the modern version of witch trials

[Poll #948913]

"The fact that my principal chose door #3 explains why I get called into his office so often," says my fake-big sister Lisa, who teaches English in rural Virginia. According to her, this isn't an isolated incident: there are many people in her town who worry about witches and who might be one.

She reacted to the principal's calling her into his office about whether she was a witch as you, I, and most sane people would probably be hard-pressed not to react: she laughed in his face. He was disapproving of this reaction, since he wanted to have a serious conversation. The end result was she had to modify how she taught The Crucible. What, exactly, was the cause of concern?

Her lesson plan included an interactive internet game in which her students were in a webquest which resulted in all of them being hung as witches, duplicating the manner of the Salem witch trials. Even though they've been taught explicitly how the witch trials worked, and also have read a book about them, her entire class were too stupid to come within miles of grasping the point of this exercise, and instead explained that her "glee" about the entire class being found to be witches meant that she was obviously a witch (since no one else would think hanging was funny).

Of course, this obviously means that the book has also missed its mark, and perhaps the school should look into requiring some alternative reading, such as Harold and the Purple Crayon.

Chibi Life on Mars Fic Summary #3

I started doodling this in a restaurant on the back of a receipt, and finished it a few days later at the Shamrock Café with shiroi_chi.

In a shocking change from previous scribbly chibi fic summaries, the dialogue is hand-written! Also in a shocking change, it's only the first scene of the story - oh no! A serial! I promise to update it promptly, though (or you could read the entire story yourself: my delicious bookmark. Warning: Dark! in the way that requires a !. Also, non-con and crack). (The warning is for the actual story - not my cartoon. This part is completely g-rated.)

( A Lot of Enclosed Spaces, Followed by Some Confusing Bits, part 1 )

Also, I made cookies for wax today and did the dishes, but she still looked like this:

BLIZZARD, and also BLIZZARD. and pollspam

Hey, also, I don't think I mentioned that it's basically been snowing for over 24 hours here, and for most of the middle of the day it was snowing like sideways in that "window/balcony is solid white" sort of way. But at no time during the blizzard has it been above freezing. It wasn't even sticking till noon or so but finally the sheer mass of snow just built up so it couldn't melt fast enough. OH YOU CRAZY WEATHER. I need a tag for "crazy fucking weather" or possibly "LOL global climate change" or something to that effect.

Meanwhile Veronica Mars is in severe danger of cancellation, or alternatively of s4 skipping 4 years into the future with her as an FBI agent.

And here are the movie posters and a ton of high-res stills from Becoming Jane (Jane Austen biopic starring Anne Hathaway) and they're gorgeous and I'm getting excited. Also, 4 stars from Empire and a very promising review. Yay! Time to make icons! In honour of that, and of my convincing aeslis to read Austen for the first time evah, a poll.

( pollspam about Austen novels, Becoming Jane, Veronica Mars, Toll House cookies, and bonus! Maggie Gyllenhaal, who surprised us by being in Stranger Than Fiction, where she was awesome and hot )