Care Package for Monday, July 27, 2020

Poetry: Sophia the Robot Contemplates Beauty by Safiya SinclairAs a girl I held the hindlegs of the small and terrified, wantedthe short-fur and the wet meat furrowing.Read more Song In My Head: Pleiades by King’s X https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibjkqNbj23M Art: Herbert Bayer’s Chromatic Amassment Photo credit: artsy.com Quote: “Only the madman is absolutely sure.” – Robert Anton …

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A DATE WITH HISTORY: Monday, July 26, 1971

In the Top Ten: Don’t Pull Your Love by Hamilton, Joe Frank, and Reynolds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSJNKJIemDo On the Bestseller List: Future Shock by Alvin Toffler Photo credit: fontsinuse.com New In Theaters: Wake In Fright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSJNKJIemDo New In Comic Shops: Jughead #194 Photo credit: mycomicshop.com On TV: You’re Only Young Twice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYpD3PAlS1I Magazine Roulette: Photoplay Photo credit: …

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A Must-Read for Educators, Parents & Pretty Much Everybody Else, Too

When everything is urgent, nothing is urgent, right?  Like, urgent becomes the new normal – like the past few months, for example – and it takes something truly electrifying to shock the system. On Saturday, July 25, 2020, exactly that sort of shock was zapped into the system by Brigid Nease, Superintendent of the Harwood …

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Care Package for Sunday, July 26, 2020

Poetry: Ode on a Grecian Urn by John KeatsThou still unravish’d bride of quietness,    Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time,Sylvan historian, who canst thus express    A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:Read more Song In My Head: Where Is My Mind? by Trampled by Turtles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZvVeQI0heg Art: Edward Wadsworth’s Visibility Moderate …

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A DATE WITH HISTORY: Monday, July 25, 1955

In the Top Ten: Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley & His Comets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdufzXvjqw On the Bestseller List: Run Silent, Run Deep by Edward L. Beach Photo credit: abebooks.com New In Theaters: The Kentuckian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3imvkv58Eo New In Comic Shops: Crime Does Not Pay #147 Photo credit: mycomicshop.com On TV: December Bride https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adHg80IrjK0 Magazine Roulette: …

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