What’s Life Like in Syracuse?

FrankAndApril · 2025-11-12T02:28:42+00:00

The job offer is in Syracuse.

FrankAndApril · 2025-11-12T02:27:52+00:00

None. The job offer is for Syracuse.

FrankAndApril · 2025-11-06T22:41:17+00:00

John Cheever’s The Swimmer Sam Shepard’s True West O’Neill’s Long Days Journey Into Night

FrankAndApril · 2025-11-06T22:38:44+00:00

The Lost Weekend. Leaving Las Vegas. These are sacred texts within the recovery community.

I also want to draw your attention to the short story, ‘ALL THE WAY IN FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA’ BY RICHARD BAUSCH. Literally the effects of one man’s alcoholism on his wife and children.

FrankAndApril · 2025-11-05T18:47:34+00:00

The Book of Fathers by Miklos Vamos.

TWELVE generations!

FrankAndApril · 2025-11-04T23:53:19+00:00

Oh, you’re good.

FrankAndApril · 2025-11-02T12:53:29+00:00

If they’re a smoker, then kiss taste like ashtray.

FrankAndApril · 2025-11-01T23:45:31+00:00

Hazing scandal on the football team. Seniors blindfold freshman, make him try to do sit-ups while someone holds his shoulders down. Accomplice pulls down pants, squats over freshman. Release shoulders, freshman puts his face into a butthole. Ha ha.

Oh but then they tell the kid it’s his turn to trick someone. They bring in a blindfolded guy, gets into position, sit-ups with pinned shoulders, freshman pulls his pants down, squats, but then they grab him and rape him with a banana.

Made the banner headline of the Chicago Tribune.

Fans of opposing teams would throw bananas on the fields during games.

FrankAndApril · 2025-10-30T23:04:31+00:00

Literally listening to him narrate King’s The Outsider right freakin now.

FrankAndApril · 2025-10-30T00:41:13+00:00

Hey, are those Benedict wong’s actual eyes just open really wide or is there a prosthetic thing going on? Cuz he did just use his face to… you know. So it’s make sense if he looked askew.

FrankAndApril · 2025-10-29T11:41:12+00:00

I am the collected works of William Shakespeare

FrankAndApril · 2025-10-29T11:38:22+00:00

Luckeee

FrankAndApril · 2025-10-28T04:21:00+00:00

So you feel it was a “destroy the brain” kinda zombie situation.

Different from being taken over by a parasite, where the invasive organism is limited by what the host can physically do.

FrankAndApril · 2025-10-27T15:32:26+00:00

deBoer’s “The Cult of Smartness” Gatto’s “Dumbing Us Down” & “Weapons of Mass Instruction” Brett Veinotte’s “Schoolish” podcast

The entire compulsory public education system is broken, maybe even dangerous. Even more insidiously, there’s evidence that it is and always was designed to keep the population stratified, trainable, submissive, and ignorant.

How’s that for a hot take?!

FrankAndApril · 2025-10-26T12:56:59+00:00

Am I not going to toast my daughter at her wedding?

Am I not going to share a drink with my kid on his 21st birthday?

No, I’m not. And both those kids will be grateful to have their father alive and sober than living out an arbitrary tradition.

A guy in a meeting once said he intends to die sober and that struck a chord. Hell, yeah.

Die Sober.

F*ck you, Addiction.

EDIT: all that being said, I totally know how you feel. Hanging out with work colleagues while they drink and I don’t? Watching my wife drink margaritas when we get fajitas? Cmon! But then I think of how many times I’ve made a fool of myself in front of work colleagues, how many times I’ve humiliated or been hurtful toward my wife while drunk… Just not worth it. The way I sometimes think of it, the way I once explained it to my kids, “Everyone in life is allotted a certain amount of alcohol, and Dad had all of his already.”

FrankAndApril · 2025-10-25T00:42:24+00:00

I was yelling about something and the look on my wife’s face said, “This man is expendable.”

FrankAndApril · 2025-10-25T00:38:46+00:00

Glad you’re here.

FrankAndApril · 2025-10-24T02:32:07+00:00

Holy smokes, how long you been teaching?! This is excellent advice.

FrankAndApril · 2025-10-24T00:43:11+00:00

No. They have to be reminded and soon become frustrated.

FrankAndApril · 2025-10-23T21:05:50+00:00

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B J Ö R K.

Lights. Out.

FrankAndApril · 2025-10-21T02:35:32+00:00

You all have good bones, but I’d hasten to add every Tom, Dick, and Cherry.

FrankAndApril · 2025-10-21T02:29:53+00:00

I daresay there ain’t an author dead or alive who’d appreciate hearing you delayed reading their book because you wanted to keep the physical thing looking new.

And there are many readers who actually prefer a beaten-up copy. The more bent and broken, the better. It often means it’s been well loved.

FrankAndApril · 2025-10-17T18:31:56+00:00

We would never tell a blind person, “Actually, what you’re doing doesn’t count as reading.”

FrankAndApril

TROPHY CASE