What happened to Schoolhouse Rock?
Hey Eagles fans,
Today we salute you, Philadelphia Eagles fan. While teams like the Chicago Bears and the Cincinnati Bengals (Bengals?!?!?!) are enjoying winning seasons, you have to endure starting Mike McMahon at QB, and some running back you don’t even know this week instead of Brian Westbrook. Oh, you had your laughs when T.O. was dismissed by the team, but now you’re just another malcontent Philly fan longing for the days of Ron Jaworski (Who, you ask? Yeah, exactly.) So crack open a non-alcoholic beverage, only because the B.L.O.G. website doesn’t advocate drinking anything hard. Even though losing seasons will make you want to get ya drink on. Ask Lions and Cardinals fans.
(Now back to the B.L.O.G., already in progress…)
-- everybody,
Hoping that you guys are continuing to have a spectacular holiday season, and that everything is going well with finals if you just happen to be in school. Actually, I wanted to address education in America, and the fact that it’s steadily declining because of a number of factors. To talk about all of them here would take more than a hot minute, and would range from lack of funding to lack of parental participation. There’s a decided lack of concern from all sides, and being a Bible Study teacher, I know that kids can read how someone genuinely feels about what they teach. Well, I’ve been in conversation with someone my age about their teaching experience, and this is what I’ve gotten from her…some quotes first:
“…but it does seem like all the principal cares about is getting a paycheck”
“…like he wants the students scores to go up, but when it comes to cracking down on kids that misbehave, it's like nothing is really done about it”
She also said that she believes the main issues that affect the youth concerning learning is lack of discipline, and lack of wanting to learn. Granted, this is her first semester teaching, and possibly her last, because she’s endured a lot of frustrations and such during this term. However, I feel like she was dead on with some of the issues that are affecting the young ones.
I originally wanted to throw something in this blog about Schoolhouse Rock, and about how in the late-80’s and early 90’s, was used as an instruction tool in some schools. For those of you that don’t know what Schoolhouse Rock is, here’s a description by the good folks at Wikipedia:
Schoolhouse Rock! is a series of 46 educational shorts featuring rock songs about schoolroom topics, including grammar, science, economics and American history and politics. Originally conceived by Thomas G. Yohe in 1972, the shorts were broadcast on ABC television affiliates until 1986. They were then broadcast on occasion throughout the 1990s and part of the 2000s.
Here’s a link that describes the breakdown of Schoolhouse Rock in depth, chronicling the six different ‘rocks’, including Grammar, Science, Money, Multiplication, Computer and America Rock.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolhouse_Rock%21
Earlier, I was thinking that I would include Schoolhouse Rock in my blog as part of explaining how I feel music can bridge some of the gaps in education. Music has been used long before SHR in helping kids to learn…e’rybody know the ABC song, but even before that…I did some (internet) research to try to find original teaching methods from the Motherland. Found some interesting methods fused in a class taught in Australia…here’s the link:
http://education.deakin.edu.au/music_ed/african_music/
I’m saying this to all you guys because I’m actually trying something of the sort in my bible study class. I’m working on…well, it’s not a musical per se…it’s got more of a “Lyricist Lounge” flow in reference to talking about real-world issues. It’s going to be deeply scripture-based, and I explained to them in saying that ‘it will have a music video feel, but that your thoughts and feelings and what you want for yourselves will make this experience come to life’. I’m calling it ‘An Album Concept’, and I really just want God to work through our class and through this project to make youth and parents understand alike what is at stake in our everyday lives. And just for somebody, somewhere to care about the young ones. Ya’ll take it easy,
The Good Doctor
(and because some of you like irrelevant relevance…)
So I went to cover the Aiken High basketball game…and the opposing team went to take a free throw. The AHS cheerleaders began a chant that sounded something like this:
Oh I think she’ll miss it
Oh I think she’ll miss it
(after a missed FT)
Oh I think she’ll miss it like she missed the other one
So it’s only right that she gonna miss another one
Then someone ran out onto the court and did the Laffy Taffy dance. I’d had enough, and tackled the dude like the second coming of Terry Tate, office linebacker. Ok, so I made the last part up.
But still, this is why we can’t allow sorry rappers and sorry trends to stay around, because the young kids will pick it up, and just like that, young Shad Moss will become Lil’ Bow Wow, and then grill out the top of his mouth and perform a double homicidal, spelling and grammatical murder of the phrase ‘Fresh Azimiz’ (Fresh as I’m is…yeah, I know. I threw up too.)
