Linkety link link!

I have exciting links which must be shared.

First: Super Mario College Hall. It's a dorm hallway decorated to look like, well, Super Mario brothers.

Now I never played Super Mario Brothers - I was a Mario Kart girl - but this hallway is awesome. (I've always liked racing game best. I think it's because of all the exciting scenery.)

Also: Shit My Students Write. Which includes such immortal gems as: The rebel and onion armies showed grose negligence by having many of their battles right inside national parks, like Gettysburg.

And also: At some point in a person’s life, they are a teenager, and every teenager is sure to hold a mug of angst close at hand.

Ah, that warm and frothy mug of angst. It's good with marshmallows!

(None of my tutees ever wrote anything quite as striking as the quotes here. But I did once read a paper wherein the student explained the King Lear illustrated Milgram's ideas about obedience to authority, because people obeyed King Lear, on account of he was king.

I gently suggested that she should at least read the Sparknotes before writing her papers.)

The Gibson Girl

As promised: the Gibson Girl plays football.



I don't know how clear the image is, so here's the gist: the shrimpy fellow at the right is still carrying the football. However, the Amazon on the left is probably going to tackle him and take the ball away within the next five frames or so. No, that's not at all Freudian. What are you talking about?

(It's totally Freudian. An uneasiness about women's growing self-assertion underlies a lot of Gibson Girl images, as see below.)