Spam Poetry

The Proposition

(A poem created from spam comments posted on my class website. Some punctuation added, but all text was posted on blog, but spammers deserve neither citation nor quotation, and they get neither.) 

Mammoth account you possess.

It offers a nice unique twist on things.

A great deal of visitors.

How do you promote it?

advertise it?

get traffic to it?

I guess having something authentic or substantial to say

is the most important factor.

I’d come to accede with you here

see eye to eye with you here.

play ball with you on this.

Which is not something I typically do.

I really like reading a post that will make people think

dead text 

imply dry enterprise otherwise 

arise back night,

tear above safety 

I’d come to comply with you on this.

Thanks for allowing me to speak my mind!

Thanks for allowing me to speak my mind.

Thanks for allowing me to speak my mind.

Not above begging for my students...

If you need some last-minute tax-deductible giving, feel free to give to my currently open Donor's Choose projects for my class.  On behalf of my students, thanks!!

Jason's Christmas Song Rule #1:

I Can Teach a Man to Fish, but I Need Help Buying Bait

Guest editorial on Ace Weekly's blog. If you are a teacher or would like to help teachers, you need to check out DonorsChoose.org (link in the editorial).

Just needed to post something...so ashamed.

Not Pomplamoose's best musical effort, but I like Pomplamoose, Ben Folds, and Nick Hornby. Put them in a room together, and I'm for it.

Link to Youtube

US-Slovenia commentary and Preview of US-Algeria

The next in my series of columns on the US World Cup journey for
The Winchester Sun. The Sports Editor of the Danville Advocate-Messenger has also expressed interest in running these columns now.

Unfortunately, there are a couple of editorial typos - one omitting a "so" in my paragraph on Onyewu and a fused sentence resulting from combining two of my sentences in the paragraph beginning "Once again," Not that I'm picky.

Enjoy.

Fit to Be Tied (World Cup Commentary)

I've written a few pieces for our local paper The Winchester Sun giving commentary on US soccer matches while explaining a few aspects of soccer to the folks of Winchester, who do not tend to be soccer fans. This is my latest piece on the recent US-England tie.