http://lizzieblog.com The Ramblings of an Oinseach Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:15:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My muse. That vile whore. She has spent the last few months strung out on Meth and giving out sexual favors at the Greyhound station. I have been unable to create anything. Anything! http://lizzieblog.com/?p=78 On this day, perhaps 22 years ago, I probably thought it was pretty cool and original that MTV played the video for the U2 song. No, it’s not the most overplayed song from War at all. I don’t count “Two Hearts Beat As One,” because I always managed ... http://lizzieblog.com/?p=79 Okay. We live in a world where the rare gems among the vast broken glass of television moronia such as Freaks and Geeks and TV Nation get cancelled, seemingly before they even debut. But the geniuses at ABC have decided that in a market already saturated by cheeky nobodys in ... http://lizzieblog.com/?p=77 For Lent, I am giving up swearing. I cannot invoke any of my favorite oaths. Perhaps what I shall miss the most is the word “jack@ss.” I love it so much, and since I work with adolescents, it works in so many situations and on so many ... http://lizzieblog.com/?p=76 I bragged and bragged and bragged. After spending the first few years of my teaching career catching every imaginable version of the common cold (I had an EAR INFECTION when I was 28), I seemed to have built up that legendary teacher immunity. One of the last sick days I ... http://lizzieblog.com/?p=75 When I was in 8th grade, I was horrified to realize that I was, in fact, the tallest person in the class. There was a kid in the other homeroom who was taller than I, but he had been held back twice. Sure, he was tall, but he ... http://lizzieblog.com/?p=74 The kids at school never cease to amaze, delight, and horrify. After all, isn’t that their job? After heated discussion on the senior Mr. Radley’s ecclesiastical shortcomings, I marveled at one group of sophomores at how much I enjoy them for their humor, their insight, their divergent opinions on what ... http://lizzieblog.com/?p=72 http://lizzieblog.com/?p=71 Sorry, reader. Listen to The Posies sing “Apology” and you’ll know how I feel for having betrayed you. I’ve been spending time on my literary untruths of late, so any non-fiction musings have gone the way of my guitar, my MFA, my revived acting career, and my many, ... http://lizzieblog.com/?p=70 The 1970 movie Scream and Scream Again freaked the hell out of me. I saw it while sick one Saturday afternoon at the tender age of 13 or so on WPXI’s afternoon chiller theater (Why don’ t they have those anymore?). It was your run-of-the mill political sci-fi ... http://lizzieblog.com/?p=67