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Archive for August, 2007

What Cleveland Metropolitan needs.

by Derek on Aug.28, 2007, under education, popular culture, race

Maybe this is all the CMSD needs…(thanks Carmen)

Why aren’t there movies about black and latino teachers inspiring their youth other than Stand and Deliver and Lean on Me. I know Jaime Escalante and Joe Clark aren’t the only educational role models for Latino and Black students. There are teachers, black, white, asian, latino, male and female that won’t let kids fail without the drama and the schmaltz. I know some of them personally.

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Chocolate Rain / Best Week Ever Version

by Derek on Aug.21, 2007, under plain talk

Tay is a very good sport. I love the R. Kelly shot…

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Are you ready…

by Derek on Aug.17, 2007, under athletics, fun, kickball, socializing

Are you ready for some kickball?

Maybe you’re thinking “man, I haven’t played that since elementary school”. Well, some adults were playing kickball yesterday at Shaker Middle School…and I was among them. A fun time was had by all. Why were we playing kickball?

Because of WAKA: the World Adult Kickball Association. There are two Cleveland-area divisions: The Great Lakes Division, which is scheduled to start play a week from yesterday and the Rock and Roll Division, which is having a preseason pick-up game next Tuesday.

For more info, hit up WAKA . Yes, that’s a working URL.

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the losses of insularity

by Derek on Aug.11, 2007, under insulation, thoughts

Sometimes, you lose a lot in life from what you don’t do and who you don’t connect deeper with. I have met many people in my life that, because, at one point, I was so insular, I didn’t connect with as deeply as I should have. These were people I could relate to and people I could understand that understood me. I ran into one of those people a couple of days ago….actually, this week, I have run into a few of those people.

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Handsome Boy Modeling School promo video

by Derek on Aug.09, 2007, under plain talk

Handsome Boy Modeling School…this is my next career move. Forget web development…anybody got 60 dollars?

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