Still, in the back of mind I kinda wonder how much money the candy folks at Laffy Taffy made since D4L dropped their hit. If your moms is the candy lady, I’m happy ya’ll making a little mo’ bank.
That being said, Iceman, we need to go to the lab and make the ‘Now and Later’ remix, and as Dave Chappelle in P-Diddy garb would say, ‘go and make Daddy a hit!’ I miss Dave…here’s hoping that the passing of Richard Pryor will bring Dave out of his South African hideout. (More IR will be added later this week.)
Next blog will be a football preview…I gotta talk about my Panthers, the undefeated Colts, and why Donny McNabb’s sports hernia might not be all in part to that early season hit against the Falcons, but rather enduring the cheap shots taken by Limbaugh, T.O. and others during his days in the league. Stay cool.
Peace and love folks.
Today we salute you, Philadelphia Eagles fan. While teams like the Chicago Bears and the Cincinnati Bengals (Bengals?!?!?!) are enjoying winning seasons, you have to endure starting Mike McMahon at QB, and some running back you don’t even know this week instead of Brian Westbrook. Oh, you had your laughs when T.O. was dismissed by the team, but now you’re just another malcontent Philly fan longing for the days of Ron Jaworski (Who, you ask? Yeah, exactly.) So crack open a non-alcoholic beverage, only because the B.L.O.G. website doesn’t advocate drinking anything hard. Even though losing seasons will make you want to get ya drink on. Ask Lions and Cardinals fans.
(Now back to the B.L.O.G., already in progress…)
-- everybody,
Hoping that you guys are continuing to have a spectacular holiday season, and that everything is going well with finals if you just happen to be in school. Actually, I wanted to address education in America, and the fact that it’s steadily declining because of a number of factors. To talk about all of them here would take more than a hot minute, and would range from lack of funding to lack of parental participation. There’s a decided lack of concern from all sides, and being a Bible Study teacher, I know that kids can read how someone genuinely feels about what they teach. Well, I’ve been in conversation with someone my age about their teaching experience, and this is what I’ve gotten from her…some quotes first:
“…but it does seem like all the principal cares about is getting a paycheck”
“…like he wants the students scores to go up, but when it comes to cracking down on kids that misbehave, it's like nothing is really done about it”
She also said that she believes the main issues that affect the youth concerning learning is lack of discipline, and lack of wanting to learn. Granted, this is her first semester teaching, and possibly her last, because she’s endured a lot of frustrations and such during this term. However, I feel like she was dead on with some of the issues that are affecting the young ones.
I originally wanted to throw something in this blog about Schoolhouse Rock, and about how in the late-80’s and early 90’s, was used as an instruction tool in some schools. For those of you that don’t know what Schoolhouse Rock is, here’s a description by the good folks at Wikipedia:
Schoolhouse Rock! is a series of 46 educational shorts featuring rock songs about schoolroom topics, including grammar, science, economics and American history and politics. Originally conceived by Thomas G. Yohe in 1972, the shorts were broadcast on ABC television affiliates until 1986. They were then broadcast on occasion throughout the 1990s and part of the 2000s.
Here’s a link that describes the breakdown of Schoolhouse Rock in depth, chronicling the six different ‘rocks’, including Grammar, Science, Money, Multiplication, Computer and America Rock.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolhouse_Rock%21
Earlier, I was thinking that I would include Schoolhouse Rock in my blog as part of explaining how I feel music can bridge some of the gaps in education. Music has been used long before SHR in helping kids to learn…e’rybody know the ABC song, but even before that…I did some (internet) research to try to find original teaching methods from the Motherland. Found some interesting methods fused in a class taught in Australia…here’s the link:
http://education.deakin.edu.au/music_ed/african_music/
I’m saying this to all you guys because I’m actually trying something of the sort in my bible study class. I’m working on…well, it’s not a musical per se…it’s got more of a “Lyricist Lounge” flow in reference to talking about real-world issues. It’s going to be deeply scripture-based, and I explained to them in saying that ‘it will have a music video feel, but that your thoughts and feelings and what you want for yourselves will make this experience come to life’. I’m calling it ‘An Album Concept’, and I really just want God to work through our class and through this project to make youth and parents understand alike what is at stake in our everyday lives. And just for somebody, somewhere to care about the young ones. Ya’ll take it easy,
The Good Doctor
(and because some of you like irrelevant relevance…)
So I went to cover the Aiken High basketball game…and the opposing team went to take a free throw. The AHS cheerleaders began a chant that sounded something like this:
Oh I think she’ll miss it
Oh I think she’ll miss it
(after a missed FT)
Oh I think she’ll miss it like she missed the other one
So it’s only right that she gonna miss another one
Then someone ran out onto the court and did the Laffy Taffy dance. I’d had enough, and tackled the dude like the second coming of Terry Tate, office linebacker. Ok, so I made the last part up.
