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Kevin Babbles
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Kevin humorously babbles about his hilarious antics and daily observations. An educator by day and writer at heart, Kevin never fails to find a humorous and sometimes meaningful outlook on his experiences.
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Religion: I Don't Know
It’s been a while since I’ve waxed on religion, but I’m ready to expand the monologue.This past weekend, I went to see Religulous with Dani, Michael, and Brandon. Host Bill Maher is perhaps the...
High and Dry: Dirty Laundry
Before I left for college, my grandma told my mom that she had to teach me three things: 1) How to do laundry 2) Not to drink alcohol 3) Not to do drugs. Considering I only failed on the drinking ...
Snapping Turtles
Several years ago at a party, I permitted (I’m not sure whether I verbally consented, but I know I didn’t fight it) two friends to vigorously hickey both sides of my neck, leaving me looking batte...
Macho Man
Jessica to Mike after he grew a cheesy mustache:"You look like you could be in the Village People! You could be any of them, except the Indian."...
My Minute Newt
What if I owned a small newt? Why, I'd call it "my minute newt." My minute newt. My minute newt. It's a fun phrase to say, especially in a singsong manner. My-my-newt-newt. Say it fast and focus...
Where's the Beef?
My favorite game from college is one we invented called Where’s the Beef? It started after I brought a piece of steak home from the dining hall, subsequently forgot about it, then later found it mo...
Ten New Links
I've updated several links in the past month; rather than hope you discover them on your own, I'm going to be pushy and call your attention to them here, as well. And so I present, in random order, t...
Show Some Respect
Jef: Where are you going?Chuck: To get a Goodbar.Jef: That's Mr. Goodbar to you!...
The Tragic Tale of Smiley Rich
During the first weeks of college, most freshmen socialize freely with everyone they meet, mentally taking notes on who is worthy of longer-term friendship down the road. Throughout this initial peri...
More Power
Recently, I mentioned how much I adored Samantha Power's commencement address at Pitzer College. At the time, I was unable to locate video or text of the speech, but now that both have become availab...
Graduation Day
I graduated this past Saturday! Well, that's not entirely true, I opted not to walk in the ceremony, but technically it was my graduate school graduation. I was harangued for my decision by some fri...
Poly 416
Last Friday, while grading my students' homework, I found a cover of People Magazine slipped into the mix. I'm not sure who turned it in or why, but it made me giggle, first in concept, then for its ...
The Spelling Bee
Sunday Basketball was as lackadaisical as it’s ever been. With the temperature at 94 degrees, no one was up for running around so we played an unenthusiastic game of Around the World while running...
Bigotry at a Lesbian Bar
Last night Kirsten, Lindsay, and I returned to the lesbian karaoke bar The Hook-Up , after having a memorable time a few weeks ago. It wasn’t too crowded, so we sat at the bar. Lindsay quipped, â€...
More Masculinism
The controversy with Pitzer's unofficial Masculinist Coalition has turned downright ugly.I have to hand it to the club's founder, he's media savvy and, as I expected, using the media to spread his pli...
Stupidity
While I try not to talk too much crap behind people's back (my students don't count, BTW, since they remain anonymous), I found myself compromising my values when Betsy called me yesterday to ask whet...
Hardly an Assassination
After hearing many good things about the film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, I settled down to watch it with Katy, Alice, and Michael Michael on Sunday night. Most people...
Career Advice
This past weekend, I attended an alumni career event at my old college. To be honest, I didn't want to go. Alas, my friend Kurosh helped to organize the evening, so I felt obligated to attend. As m...
Proposition Party
Last night, Claire and Cecilia hosted a Proposition Party. No, not a "do you want to come home with me?" kind of proposition party, but a political proposition party. California has seven propositio...
Jackass
I will be the first to admit my enjoyment of Jackass is pretty out of character. I dislike comedic displays of violence -- or violence of any nature for that matter. Still, as someone who likes bein...
Rethinking Rape
I take the controversial stance of being firmly opposed to rape. To tell you the truth, I haven't always been that way. That's not to say I've ever been in favor of it, but my perspective toward it ...
Declogging
It's been a month since the toilet clogged in a tremendous way. Since then, our house has had one bathroom, but it can't well accomodate eight people's feces on its own.For this reason, I've had to m...
Lions for Lambs
Well, I did it. For the first time in nearly a year, I saw a film at the theatre. The distinction goes to Lions for Lambs, a movie I mentioned before because it was filmed, in part, at both of my al...
Act Your Age
Sometimes I feel I can act any age but my own.Before The Go! Team concert last Saturday, Stacy and Allison brought a flask of rum to nip on in the parking lot. We concealed ourselves in our car in th...
Shark Attack
Here's a conversation from college that has been saved on my computer for more than a year and a half and has never been deemed funny enough to make it to the blog. The more time passes, the more I r...
I Will Always Love You
During my graduate program for education, my peers and I would discuss our own educational backgrounds as a point of reference. My classmate with the most colorful background, Herman*, would often di...
Rereunion
Pitzer College built a new dormitory, celebrating its completion with a ribbon cutting ceremony yesterday. Indeed, the construction has come a long way since being just an unconventional outlet for p...
Learning from YouTube
My alma mater Pitzer College has received a wealth of media attention recently for a class called "Learning from YouTube." It is the first college class in the nation with the popular video sharing w...
Home Schooled
Since graduating from college, I think of my friend Joan frequently. Fortunately, every other month or so, Joan and I participate in a conversation ritual made possible by cellular telephone. The th...
The Blue Lagood-golly-this-sucks
While walking through the living room, Phoebe and I catch one of my housemate’s watching naked teenagers on the television screen. Naturally, Phoebe questions my housemate as to what ey is doing, a...