This is Part 1 of 5. The other installments are already up on the VBS page.

I know I haven’t been great about posting on here lately. I’ve been writing, but for publications and writing groups, not for this blog. Combine that with the fact that I’ve cheated on this blog, with another blog, Fistful of Paper, and the guilt grows.

Dear blog, I have not abandoned you. I will return. I still love you the most, even with your simple, unchanged design. You were there from the beginning.

I shall not redeem myself tonight. It is too late, again I have been up writing and grading and not planning for class tomorrow and I would rather try to catch another 15 minutes of a Mad Men episode before I fall asleep. So until then, I will take the easy way out and post another video (albeit a funny one, and related to my new obsession Mad Men).

By the way, it is currently zero degrees out. Exactly. Not negative, not positive, just zero. A whole number, rational number and an integer – all concepts I revisited tonight while tutoring.

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The song is pretty sweet and catchy plus references from the Brooklyn Dodgers (of course) to Annie (once again) to Lykke Li. Nice. And cool typography graphics. B-R-O-O-K-L-Y-N, join in.

I had a strange coincidence yesterday when I randomly remembered there was going to be a documentary on the art book Beautiful Losers, which in turn was based on an art exhibit. I looked on Amazon to see if a DVD was out because I figured the last I heard about it was a really long time ago. No luck. Then I checked this movie blog called Big Screen, Little Screen that I occasionally visit, but hadn’t for a long time, and guess what was the last entry? The trailer for Beautiful Losers. Weird.

I’m really excited to see it.

So here it is:

Beautiful Losers film trailer from beautifullosersfilm on Vimeo.

On Friday we exited the Bemis to this sight.

Here is the other intersecting street.

Yeah, we were stranded.