But still, this is why we can’t allow sorry rappers and sorry trends to stay around, because the young kids will pick it up, and just like that, young Shad Moss will become Lil’ Bow Wow, and then grill out the top of his mouth and perform a double homicidal, spelling and grammatical murder of the phrase ‘Fresh Azimiz’ (Fresh as I’m is…yeah, I know. I threw up too.)
Still, in the back of mind I kinda wonder how much money the candy folks at Laffy Taffy made since D4L dropped their hit. If your moms is the candy lady, I’m happy ya’ll making a little mo’ bank.
That being said, Iceman, we need to go to the lab and make the ‘Now and Later’ remix, and as Dave Chappelle in P-Diddy garb would say, ‘go and make Daddy a hit!’ I miss Dave…here’s hoping that the passing of Richard Pryor will bring Dave out of his South African hideout. (More IR will be added later this week.)
Next blog will be a football preview…I gotta talk about my Panthers, the undefeated Colts, and why Donny McNabb’s sports hernia might not be all in part to that early season hit against the Falcons, but rather enduring the cheap shots taken by Limbaugh, T.O. and others during his days in the league. Stay cool.
Peace and love folks.
posted by The Good Doctor at 1:27 AM
3 Comments:
There's an animated "reality TV" show(reread for irony) on Comedy Central, "Drawn Together." I watch it because it's right after South Park. Very over the top show, so I wouldn't recommend it.
However, one episode had *the* black character being held back while trying to obtain her detective license. Who was the main force behind keeping the black mind down? Why, the school house rock...2 by 4. But if it wasn't that guy's voice, it was the Greg dude from "Whose Line is it Anyway?" They broke down to a song with the video and everything; it was a great nostalgic moment.
In other news, despite several warnings by their omniscient ex-roommate...my former roommates went to go see King Kong last night. Spent top dollar rather than catching matinee. Competed with other lost souls for parking. And if I may quote "Men on..." from In Living Color: "Hated it!" Serves them right.
Oh don't worry Kenton, Dave will be back. He's got so much left to say, can't stay holed up for too long. He came here to VT doing standup as his show was getting big. One of the funniest acts I've seen. And Richard Prior, one of the most brilliant comedians ever. He did so much for modern comedy, I hope people remember him.
AHS Basketball...and football. What good times. Hey man, keep it real down in A-Town, and always remember AHS'01 class slogan: "Get Crunk! Get Crunk! Get Crunk!" (I wish I still had the tshirt to prove it, though.)
What up fellas,
Yo Iceman, I coulda told ya crew not to waste their time with King Kong...I mean, what's up with Hollywood anyway? I mean, are there any minds left in Hollywood, in-dustry in general? I mean, music artists sample, Hollywood samples, I mean they don't dance no more, all they do is one-two-snap, one-two-lean, one-two-snap, ya'll get the point. But ummm, good look on the 'Drawn Together' sketch...even though Family Guy's taken its share of shots at SHR. I like it, I learned a little something in my youth from it, and it would be nice if that feel and learning through music could be re-created. Oh yeah, and don't front Iceman, it's Men on Film. You knew that, just like everybody knew David Alan Grier wasn't playing on those skits.
Hunley, if it wasn't for Floridian football schools, who apparently don't love dem Ho-kies, the younger Vick and the Beamerball squad would be playing USC. Or at least exposing the BCS for the fraud that it is. You know I'm trying to hold things down in A-Town...and it's great, because the young ones in community understand the struggle, and that's the white and black. Oh yeah, and we ALL KNOW Dave will be back, if nothing else, because Richard Pryor didn't give up either. Yeah, but the 'Get Crunk' t-shirts were classic...not at the time though. Well, at least my art was appreciated while I was still alive. I still got my t-shirt; I might take a pic and post it here, yeeeeeeeeeah!
KJM
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