Epiphany in Baltimore

The Musings of a High School English teacher in Baltimore City

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

LostNMissing, Inc: Rodney Goggins, 20 Missing Fire Cadet from East Ba...

LostNMissing, Inc: Rodney Goggins, 20 Missing Fire Cadet from East Ba...: "East Baltimore, Maryland MISSING: Sunday, May 29, 2011 Height: 5'6' Weig..."
Posted by Epiphany in Baltimore at 10:12 PM 1 comments Links to this post
Home
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

Follow Me On Twitter!

Follow epiphanyinbmore on Twitter

Twitter Updates

About Me

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.
View my complete profile

Contact Me

epiphanyinbaltimore@gmail.com

Be my Netflix friend

Netflix Friend Me

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2011 (40)
    • ►  December (1)
      • The BCPSS teacher contract, one year later
    • ►  November (18)
      • Fertile Concrete
      • Obliblog II
      • AUs = Leprechaun Gold
      • Dumb It Down
      • Obligablog
      • Made It through Hump Day
      • It's only Tuesday
      • A Socratic Seminar during a 45-minute period
      • Persepolis and Its Connection to Fahrenheit 451
      • Grading
      • Observation
      • Censorship lesson went well. Get observed tomorrow...
      • Big censorship lesson in the library with the 9th ...
      • My internet problems seemed to be the result of an...
      • Week in Review
      • Beginning Research with Satrapi's Persepolis
      • The long-winded story of why I voted for Jody Land...
      • Power Teacher Gradebook
    • ►  October (1)
      • Public Jeer to MARC train for raising group rates
    • ►  September (1)
      • Empowering my 9th graders
    • ►  August (3)
      • The 10-year goal, put to the test
      • End of Summer
      • The "Landmark" contract in practice
    • ►  July (4)
      • Bringing the Common Core into Summer Reading & Wri...
      • IB English - students do well
      • Review: Once Upon a River
      • New novels and the Common Core Curriculum
    • ►  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)
      • Becoming a Model Teacher
      • State cuts threaten education-please act now
      • Teacher blogging
    • ►  January (5)
      • Making inferences
      • IB commentaries
      • Random FB chats that help keep you going
      • Teacher intern tomorrow
      • Heading into the new year
  • ►  2010 (154)
    • ►  December (6)
      • School Calendar = not good for students
      • What? The Cyclops raped the men's heads? on the fl...
      • "Marking"
      • Trying to teach The Odyssey
      • Classroom Library and SSR
      • Returning to house concerts
    • ►  November (13)
      • "Getting through" the play
      • "Gifts" by Peter Davison
      • Now it's National Board-certified Epiphanyin Balti...
      • Reason to like new contract?
    • ►  October (19)
    • ►  September (10)
    • ►  August (12)
    • ►  July (11)
    • ►  June (12)
    • ►  May (8)
    • ►  April (6)
    • ►  March (13)
    • ►  February (20)
    • ►  January (24)
  • ►  2009 (91)
    • ►  December (28)
    • ►  November (17)
    • ►  October (10)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  July (6)
    • ►  June (4)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  April (3)
    • ►  March (3)
    • ►  February (11)
    • ►  January (6)
  • ►  2008 (167)
    • ►  December (6)
    • ►  November (10)
    • ►  July (2)
    • ►  June (17)
    • ►  May (25)
    • ►  April (28)
    • ►  March (22)
    • ►  February (31)
    • ►  January (26)
  • ►  2007 (337)
    • ►  December (13)
    • ►  November (26)
    • ►  October (32)
    • ►  September (26)
    • ►  August (25)
    • ►  July (35)
    • ►  June (38)
    • ►  May (27)
    • ►  April (12)
    • ►  March (24)
    • ►  February (44)
    • ►  January (35)
  • ►  2006 (530)
    • ►  December (26)
    • ►  November (42)
    • ►  October (39)
    • ►  September (49)
    • ►  August (60)
    • ►  July (42)
    • ►  June (39)
    • ►  May (47)
    • ►  April (43)
    • ►  March (51)
    • ►  February (42)
    • ►  January (50)
  • ►  2005 (340)
    • ►  December (43)
    • ►  November (59)
    • ►  October (61)
    • ►  September (46)
    • ►  August (48)
    • ►  July (54)
    • ►  June (29)

My former locations

  • Teach Baltimore, 2007-2009
  • The former location of this blog and its archives, 2000-2005

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
    -
  • Ms. Boombastic, Simply Fantastic
    -
  • David McCreery | davidm.net
    -

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

Labels

  • Teaching (81)
  • 2009-2010 (34)
  • Waiting Tables (30)
  • Grad School (24)
  • Pop Culture (24)
  • baseball (23)
  • ailments (18)
  • Baltimore Bars (17)
  • Buying a house (17)
  • being broke (17)
  • coaching (17)
  • Reflection (16)
  • books (16)
  • thrilling errands (15)
  • Music (14)
  • School Politics (14)
  • working out (13)
  • Baltimore politics (11)
  • Detroit Tigers (11)
  • turning 30 (11)
  • live music (10)
  • vacation (10)
  • School (8)
  • movies (8)
  • blogging (7)
  • Health (6)
  • national politics (6)
  • pets (6)
  • Teaching James Baldwin (5)
  • weight loss (4)
  • buying a car (3)
  • living in baltimore (3)
  • Baltimore Orioles (2)
  • authors (2)
  • single in the city (2)
  • technology (2)
  • A Lesson Before Dying (1)
  • Fences (1)
  • National Board (1)
  • Song of Solomon (1)
  • b (1)
  • poetry (1)
  • restaurant review (1)
  • trader joe's (1)
  • tv (1)

Share it