Another pestiferous meme...

[redneckgaijin]

(A) First, recommend to me: 1. a movie: 2. a book: 3. a musical artist, song, or album:
(B) Ask me three questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want.
(C) Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this post allowing your friends to ask you anything.

I need to put some brain time towards more creative memeology...

Comments

[omorka.livejournal.com]

A)

1) If you haven't ever seen The Impostors, you might give it a try. The humor may be a bit dry for your taste, though.

2) I have no idea what you have and haven't read. If you haven't read it already, Annie Sprinkle's Post-Porn Modernist was both amusing and thought-provoking for me.

3) I really am going to throw up my hands here, because I have no idea whatsoever what your musical taste is like. My usual suggestion in such cases is Weird Al, but I've already suggested two humor pieces. Hmm. How about "Wide Open" by Mojo Nixon?


B)

1) So how did you get into the comic-porn business, and what do you get out of it personally?

2) What's the sexiest piece of jewelry you've ever seen, and why was it sexy? ("Because of who was wearing it" doesn't count as an explanation.)

3) What aspects of the educational system as it existed when you went through it worked well for you? Which parts were totally broken, and how could they have been fixed, if at all?

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

1) I got into selling comic porn from the beginning of my career, as a comics reseller, when people requested a then-new title called, "Bondage Fairies." Working at Antarctic Press taught me that not only would porn comics generally sell enough to pay for themselves, they would continue selling long after their initial release- bringing in supplemental income which could be used to support general audience comics. When I struck out on my own, I made my first effort a porn comic for that purpose.

I don't get much financially out of comic porn. However, without it, I would never be able to afford to go to conventions; I wouldn't have met a truckload of artists; I have the satisfaction of putting into print material which deserved to be seen; and I have had the mixed pleasure and excruciating pain of writing and seeing to completion numerous comic scripts.

2) Jewelry holds no attachment on my mind whatever. Just now I cannot recall a single piece of jewelry except for that I have daily contact with. I likely wouldn't find jewelry sexy in and of itself anyway, except as a cleavage enhancer or as pornographic sculpture.

3) Well, let's see what worked:

* The existence of honors/gifted & talented programs, where they existed;

* Extracurricular activities, which provide both encouragement for students to come to school and learning opportunities and demonstration of benefits of learning outside school.

* Libraries. Without school libraries, kids like me would have had little or no reading material available after growing out of Dr. Seuss.

What was broken:

* Too many teachers who were, and this is putting it kindly, incompetent. In practice it proved completely impossible to get rid of said teachers; however, a teacher who might be competent, but who made waves, might not even last the entire school year.

* Art class, the dumping ground of incompetent teachers in my experience.

* The food, more than half of which was awful or even inedible, often cooked under appalling conditions. When will Marvin Zindler do a patrol of school cafeterias? (I have actually seen the roach baked into the biscuit.) And now the state has not only taken out the vending machines and shut down the high school "snack bars", it's prohibiting "seconds" in line, so you can no longer go back to get the one thing that was safe to eat. GRRRRR.

* Antiquated computer classes. My honors Computer II class, in 1992, still did all their work on Apple IIe.

* Discipline, the lack thereof. Those in charge of keeping it can't be bothered. Those who on no account should be allowed to, wield the paddle with religious fervor for the most trivial offenses. Detention, suspension and expulsion are no deterrent for the troublemakers, because all three are REWARDS to them.

* When G&T classes are not available, the practice of teaching down to the dumbest student, with the invariable result that a good eight weeks of the required curriculum is left untouched by the end of the year.

* Teaching of information which is just plain wrong. (One notable example consists of a Korean War vet (pilot) who insisted that WW2 ended in Europe with Zhukov driving down the main street of Berlin from one end and Patton from the other.)

I could probably think of more, but I need to get work done...