I realize I haven’t shared this video on The Substack, thanks to wife Karen for reminding me of that just now. Guess I’m not the branding and placement poster boy! But I gotta cop onto some of that loathsome horn tooting. Thanks, Frank McCormick and Paul Rossi. Not a moment went by during the recording when I wasn’t totally freaked and honored to be included on your channel. You’re stand-up guys. By the way my essay, It Doesn’t Fit The Narrative, kind of my short-hand-flip-through the rise of Iron Equity™ at 3,200 words or whatever, has never fit the narrative. That much is true. But ya know what? you do get to a point with these journo types at NYTimes and Fox and Substack giants where you go, “well fuck it, then,” and you stop trying to sell it. Wait, I’m not whining, I’m not whinging, either! Well okay, yes I am, but interspersed with great peaks and valleys and meadows of good humor. Right now, I’m ebullient. Some cash-money would make that ebullience a little more tolerable though, aight? It just would, it would .. ‘Cause like, $500,000 lost in teacher wages is quite a little ding, isn’t it? that could even pay off my kids’ college debts and jet us out of the country for a spin around — I don’t know — some hot island surrounded by bubbling blue waves. I would like to not have the sword of fucking Damocles loans swinging over our heads till we die, even though most people do. “He dies that pays all debts,” right? but I just don’t want to be one sickness or procedure away from indigence by hospital. You’re supposed to have like a year off your working stiff life before you’re capsized by cancer and die, right? Right? Even though my dad got like two weeks off his working life then tipped over from a heart attack in the lovely gardens of Edina, Minnesota. Anyway, I’ll get out of here because I’ve roamed far afield. Paul Rossi, Frank McCormick, I tip my bald-ass pate to you gentlemen. Please everybody, click Subscribe to their YouTube, Chalkboard Heresy. https://youtube.com/c/ChalkboardHeresy
Watch super-patient & sometime EMDR 5th dan belt holder / podcaster @BenjaminABoyce’s show with them. I’m only pasting the URL to keep my own shit prominent. Gotta do something selfish for my ill-spent brand!
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjwnb6P_6v7AhX6IDQIHVAvBq8QtwJ6BAgcEAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DjC6MuwYs8Es&usg=AOvVaw1MeZ-S5i798Vc4IzM73pBy
My one desire at this late stage of Reverse Reparations from Teaching <sniff!> would be to join or start a Teachers’ Lounge of real talk about the business. Something like, “It Could Only Happen At School.”
See ya!
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