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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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The Magic of the Wizard's Dream
If you hang out with Lindsay long enough, you’ll soon discover one indisputable fact: wizards are funny. Not Harry Potter wizards, but wizardly wizards. The kind with flowing, long, white beards a...
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 ...
Satiated by Museum Dick Cake
As promised, we held the first meeting for our erotica book club this past weekend. At first, some potential book club members hesitated at legitimately reading the novel, Insatiable by Heather Hunte...
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
After a lot of discussion about starting a book club, we finally got one off the ground. The first selection was Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, a book about sustainable eating. Wh...
Crack Whores Are Friends
After more than a month's absence, a few of us took a trip to our favorite lesbian karaoke bar. Lindsay arrived at the bar as Terri and I were leaving the house, so she opted to sit in the car and wa...
A Big Day: My Birthday and the Last Day of Teaching
Though yesterday was my birthday, I actually celebrated it on Wednesday night because of my overbooked Thursday schedule. Katy, Michael, and I traveled downtown to the newly opened Belgian pub, which...
Walking a Mile in Her Heels
I’ve been negligent in reporting my last three trips to the lesbian karaoke bar; allow me to catch you up. Before she fled California, Kirsten joined me for a wild night. She boozed, I drove. I sa...
Commie Bastards
Allison and Stacy have neighbors that are Communist organizers. It's funny to think that that over the course of a few decades the term "Communist" in America has gone from the ultimate insult to jus...
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...
Detective Kevin
Mysteriously, a series of ten tally marks suddenly appeared on our living room floor. Neither I nor my housemates could explain how they got there. We tried to clean it, but even after extensive s...
The Margarita Monday that Wasn't Supposed to Happen
Every Monday is a Mexican-American holiday for me because I celebrate Margarita Monday on a weekly basis. However, this past Monday, it was a Mexican-American holiday for everyone: Cinco de Mayo. Ou...
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...
Happy Easter
Happy Easter! It's a special day; there's a sticker on my shirt that reads, Somebunny loves you! That somebunny is Jesus, by the by.This morning, I went with Amber and Shea to brunch and got myself ...
Masculinists
Unlike most schools, Pitzer College is a liberal haven. The student body is largely progressive and enamored with its activist pursuits and atypical educational opportunities. That said, there is also...
A Pregnant Pause
Tonight, several of us went out to dinner to celebrate Phoebe's birthday. Someone selected the Buffalo Inn, a peculiar place, indeed. The first time I went to this establishment, I was told by a relat...
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...
Paper Towel Art
Each Christmas Eve eve, Briel kindly hosts a party (with latkas!) for members of our high school class that were smart enough to escape Connecticut, but are back for the holidays. This year, the part...
Return to Margarita Mondays
This past Monday Morning was the hardest day to get out of bed and go to work. Just like last year, after having a delightful two week reprieve from my precious students, the reality of having to get...
NYE in NYC
My New Year's Eve was a real trip -- a trip to New York City, specifically. Technically, the big day began for me at midnight (as in 24 hours before the ball dropped) when I was at a bar with Briel a...
The Ghost of Christmas Present
From time to time, I like to lead an adventurous life. Mind you, my definition of adventurous doesn't mean the typical white water rafting or skydiving (though I am in fact interested in both activit...
A Toast to the Less Fortunate
It's funny how not only was my recent apprehension toward Margarita Mondays unwarranted, but I have become a king of sorts at the establishment. The manager the past few weeks has gone out of eir way...
The Coupon
I am never going to Margarita Mondays again!At least that's what I thought last week when something awkward and embarrassing occurred. I suppose that's nothing new, but it reached a different level. ...
The Eye of the President
I've been holding out on you. I was going to save one last Presidential Essay for a special occasion, but that special occasion came sooner than I expected. The essay below was the only paper that I...
How Low Can I Go?
This past weekend, I went to Daniel's birthday party. It was fun, boozy. and even included a pinata. With one foul swing, Daniel decapitated a pinata. Shortly thereafter, Kirsten and Jessica starte...
Doin' Da Butt
This past Saturday night, Phoebe arranged a trip to a roller-skating rink. Upstairs, it had a bowling alley, bar, and karaoke, hence one-upping one of my other favorite locations. Also, because it ...
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...
Happy Hours
Tonight, for the first time in a long time, I hung out with my coworkers socially. I was a bit reluctant at first since it carried so much potential for being boring and uncomfortable like previous o...
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...
A Mythical Creature with Rabies
On Monday, I mentioned that I hoped to kill the foul taste of ant death in my mouth with some alcohol from Margarita Mondays. Unfortunately, it worked too well, as I ultimately ended up with the tast...
A Bug's Life
Bugs have invaded my life again. My home, the Kremlin, has been overrun with ants. In the past, the hippies that we are, we've learned to coexist peacefully with insects, but once it got to the poin...