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I must apologize to my thousands couple of readers that I feel another Eminem post coming. Maybe two. I’m not doing this on purpose. I’ve tried to stop. He’s very interesting.
I was writing about an article I read, and I was thinking that Eminem is like the midwife of my generation. I went to copy and paste some of his lyrics from a lyrics website. While I was there, that site asked me if I wanted Hillary Clinton to be my next president.
I laughed out loud.
“My name is, my name is, my name is, Slim Shady.”
What do you think?
11 responses so far ↓
1 dirt clustit // Oct 2, 2007 at 11:05 pm
I think she is daring enough to not conform just because she is expected to. I for one can see the kindred spirits of Eminem and Hillary Clinton
2 dirt clustit // Oct 2, 2007 at 11:10 pm
can you imagine the two of them running on the same ticket for the presidency?
3 ken // Oct 3, 2007 at 12:18 am
So what’s the fascination with Eminem?
Perhaps I am showing my age, but alas, we are the same age.
4 Taylor // Oct 3, 2007 at 12:22 am
You and I are the same age? Because Eminem and I are the same age. I can’t explain the fascination. Just like to listen, and anything I listen to usually makes me think. Plus I have a google alert set up for Eminem and I just found out about an old article written about him that is very interesting.
5 Taylor // Oct 3, 2007 at 12:23 am
It probably comes off as more of a fascination than it is. It’s really just coincidence.
6 ken // Oct 3, 2007 at 12:31 am
36? Think so.
T or F: Marshal doesn’t like his mommy.
If T, why?
7 Taylor // Oct 3, 2007 at 12:37 am
You do ask why a lot. Why?
He doesn’t like his mommy. Are you really asking?
8 ken // Oct 3, 2007 at 12:44 am
I saw a piece about his sour relationship w/ his mother some time ago on some unspecified news channel.
My question is surely not seeking an answer, but your fanliness for Eminem is similar to my high school fanliness of REM.
Oh, and about gangs…we have a ‘gang’ at our high school called G-Maf.
The G stands for Guys.
They are in 8th grade. Three of them are still unable to ride to roller coasters at most amusement parks.
They have no color. No code. No initiation. They get dumped off at the mall by their parents.
They may very well be a highly organized cabal, but current analysis shows only 6 active members.
Not sure where your school is, but as one of my students once said, “We live in the slums of Erdenheim.”
9 Taylor // Oct 3, 2007 at 1:04 am
Well, we have “gang” members who were arrested (7 of them) at school for “jumping in” a new member in the school’s bathroom. Upon their arrest, several of them, two of which I taught as freshmen, were connected with a string of robberies from the summer, a hold-up at gunpoint, and a kidnapping which resulted in their beating a man for hours.
10 ken // Oct 3, 2007 at 1:21 am
Not sure what to say. It’s unfortunate that there are children (wow, they really are children) engaged in such deplorable behavior.
I’m not so narrow-minded as to act utterly shocked; I do live in America and just outside of Philadelphia (currently leading all major metropolitan areas in homicides) and prior to teaching at Springfield, I taught in an area of Philadelphia that saw its share of violence.
From what I’ve gleaned from your blog thus far, it sure seems that your school administration is not helping to address the needs of the students, but I wonder what leads these young people to these unfortunate places in their lives.
Sometimes I think that some students would benefit from sleepover school; that way, they would not have to return to an environment disconnected with the norms of society.
Of course, as I typed that last sentence, I realized that schools do their fair share of exacerbating a problem by taking on the affectation of an ostrich.
I’d love to find the solution, solve education’s Rubik’s Cube, and make the school environment smooth, colorful, and marvelously diverse, but I keep realizing that change is a collaborative effort and no one teacher, guidance counselor, or well-intentioned administrator can do it alone.
11 Taylor // Oct 3, 2007 at 5:40 pm
You forgot to mention parents and community members. I think they’re a big part of this that is missing, or when present are part of the problem.
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