Epiphany in Baltimore

The Musings of a High School English teacher in Baltimore City

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Epiphany in Baltimore: Baltimore, MD; Just a guy teaching English and coaching baseball in the city. Early 30s. Lover of good music, films, theater, television, and literature. I've been blogging since 2001.

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▼ 2011 (40)
- ▼ December (1)
  - The BCPSS teacher contract, one year later
- ► November (18)
- ► October (1)
  - Public Jeer to MARC train for raising group rates
- ► September (1)
  - Empowering my 9th graders
- ► August (3)
- ► July (4)
- ► June (2)
  - Greek and Latin roots
  - Admin I
- ► May (1)
  - LostNMissing, Inc: Rodney Goggins, 20 Missing Fire...
- ► March (1)
  - Rain, rain go away
- ► February (3)
- ► January (5)

► 2010 (154)
- ► December (6)
- ► November (13)
- ► October (19)
- ► September (10)
- ► August (12)
- ► July (11)
- ► June (12)
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- ► January (24)

► 2009 (91)
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- ► February (11)
- ► January (6)

► 2008 (167)
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- ► June (17)
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- ► March (22)
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- ► January (26)

► 2007 (337)
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► 2006 (530)
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My Blog List

MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com

Brewers, Marcum Avoid Arbitration - The Brewers announced that they avoided arbitration with Shaun Marcum, agreeing to a one-year deal for 2012. Turner Gary Sports represents the right-hander. ...
7 minutes ago
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

The Trump Endorsement, Ctd - Philip Klein believes that yesterday's Trump event was a "colossal blunder" that will haunt Romney: [S]eriously, Romney wants to be president and he’s so a...
33 minutes ago
Hollywood Elsewhere

Memphis Mood Again - My first significant activity after returning to Santa Barbara yesterday was a second viewing of Amy Berg's West of Memphis, a tightly compelling and super...
1 hour ago
Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Lost Battalion - It's yours... [image: Email this Article] [image: Add to digg] [image: Add to Reddit] [image: Add to Twitter] [image: Add to del.icio.us] [image: Add to S...
2 hours ago
InsideEd

City principal pay below average - Today, I wrote a story about principal pay in the city, which I was surprised to find was below the average for the state, and that of the other large, surro...
4 hours ago
Malnurtured Snay

How My New Year’s Resolution is Doing - So – my resolution this year was not to buy any books. Or, rather, not to buy any books for myself. Gifts are okay. Since January is over, here’s where I s...
6 hours ago
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right

Obama's Magic Number? 150,000 Jobs Per Month - Reports that more than 150,000 jobs have been created can be seen as good news for President Obama's re-election prospects.
8 hours ago
Folger SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY

“I must begin with rudiments of art… - To teach you gamut in a briefer sort,” The Taming of the Shrew 3.1 Recently, I was embroiled in a discussion of whether or not younger students could “hand...
23 hours ago
Roger Ebert's Journal

Happy days are here again - For me the best news produced by the Florida primary was Newt Gingrich's vow to take his fight all the way to the floor of this year's Republican convention....
23 hours ago
Baltimore Crime

Dangerous Night in Baltimore, Towson Mall Killing Arrest - A surprisingly violent night considering the recent downturn in violence. 6 people were shot, including two fatally. One of the deceased has been identified ...
1 day ago
narrowcast

Monthly Report: December Albums - *1. Robin Thicke - Love After War* I already put this pretty high in my year-end list but obviously I'm still digging into it, even if *Something Else* wi...
1 day ago
Bluebird's Classroom

Didn't Like You Then, But I Love You Now - Middle Schoolers are just plain strange. As part of our school-wide positive behavior support program (I'm not writing that again, so you'll have to deal w...
1 day ago
Surviving the System

Acceptance #3 - leaving tributesSo yesterday HSS received her third acceptance letter, or email, or really a web-link to an acceptance page. University of Maryland has a g...
2 days ago
The Challenge to Care in Charm City

Fixing the American Education System is Easy as Pie….Or Is It? - In his Op-Ed column for The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof pushes the envelope by suggesting that “good teachers” are the most important factor the adv...
2 days ago
huffenglish.com

Innovation Takes Good Leadership - When I was working on my undergrad degree in English Education, one of the texts I was required to read (and which I highly recommend) was Leila Christenbu...
4 days ago
PostSecret

Sunday Secrets - PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. PostSecret, 13345 Copper...
5 days ago
Baltimore InnerSpace

Exelon in Westport - *Give it up, Downtown Partnership -* *Put Exelon in Westport* *Patrick Turner's proposed Westport development on the Middle Branch, near the Baltimore-Washi...
6 days ago
But Wait! There's More...

