Downeast Schoolhouse » strangeness http://downeastschoolhouse.com Education, bread, music, orneriness. In monstrous slabs. Irony in wee drams. Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:35:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Friday Linky Business! http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2008/11/friday-linky-business/ http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2008/11/friday-linky-business/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:00:30 +0000 admin http://downeastschoolhouse.com/?p=980 Streaming .TV shows by UstreamAs a break from the usual routine, we call your attention to the page up above entitled “Quirky Links.”

There’s something there for each of you, so long as you love puppies, cats, octopi (as animals, we mean, not as food), or…humans!

[...]]]> http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2008/11/friday-linky-business/feed/ 0 Christ for President http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2008/09/christ-for-president/ http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2008/09/christ-for-president/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:00:28 +0000 admin http://downeastschoolhouse.com/?p=126 There are hundreds of Woody Guthrie “songs” — words without written music — in the Guthrie Archives, never seen, never heard, probably never sung, and certainly never recorded since their writing

In 1995, Nora Guthrie asked Billy Bragg and Wilco to take a look.  The result was the Mermaid Avenue albums.

Here is a Woody [...]]]> http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2008/09/christ-for-president/feed/ 0 Greetings, Parents! http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2008/09/greetings-parents/ http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2008/09/greetings-parents/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:00:25 +0000 admin http://downeastschoolhouse.com/?p=278 Parents have a heck of a lot of forms to fill out in the first few days of school.  If you have more than one child in school, it can seem pretty oppresive.

Nevertheless, this piece in the the New York Times seems only very weakly amusing.  Click here to get the full [...]]]> http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2008/09/greetings-parents/feed/ 0