Author Archives: dana415

About dana415

Sound, words, and teaching are my passions and I am so lucky and grateful to also call them my life work. Check out Films On 45, UAudioU, Mavens of Media, and DanaJae33 -- all places I like to leave my mark.

“A Screaming Comes Across The Sky”

Posted on January 29, 2017

This wonderful collection of words in the post title was not penned by me nor comes from my brain other than the receptacle of memory as that of the words of author Thomas Pynchon‘s in his novel titled “Gravity’s Rainbow“. How … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, People, Politics, Writing | Tagged Brain Pickings Weekly, EPA, Gravity's Rainbow, Pop Chart Lab, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Thomas Pynchon | 1 Comment

America: Enough of the TOXIC STRESS on the Middle Already!

Posted on March 26, 2015

Have you been holding your head in your hands for so long now that you realize your arms don’t belong in that place connected to the head? I teach for a living and man, and I have got to tell … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Politics | Tagged adminstrators, college, corporate take-over, education, job, middle, money, stress, zombie | 1 Comment

Open Casket Wedding

Posted on January 20, 2015

It’s my new band name. Open Casket Wedding – has a ring to it, no? (Pardon the pun.) Today’s post is about the songs I heard today and the title is about living with the people who have taken over … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Life in San Francisco, Politics, Writing | Tagged AFT2121, Art department, Belva Davis, CCSF, Duran Duran, funeral, funereal, handshakes, Jr., KFOG, Lyrics, Mayor Ed Lee, Message in a Bottle, Metreon, MLK, Sting, The Police, wake up, We Shall Overcome, wedding, workplace, Zen Master | Leave a comment

2 Million Light Years Away

Posted on January 11, 2015

The small center of my world fills up regularly with the misdeeds, Machiavellian calculations, and deceitful, closed-door chatter among a small group of elites. Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Life in San Francisco, Politics, Writing | Tagged administrators, CCSF, City College of San Francisco, community college, greed, humanity, people | Leave a comment

Just Breathe…

Posted on January 1, 2015

Today feels fresh and alive. Not in the way of a human countdown as in the new 365, but rather in that “only in northern California beautiful day” kind of way. So many surf at the beach, bobbing in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in San Francisco, Writing | Leave a comment

The most brilliant, insidious plan ever – pure evil…

Posted on December 13, 2014

This is America: drowning her citizens and caving in on herself. Though it’s truly one of the wonders of the world found in Cape Perpetua, Oregon, Thor’s Well (AKA: Spouting Horn), is considered a “gateway to the underworld”. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Politics, Writing | Tagged America, Arne Duncan, Bill O'Reilly, billionaires, Bloomberg, citizenry, control, Courts, education, Ellison, Executive, Gates, government, hate, Judicial, Kochs, Legislative, Oregon, pawns, politics, power, President, Rush Limbaugh, Thor's Well, United States, Veterans, Waltons, Wealth, Zuckerberg | 3 Comments

Rooms of One’s Own – a box in a box in a box

Posted on September 28, 2014

Life is a box. We live in one, we work in one, we drive in one, we stare at one, we type on one, we ship boxes in boxes to other destination boxes. I’ve been contemplating all of the boxes … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in San Francisco, Writing | Tagged Anaheim, Apartments, Bay Area, Berkeley, Box, Boxes, Cal, Chapter, college, Durant Avenue, Episode, Friends, High School, Involved, Involvement, Junior High School, Living, Los Angeles, Mom, Moms, Rooms, San Diego, San Francisco, SoCal, UC Berkeley, worker, Worker bee | 1 Comment

Outstanding Bartenders and Bar-backs of San Francisco: Come join us!

Posted on September 14, 2014

“There you are!” She idles up to the bar, elbowing her way through the many patrons at The Broken Record Bar & Grill at 1166 Geneva Ave. in the Crocker-Amazon neighborhood of San Francisco. Connecting their patrons via Facebook and Yelp!, the people … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Life in San Francisco, Music, Theater, Writing | Tagged aircraft, alcoholic beverage, art, artists, bar food, bar-backs, bars, bartenders, City College of San Francisco, Classes, Crocker Amazon neighborhood, education, film, food, fulfilling, life, motorcycle maintenance, musicians, photography, runners, San Francisco, students, television, The Broken Record Bar & Grill, writers | Leave a comment

First, they came for my students…

Posted on September 3, 2014

We are no longer the middle and we are not the bottom, but rather a new class of worker bees: America’s teachers who have been beaten into a twenty-mule team pulling the reformer’s idea of “right choices” for students to better compete on the global stage. Most … Continue reading →

Posted in Education | Tagged Arne Duncan, Common Core, data, Deductive Reasoning, Education Reformer, Educators, Middle Class, money, Policy, research, Standardized Testing, students, Studies, teachers | Leave a comment

What’s with all of this “First World” ranting?

Posted on August 12, 2014

Warning: this will not read as you think (and there is one or more expletive contained herein). I’m not standing up for the whiny rich people with their wireless problems, but rather for hard-working people like myself who have … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in San Francisco, Writing | Tagged artists, expensive, First World Problem, hard working, iPhone, Kardashian, luxury, Middle Class, musicians, poor, problems, rant, rich, shout, strange, Wealthy | Leave a comment

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