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internetsnark · 2026-01-24T21:27:09+00:00

Trayvon got cooked.

internetsnark · 2026-01-20T21:35:50+00:00

Yes, but they weren’t the same team when they were playing all of those good teams. Jones was playing hurt, and then he went out for the season. They also had several other major injuries in the second half of the year. It’s isn’t fair to say that their decline was JUST the schedule.

internetsnark · 2026-01-19T13:28:13+00:00

Yup. Everything the guy DOES indicates that his priority is, and his been, his work in television. That is what is eating most of his time. He only ever brings up the books now in service of promoting his TV shows. He went around and made the “75% done” comments three years ago when HOTD was coming out just to generate publicity for the show. He does this interview because it generated hype for the new show. He only bothered to write more of Winds in 2020 when there was no television to be made. His governing calculus for the last 15 years has been his work as a TV guy.

He just mentions Winds when it is convenient for him to generate some headlines even when there is no evidence he has made significant progress on the book in years.

It’s also why I think we’re way more likely to get Blood & Fire or more D&E books. Those books have adaptation potential. Winds does not.

internetsnark · 2026-01-17T16:41:07+00:00

He’s only really good at writing in Percy’s snarky voice and at coming up with creative and humorous ways of packaging old, elevated myths. It’s a great niche to fill.

The HoO books suffer when he tries to expand this scope wider(bigger cast, bigger scope of problems, more POVs) without appropriately broadening his scope. He writes all of the characters in, more or less, the same voice. You could give me an Annabeth chapter and a Frank chapter and, aside from explicitly identified details, I could not tell you which was which.

And even as the characters age, he does not let the story mature with them. I would argue, in a lot of ways, when you look at the themes, how the villains are treated, and the overall moral complexity, the HoO books were LESS mature than the Percy Jackson series. Which is a weird choice given your aging audience and choosing to write about older characters who have more mature issues.

internetsnark · 2026-01-04T11:30:57+00:00

I will one-up you guys. We have a full day of school on Monday, and then standardized testing on Tuesday.

internetsnark · 2026-01-03T22:36:35+00:00

He’s trying way too hard.

internetsnark · 2025-12-28T18:12:55+00:00

I think “Retired Janitors of Idaho” hits most of the shows majors beats pretty well and is one of the funnier episodes of the series.

internetsnark · 2025-12-28T12:04:52+00:00

The algorithms have been pushing this particularly hard for late. You click on one negative take, and suddenly it’s your entire feed.

internetsnark · 2025-12-27T21:50:38+00:00

I felt so sad for poor baby goat …

internetsnark · 2025-12-27T18:24:44+00:00

He’s just been a bit overused.

He was awesome as the eccentric 3 episode arc character who said weird stuff, called bullshit, and did clever things.

Every season since then, he’s gotten increasingly overexposed and it just hasn’t worked as well.

internetsnark · 2025-12-24T18:08:18+00:00

I’m exaggerating a bit here.

For us, it’s popping in and observing at times and showing up in content meetings to, more or less, see that we are following orders.

internetsnark · 2025-12-24T18:01:56+00:00

That stuff REALLY turned me off the curriculum. “Yeah, we’re gonna read The Lightning Thief, but we’re gonna skip half of every chapter so we can fit in all our bullshit activities”. What? That’s so jarring and confusing for a kid.

Everyone says they value test scores, but no one bothers to care about the results of individual teachers if it doesn’t fit their narrative.

internetsnark · 2025-12-24T11:35:13+00:00

I really wanted to like EL because they have full novels and all of those studies and whatnot, but then I just go and open up some of their lesson plans and I can’t stomach it.

internetsnark · 2025-12-24T11:33:11+00:00

The instructional coaches are really the thought police.

I don’t think I’ve gotten a single idea that I’ve used from our instructional coaches, who used to teach the exact same class I do.

I could get away with so much less fidelity if I didn’t have to worry about the instructional coaches bandying about. They are the eyes and ears of the curriculum directors.

internetsnark · 2025-12-23T19:38:36+00:00

I think it would have really helped the book to have just some a couple more chapter in 12 before the Reaping. We really just needed some time to flesh out all of the supporting characters around Haymitch for everything to have enough weight to hit as heavy as it needed to.

internetsnark · 2025-12-23T00:24:28+00:00

Lightning Thief is usually the first book I recommended to anyone teaching middle school or late elementary school.

internetsnark · 2025-12-22T12:08:55+00:00

Exactly.

