Taylor the Teacher

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Will Smith don’t gotta cuss in his raps
to sell records.
Well I do.
So fuck him and fuck you, too.
       Eminem, The Real Slim Shady

It simply needs no explanation.
Sorry to say fuck in a post, but if you […]

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When I was a kid I remember my dad would say to me that I could do such and such or make this or that decision when I was an “adult.” I can decide what house to buy when I’m an adult. I can choose my own bedtime when I’m an adult. Naturally, I asked […]

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Ken once asked me if I would write about Eminem, Tupac, and Ice Cube even if I didn’t care about Google. I know Ken, so I’m not insulted. [Besides, a glance at my Google pagerank should put that accusation to bed.] If anyone else asked me, I would be offended. Or I’d assume they didn’t […]

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Dear Baby Boom Generation:
This article, which I just discovered, explains a lot. It’s written by one of your own, a Boomer. In it, Mary Eberstat explains the reason we kids listen to such “vile” music nowadays. (I know, I’m 36, but you still treat me, and I still feel like a kid. I’m okay with […]

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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 […]

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UPDATE: Technorati should make a way where users can find out the average authority level that a particular blog links out to. Could be useful on both sides of the blog.
 
Eminem should use his MySpace page for a real blog. MySpace is for making connections with people, not selling CDs. Assuming this is Eminem’s […]

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Read about it here.
Cool.

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Sometimes when I listen to Eminem, I imagine my English classroom. That is, when I’m not busy backing that thing up. I hear his voice and think, “This man was in some English teacher’s hands at some point. How did she treat him? Did she recognize his talent? Was he just another name on […]

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I’ve already explained that I’m an English teacher who listens to Eminem. I’ve found out from Wikipedia that much greater minds than mine have already pointed out his lyrical mastery. “Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has praised Mathers for his “verbal energy” and for arousing popular interest in poetry and lyrics.” There you go.
 
Here are some […]

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I have to thank Eminem for the inspiration to write my first-ever true blog post. Or rather, “a shout out to my boi Eminem for being cool as shit.” Or some such. I can’t speak hip-hop. I know this makes me a geek, but this is how I talk. Try to look past it.
Everyone has […]

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