You can’t carry it with you if you want to survive** - Okay, it’s like this: I lost control of my classroom. Not just for five minutes, not just for five days, not even just five weeks, but for five months. Yea...
1 week ago
Mildly Melancholy

A successful week - This past week was a really busy one, but in a good way. Friday evening through Monday afternoon, I shot a convention. A few months ago, I got the referral...
1 week ago
Baltimoremick.com

Most Entertaining Mashup Ever (This Month.) - HT: AOTS
2 weeks ago
Mr. B-G's English Blog

Using Creative Commons Images from Flickr - I recently began using the screen capture program Screencast-O-Matic to create video tutorials for my students. Below is one I made about using Creative Co...
3 weeks ago
that damn redhead

Revisiting my 2011 tech predictions — FREE fake Jamaican accent included, mon! - One thing that annoys the heck out of me about the end of every year is that starting in December, the entire blogosphere becomes Miss Cleo and obnoxiously...
4 weeks ago
Health, Interrupted

An Update... - At the fundraiser Trying hard to function in spite of my foul mood, I took Izzy to Whole Foods this morning. I was hungry and she needed a walk. The pla...
5 weeks ago
Baltimore Crime Beat

Crime Beat has moved - We've moved!The Crime Beat is now on a new platform. Our hold home is still available if you want to reminisce, but for new features please come over to the ...
1 month ago
supafine

Well! Another bust - Thanks to a painful stretch of sleep deprivation and then a stretch of not giving a shit, I hereby declare this Nablopomo a bust. AGAIN. I like traditions....
1 month ago
Baltimore Diary

All Aboard! - The Conductor: The thing about trains... it doesn't matter where they're going. What matters is deciding to get on. —The Polar Express (2004) ---------------...
2 months ago
First and 30

What I'm Reading - Note to self: There’s no such thing as “light” reading about working mothers. So, after Jezebel did this piece, I decided to buy the book. If you know me,...
2 months ago
The Smallest Twine

Graphing Stories and My Many Boyfriends - Today I taught the graphing stories lesson to four classes, and it was incredibly interesting to see how each class reacted to the lesson. It was actually ...
2 months ago
Brilliant and Unloved

- I'm going to be brave here, and leave this public. Who knows what kind of spam will appear! I spent some time today looking at videos of the Occupy Wall St...
4 months ago
PsychoPhil

links for 2011-07-19 - Rural police target possession of home-brew ingredients: Crime | Alaska news at adn.com (tags: beer brewing homebrew politics)
6 months ago
Live from Bawlmer

We've Moved. - This blog has moved to charissacosta.com. See ya on the flip side!
7 months ago
Dining@Large

Dining@Large is closed - Here is a link to Baltimore Diner...
7 months ago
PhiLLy RoLL

It's Starting to Feel Like Spring - I am tired of life always feeling so busy that I can't keep up. And by keep up, I mean, get enough sleep and not have the apartment look like a tornado just...
9 months ago
Stuff White People Like

Adorn your wall with this really cool poster. - Since Whiter Shades of Pale came out back in November, a lot of people have voiced how much they love the book’s scarily accurate line drawings, which call...
1 year ago
radconpu83

Reflections on 9/11 after returning from Mass - The “anniversary” of the September 11th attacks came again. I recalled all that happened from my point of view. The surreal hours in the classroom as t...
1 year ago
Blogtimore, Hon

Before & After 2010: Submit Your Story and Win! - [image: Before and After 2010 blue]We’ve been waiting all year for this day to come! Summer is just around the corner, and with it comes our annual Befor...
1 year ago
avt

You can go home - ...kind of. I hadn't been home since September, and I wasn't home for 10 minutes before I walked out to the backyard and burst into tears. It's strange ho...
1 year ago
More Humbly Did I teach

It's official - blog is changing back - I'm barely blogging enough for one blog now, let alone two, so I have decided to just blog at the old blog site: Epiphany in Baltimore. I'll mix my teachin...
2 years ago
Standing Cheese

Unheard The Word - In addition to the words “nigger” (and the “nigga” variant since I’m white), “retard” and “faggot” being banned by the P.C. police, forcing me to insinuate...
2 years ago
Box 89e

It's been a while. - Wow. I last published exactly 5 months ago. Happy Groundhog Day.
3 years ago
Broadsheet

Transition - I started "Broadsheet" way back in January of '05 as a New Year's Resolution to take advantage of a relatively recent phenomenon at the time - a weblog. Gr...
3 years ago
Holy Buck, Fatman!

Moral right to lose your Pants…. - Those who believe that the capitalist system is driven by the “Moral right” of “Selfishness” to drive one to innovation forgot to add one MAJOR human trait...
3 years ago
Hey There, Cupcake!

Apparently I am not a peer - Went for jury duty yesterday. I had rescheduled it because when I had it before, I also had finally gotten a date to talk to the water commissioner (which ...
3 years ago
Civilized Bedlam

In Which I Have Literary Angst - [image: EPIC FAIL] I can't tell a lie - I read Stephenie Meyer's Twilight in one six-hour sitting last year, fulling engrossed in her love story of the ev...
3 years ago
fumbling towards mediocrity

What are you gonna do, brother, when textureslut runs wild on YOU? - 1. The ladies of the CCRG have come to a decision on the structure of the rest of the season, and it is 95 percent what I was pulling for, which is impress...
5 years ago
brain coral

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Music

Brenda Kahn (this blog's name is an homage to her 1992 masterpiece, Epiphany in Brooklyn)
Dan Bern
Holden's Lair
Kanye West
Kristin Plater
Lupe Fiasco
Melissa Ferrick
Murs
Sam Shaber
Saul Williams
Todd Snider

Followers

Baseball

Baltimore High School Sports Forum
Baltimore Orioles
Baseball America minor league stats
Beck's Blog
Bless You Boys
Danny Knobler's Blog
Detroit Tigers
Detroit Tigers Weblog
MLB Trade Rumors
Motown Sports Message Board (Tigers)
Rotoworld
The Orioles Warehouse
The Tigers Forum where I spend way too much time
Tigers Central

Politics

CNN
Crooks and Liars
Barack Obama
Michael Moore
Andrew Sullivan

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