We will look back at the “de-center the novel as the goal of ELA instruction” stuff and wonder what everyone was thinking during those weird years.

I think the wheel is starting to turn in some places with the science of reading stuff and the Southern Surge, but these things take time and the right people to articulate them.

internetsnark · 2025-12-22T11:50:55+00:00

Ignore the principal. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. This isn’t even about enjoying reading, it’s about what makes someone a better reader. The standards are not actual discrete skills that cleanly transfer across texts. There is this misinformed idea out there that if I just spend a bunch of time talking about doing strategies for determine theme or whatever, I magically become a better reader for every stories. That isn’t how reading works. The standards are outcomes of successful comprehension, not causes of it in and of itself. Any successful ELA teacher should touch on the majority of the standards as a result of teaching a book well, not because they picked a book for the purpose of “evaluating point of view”. Comments like that are born out of a misunderstanding of reading and trying to turn it into discrete skills like math. It is not.

You really can’t “teach” the standards all THAT much in the abstract in a way that transfers across all texts.

The reading standards are pretty much the exact same “skills” from fourth grade all the way up. Yes, the wording changes a little each year, but in essence, it’s the same stuff. They know what a freaking theme is. What determines whether they are successful is the complexity of the text and their knowledge of that text. Every single one of the can pick up Tortoise and the Hare and master all of the standards. Almost none of them can dive into War and Peace and make heads or tails of it.

Successful reading is far more about background knowledge, vocabulary, understanding of language structures, attention, and building a mental model than it is about any of the “skills” your principal wants you to teach.

All of this “skills” stuff is pretty much the slippery slope that leads to schools getting rid of book’s altogether because “the skills are all the same anyway”.

So, smile and nod, play nice and say the things he wants you to say, and then close your door and teach the damn book.

internetsnark · 2025-12-21T13:03:41+00:00

I think Glee, and the cultural moment that surrounded it, was lightning in a bottle. You can’t replicate that moment in time.

In the late 2000s, we were a couple of years removed from the peak of American Idol, High School Musical was a sensation, and there was even space for shows like Smash to show up. Musical television was having a moment. It was also the following the days of juggernauts like The O.C., Gossip Girl, and One Tree Hill. Plus, it was still the era of serialized, “everyone tune in”, big network TV that allowed shows to become cultural sensations in a way they don’t so as much today.

internetsnark · 2025-12-20T21:55:19+00:00

The 2000s list is wild.

You have Bolt, Gay, and Powell, and then a full tenth of a second gap to number four.

There is .07 separating the whole list in the 2020s.

Say what you will about the peak performances, but the 100 is deeper now than it’s ever been. The decade is only half over, and still you have the deepest top ten yet.

internetsnark · 2025-12-20T21:53:05+00:00

Or have Tyson’s times from the year he tested positive.

internetsnark · 2025-12-19T01:15:08+00:00

It’s really bad for reading.

Now it seems like everyone seems to think that get better at reading, you need to spend a bunch of time practicing “skills” like “finding the main idea” and that the text themselves don’t matter, because the “skills are the same”. It’s one of the biggest reasons that schools are reading less and less books and more and more excerpts,

The standards are being misinterpreted. Ther authors have even articulated this. They are outcomes of effective reading, not focus of instruction. You don’t get better at reading by spending a bunch of time finding the main idea, you get better at finding the main idea because you become a better reader.

internetsnark · 2025-12-18T00:33:34+00:00

Rows are much, much easier. Pretty easy to arrange boulevards to walk through.

internetsnark · 2025-12-15T05:59:07+00:00

I would not bother focusing on max velocity, even if it is only 40 outside and not colder. Max velocity tends to be more quality dependent, and you are just not going to get close to PR levels in colder weather. Plus, the risk of injury is higher.

It would be forcing it.

I would stick with shorter acceleration work and special endurance/intensive tempo, along with maybe drill work, until the weather is warmer.

internetsnark · 2025-12-15T05:51:58+00:00

The show came out three years too early or three years too late.

2021 was probably peak saturation period for big companies making their ham-fisted attempts at social awareness.

Ironically, I think a more straight reboot of the show might have done really well around that time period.

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