The Jason Vande Brake Reader

• 2013-04-30

  

• 2013-03-13

  “I’m talking about all the athletic sports that we love, but our teams always blow it. Man, we love that stuff.”

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  A collection of fourth-wall-breaking moments in film.

• 2013-03-08

  You have GOT to watch this thing run.

• 2013-03-07

  

  good:

  ‘What Good Shall I Do This Day?’ Asked Benjamin Franklin Every Single Morning
  - Yasha Wallin wrote in Living, Creativity and Lifestyle

  We all have different ways of working. Some make lists of their day ahead, others charge right in and see where that takes them. Benjamin Franklin, inventor of the lighting rod and the odometer to name a couple, not to mention his work as a author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat, was a list man. How he managed to get everything done in 24 hours still seems like a miracle, but clues to his productivity lie in looking at his daily schedule.

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  Source: good

• 2013-03-04

  

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• 2013-02-22

  

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  nevver:

  Jetpack Solves Everything

  Source: poorlydrawnlines.com

• 2013-02-11

  

  nevver:

  Time cools all jets

  Source: nevver

• 2012-12-07

  I think I stole this joke.

  A few months ago I was teaching a writing class at Elite, and the lesson of the day happened to be about verb tenses. I decided to start class like this:

  Good morning, everybody.

  So, people come up to me all the time, and they say, “Hey, Jason! How can I determine if I’m using an unnecessary past perfect or past perfect progressive verb form when I should be using the simple past tense? Also, must verb tenses always be consistent within a sentence or are tense shifts acceptable in some circumstances?”

  And whenever someone asks me this, I always say the same thing:

  “How do you know my name.”

  It brought the house down.

  Since then, I’ve used that same exact joke to start class dozens of times. All the students are familiar with it, and it’s become a thing now, so that I’ll get to the “I always say the same thing” part, and then I’ll point to one of my students, and he or she will say “How do you know my name.”

  It’s so lame and I love it so much. I haven’t done much teaching lately, and that dumb joke is the main reason I miss it.

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  Boring Old Raphael: Raphael Discusses Poetry With His Seven-Year-Old Self

  boringoldraphael:

  The Poem:

  Bang bang, you’re dead.
  Fifty bullets in your head.
  One’s red, one’s blue,
  One is full of doggy doo.

  RAPHAEL BOB-WAKSBERG, 28: Help me understand what’s going on here. The speaker of the poem has just shot someone in the head.

  RAPHAEL BOB-WAKSBERG, 7: Yes.

  Fifty times? Or…

  Source: boringoldraphael

• 2012-12-04

  Highbrow. Lowbrow. Nobrow.: The Testing-Tree by Stanley Kunitz

  highlownobrow:

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  On my way home from school up tribal Providence Hill past the Academy ballpark
  where I could never hope to play I scuffed in the drainage ditch among the sodden seethe of leaves
  hunting for perfect stones rolled out of glacial time into my pitcher's hand;
  then sprinted lickety- split on my...

  Source: highlownobrow

• 2012-11-28

  

  thedailywhat:

  NYU Student Accidentally E-mails 40,000 Students with “Reply All,” A Wildfire of Lulz Ensues

  New York University sophomore student Max Wiseltier started a wildfire of lulz yesterday when he accidentally hit “reply all” to a school-wide bulletin e-mail that was only meant to be forwarded to his mother. Triggered by the University’s archaic Listerv system, Wiseltier’s message was sent to nearly 40,000 other students in the mailing list, many of whom didn’t hesitate to have a little fun with their discovery of the “reply all” feature. For more hilarious screencaps, head over to BuzzFeed!

  Oops.

  Source: thedailywhat

• 2012-11-24