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"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
Kurt Vonnegut

BCC, Baby!

I fought to go there, you know. Part of my decision when it came to who I wanted to have custody of me was my consideration of what would help me more in the long run. I chose BCC. I graduated pretty much at the bottom of my class with an overall GPA of 1.09. I was the second highest absent senior of my year and my average weekly attendance was 2.5 days. I went to all my classes on Senior skip day. I lunched with the Vice Principal on Fridays. We met at the Wang building. When lunch ran late I was given a pass to my next class ... geometry.

My Geometry teacher was also the basketball coach. He told us that the greatest pick up line in the world was A Squared + B Squared = C Squared. He told us that for a whole semsester before cluing us in to Pythagoras.

I received my diploma in September. I had to take Art over the summer in order to graduate.

Notable alumni of B-CC:

Nick Baily, music industry notable and Director at Shore Fire Media
Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring
Chet Culver, Governor of Iowa
Tommy Davidson, comedian and part of the cast of the TV show In Living Color
Andy Duncan, founding member of the band OK GO
Neal Fredericks, cinematographer, most notably for "The Blair Witch Project"
Joe Haldeman, noted science-fiction writer and author of "Forever War"
Hannah Hennighausen, and Shay Smith players on American University's 5-time defending Patriot League Field Hockey champions.
Robert Gordon, rockabilly singer
Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Philip J. Kaplan, (aka Pud), notable internet personality and founder of Fuckedcompany.com and Adbrite
Daniel Kessler, guitarist and founder of the band Interpol
Neal Potter, County Executive of Montgomery County, 1990-1994
Jeff Raines and Rob Mercurio, founding members of the band Galactic
Joti Rockwell and Nathan Church Hubbard, founding members of the band Rockwell Church
Jonathan I. Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems
Andy Serwer, journalist with Fortune magazine
David Simon (writer), creator and executive producer of the HBO series The Wire (TV series)
Daniel Stern, actor noted for playing Marv, one of the burglars from the first two Home Alone movies.

Why's and Wherefore's

I decided to switch to the first person singular because it is easier. Writing in the 1st person plural was a good exercise but I am bored with it and would rather take advantage of the intimacy this space allows.

I was writing a bunch when I started this blog but as you can see have fallen off. I blame this on the tedium of holding myself to a standard and the capriciousness of refusing to abide by my own rules.

I have lowered my standards and abolished all the rules.

We'll see what happens.

C'est Moi

I am moving...
to the first personal singular.

A Sea Change

We are thinking of following
firedoglake
and busting out the margins
in a new voice.

stay tuned...

In with the new ...

firedoglake has a new look. Now you have to log in to leave comments. The site looks pretty good and runs smoothly for me. Registration was quick and easy. Change is good but it takes royalty a while to adjust. Still, fdl has really caught fire this year and it certainly has come a long way since the old site on blogger. Kudos we suppose.