[ID: Marge Simpson going on a run, with her family tangled in her hair. She is wearing a pink outfit consisting of sweatbands, a tank top, leggings, legwarmers, and white pearls and shoes. At the top of her head is Maggie, clinging on for dear life. She has her red pacifier and blue onesie, and her blue bow is above her. Below her is Bart, who is reaching for a video game. He is wearing an orange shirt, blue shorts, and blue shoes. Below him is Lisa’s head, who is looking at us disapprovingly. Above her is Santa’s Little Helper, a brown dog, who is happily panting. To Lisa’s right is Snowball II, a black cat who is coughing up a blue hairball. To the right of her is Homer, who is trying to cut himself out with a pair of hedge clippers that says “Flanders.” He is wearing a white polo and blue jeans. Next to him are some chips and a beer. Their home is behind them. //END ID.]
You see, I probably would not have realized this until I decided to take a look at my Twitter feed and a colleague (who, funny story, we knew each other by Twitter names but did not meet each other until I attended a Google Summit and met her there) decided to reach out to other blogging teachers for a Professional Learning Network opportunity.
Plus, she tagged me in the post so I could not avoid such opportunity!
I decided to take a look back at Tumblr and was curious.
When did I start this Tumblr account?
THAT is when I realized it has been 10yrs since I started Tumblr and 10yrs I started this crazy journey in teaching. Whoa! Man, I am old…
Reading back at my first post I am glad that I took a chance. I mean, if you read it, my last line of this very first, very short, post was: “All because I want to be a teacher.”
And here I am…teaching. Officially. Like, I am legit in a classroom working with teenagers, specifically 9th graders. Every year I have the option of changing grade levels (and I have taught or worked with 6th-12th grade students), but I choose to stick with 9th graders. 9th graders.
For how long will I teach 9th graders?
Only time will tell.
I think I have a great gig! I put time and energy into everything I do and I have grown as a teacher since my last few blogs. I have been so busy that I could not keep up with my posts throughout the social media accounts. As a result, I lost a few followers. I get it.
But c’mon, by the time I get home, I eat whatever I can throw in the microwave (I am going to work on getting my health on) and binge on HGTV and Food Network (the cable bill is ridiculous and I should be abandoning that ship soon) before making a zombie walk to my bed to repeat the process the next day.
There is no credential program that can ever prepare you for time management, personal care, and balancing life with the classroom. But, I am here. I am glad to be here. I am a teacher. I am a badass. And I am relying on one of these students to be rich and famous enough to write me a check that will support me during retirement to thank me. You know why?
Because I was the teacher that taught them something.
New York Fashion Week is upon us once again, and Swagger New York has launched the most awesome promo! They collaborated with Italian designer Michele Moricci to create a fantasy Fashion Week world starring their favourite 90s cartoon characters like Lisa Simpson, Sailor Moon and Beavis and Butthead. Love, love, love!
I’ve been thinking about this and how the Simpsons called it and I think maybe they just read the room way better than anyone else.
1. trump being (the former) president sounds and is and was just absolutely ridiculous, but even back then people knew he was a con man with exactly as much unearned and often pretend wealth as it would take to successfully buy the presidency, the conman’s instinct for finding out what people wanna hear and saying it over and over and the ego to be magnetic to those who are, frankly, pathetic. The Simpsons was a show that started out being reviled by a lot of Middle America. The creators were always aware just how backwards America could be, how much conservative backlash we were capable of. And trump banked on that. And he was the kind of guy that the people who were in a position to stop him would dismiss with a, “pfft, he’s a sideshow, he’ll never make it, it’s absurd”. Right up until he’s dismantling democracy from the Oval. The Simpsons was known for imagining ridiculous but not 100% impossible scenarios and just flying with it. They were the walking definition of “your chances of being killed by a cat are extremely, extremely low, but never zero.”. The chances of trump being POTUS were extremely, extremely low but sadly not zero.
2. Any female head-of-state would have to have a certain look, because misogyny. They’d have to ride the line between not too masculine (so no strong blues or reds, no neutrals) and not too feminine (no pink, yellow or pastels), not too adorned and not too plain, not so rich looking it puts the middle class off (no diamonds or big stones) but appropriately coiffed enough to make her success evidence (so some jewelry must be worn). A cool purple is a good color because it can feminine-to-neutral (a male executive could wear this as a tie color and no one would think twice) while still lending itself to an outfit that’s the spiritual heir to Hilary’s power pants suit. Pearls, as well, ride that line. They’re classy, but not flashy, they’re classic but never outdated. Reasonably good looking fakes can be obtained by the lower classes yet the upper classes continue to wear them so their status as a class marker remains.
If I were thinking carefully about how a smart, determined woman like a grown President Lisa Simpson would present herself, I’d pick just about this outfit.
So, I think that’s how we got to this place. Perceptive writers in the past, keen design sense, America being exactly as fucked up as they imagined and yet containing enough people determined to keep marching forward so that a woman could be President or Vice President.
I totally agree with your analysis but also please consider the much funnier alternative:
Kamala Harris saw this episode and did it on purpose.
Also, purple would be an easy call as it represents the suffragette movement.
It’s just a pearl necklace and a purple suit you guys are retarded
What do you do if your father’s an idiot, your mother’s in la-la-land, and your brother’s a scheming brat? Well, if you're Lisa Simpson, you triumph in the fight against mediocrity with talent, smarts, and passion. Yes, Lisa’s the sax-playin’, feminism spoutin’ girl with pointy hair that pushes for social and environmental justice - all with humor and poise. She’s a symbol of all that girls can do. (And also miraculously never gets older).
Tell your friend she’s got a little Lisa Simpson in her. Reblog now to give her a little push.
My latest creation – Homer Simpson, ala Magritte!!!
There are a number of easter eggs in this particular painting, many of which I owe inspiration to because my friends are such hard core fans of the series haha. This one was difficult in a number of ways, most notably was finding a way to make Homer fit similar dimensions to the original (shifty eyes).
I really hope you guys like it and I hope you aren’t tired of my little passion project. Much love for all of your support <3
And of course, you can find me on my socials – I’m also active on IG and FB! I also have a YouTube channel with video tutorials as well.
(The Son of Man was painted by Rene Magritte circa 1946 and is an example of surrealism).
