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Some people are just desperate to get behind an underdog. So it seems with the members of a Facebook group called Chair Watch, who have locked in on an unlikely subject: a chair hanging from the top floor of a roofless abandoned home in Dennis Township, N.J.
“One day it will come down, but until then we all must drive by and look at the chair in all its mesmerizing glory,” the group’s description says, according to United Press International. “How long can it last? Will it blow down before the entire house falls down? … Things we all want to know and don’t want to know at the same time because it will ruin the fun.”
The group has attracted almost 10,000 followers, one of whom, Donna Marie O’Leary, commented that she hasn’t “enjoyed this much fun since Christie was governor and closed the beach!”
In 1995, the Seattle Times reported, filmmaker Gerry Fialka of Los Angeles started a book club with an unconventional schedule: Members read the notoriously difficult “Finnegans Wake” by James Joyce — one page at a time. They just finished on Oct. 3.
“We do one page at a time and then discuss it for two hours,” Fialka said. “That’s why it’s taken us 28 years.”
When people ask what his book club is going to read next, he tells them, “We’re never going to read another book.”
He explained that the book ends with a run-on sentence on page 628, which then continues on the first page of text: “So it’s a cyclical book. It never ends. We’ll read page 3 again next.”
Since the pandemic, the club has been meeting via Zoom, which Fialka says he likes better than in person.
“I don’t have to set up chairs,” he said.
In this week’s edition of “We Don’t Pay Teachers Enough,” Stephen Taylor, an educator at the Mill Creek Campus alternative school in Olathe, Kan., lost his job over videos he posted to TikTok, Fox4-TV reported. In the videos, Taylor, who also does stand-up comedy, said he “saved up” his “big milky lactose intolerant” gas and “drop(ped) bombs silently … and then I just let it stew.”
He also claimed that he gives students misinformation when they “annoy” him: “I tell them Abraham Lincoln invented the car, that’s why it’s named after him.”
When Taylor was called before the school board, he told members, “The reason I’m doing comedy on TikTok is to make money because you only pay me $45,000 a year and I work all the time.”
Taylor said the students understand his jokes, but he was relieved of his duties nonetheless and has no plans to return to teaching.
Fourth-graders at the Academy of Innovative Education charter school in Miami Springs, Fla., got to choose a movie to watch during lunch on Oct. 2, CBS News Miami reported. They unknowingly chose “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey,” a 2023 horror film about two murderers who prey on university students while wearing Pooh and Piglet costumes.
The teacher “didn’t stop the movie, even though the kids were saying, ‘Hey, stop the movie, we don’t want this,’” said parent Michelle Diaz.
She said her twins were traumatized. The school later issued a statement saying they “have already met with those students who have expressed concerns.”
Oh, bother.
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