebop all over the house – right up until I get my camera out, of course.
Because when the camera gets out – we get this:
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Cute – but not… exactly… dancing. She is an animated little darling though, isn’t she? ANYWAY – we were talking about dancing.
APPARENTLY – I am the worst mother in all the world because Peppermist has ALWAYS and FOREVER wanted to take dance lessons like her BFF Micky and it’s so CRUEL that i never let her do ANYTHING she wants SOB SNIFFLE SLAM. That last one is the door, naturally. This is also – how do they say it – not an actual representation of the event in question, but dramatized for television the internets. Yes.
She didn’t want to take regular dance though – and through some fabulously generous folks, (THANKS PAPA and B!) Peppermist is now spending two hours a week taking tap lessons – one hour “helping” the younger class so that she and her BFF can get ‘caught up’ on the basics, and a second hour with their age group, where they put it all into play.
Also, APPARENTLY, this means that you must have tap shoes, and MY idea of nailing old diet coke cans to her feet wasn’t good enough. I was just trying to be good and RECYCLE you know, but she had to shoot me down. She also insisted on using her own horded babysitting cash to pay for said shoes, so other than taking away all my fun, I really didn’t have a reason to say “no, do it MY way” which is also known as the “fun for MOM” way.
Psssht. Whatever.
So her shoes arrived before last week’s practice, and Peppermist, she was so giddy she let me take pictures. WILLINGLY. While she bemoaned the fact we had no hardwood to make the taps REALLY sing.
To that, I just have one thing to say:
Dear 70s construction crew that chose cheap ass linoleum vs. hardwood,
Thank you.
DWTS: The Men!
It’s here! Night one of a THREE NIGHT opening week. And we thought they were stretching it to 2 hours, and now it’s SIX? Good god people. Anyway – I don’t know that I’ll go indepth this way every week, but I was watching, and the keyboard was RIGHT HERE, so, you know, here we go.
Tonight – it’s all about the Men. And the MANBOOBS. Yes. You read that right. Wait till you see who SAID IT. This season? Already a hit!
Project Runway: Read all about it!
Ok, so the designers had to use newspapers as fabric, which meant a field trip to the LA Times, and dragging paper filled garbage bags so heavy the poor widdle designers can’t lift them back to the studio. Then there was designs, and catty comments and OMFG WHO CARES – Did you HEAR what TIM GUNN SAID?!
Ok – so – short story to get to the good stuff: Poor Johnny. Tim comes in to check on the designers, and tells him that it look like the Origami Cranes are attacking the dress that looked alright until he painted it blood red. Johnny scraps it, does a crossword puzzle and then slaps something else together. Johnny tells his model, and then the judges, a Tall Tale to explain the haphazard look he sent down the runway. He spun this little bit of drival about a steamer incident, and Nickalas chimes in and says that’s not what happened at all – tossed him right under the buss. Johnny wasn’t happy at all.
Education is GOLDEN.
You’re going to hit me after reading this, and then reading the title again. It’s ok though, I understand. And you know me, so you’ll undertand that I could not resist. I COULD NOT. Of course, I also didn’t try too hard either, but, well.. that’s me!
So the general gist of the below video is this: Teacher of Senior English (that’s 12 grade, 17 and 18 year olds, keep that in mind) slips in an essay question that has parents, teachers and the school board in an uproar. The question?
If you pushed your brother down, would you urinate in his mouth?
(And now the title makes sense…)
(Waits for jaws to be picked up…)
Here’s the story:
Alright, so – here’s the thing. The interview didn’t say anything about the teacher or her reasoning behind the question as it didn’t have to do with the book they were reading, only that the teacher was trying to stimulate the students into thinking creatively – and of course that there are more appropriate ways to stimulate the creativeness of students.
Me, I’d really like to know what the teacher has to say about the question, especially since she has a track record of encouraging her students to think outside the box creatively.
Don’t get me wrong – I can see why folks are upset, but as Walter Croncrite always said – we need to know the rest of the story before we get all judgy and jump to conclusions. Of all the comments on this page – only ONE approaches it intellectually:
Do you really think that this question is some sort of ridiculous, tourettic yelp from the “living hellscape that is [this teacher’s] mind?” It seems kind of obvious that this question has to be some sort of reference to an off-the-cuff remark a student made in class one day. That seems much more plausible to me than a teacher pulling a question like that out of nowhere. -J
Bravo, J, for thinking outside the box there! See, these are Seniors in high school – these aren’t elementary kids. These are students that can make up their own minds, yet still think farts are funny. (Because, you know, farts ARE funny – especially in the middle of the class when it’s not you, but the uber-prep cheerleader girl – preferably in the middle of her speech!) I’d be willing to bet at least one of the kids at some point has threatened about some poor schlub they felt wasn’t worth it, that they “wouldn’t pee on’em if they were on fire!”
My point is this: it had to come from somewhere, and I highly doubt it was just something random that the teacher threw in “From the hellscape of her mind” as the article writer states. The majority of her kids, it would seem, didn’t even blink – only one went to another teacher for help, and THAT teacher reported it. Now, should we be worried about the kids that didn’t blink? Or are then on to some inside classroom joke, that the other one missed? Doesn’t this teacher’s track record of having classrooms of excited and creative kids that know more than txt speak and LOLcat-isms mean more than one question that raises the brows?
There’s more to the story, but I doubt we’ll ever get to hear it. So chime in! What do you think of this, the question, the teacher, and what would you have done? Keep in mind that these aren’t kindergartners, these are seniors who have talked about bodily functions in great detail since they were like, four. And likely have siblings they’ve fartbombed and beat up and done things we as parents really wouldn’t care to know about, too. So setting your visions of MAH PRESHUSH INNOCENT BABIES aside – what do YOU think?
