doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 08/11/2025“I don’t bowl to bowl, I bowl to live.” my kid, after a wonderful series of gutterballs 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Last week, we were discussing, in 11, how English teachers are “merchants of doom,” leaning on the heavy material because it gives us more to explore. And here’s Vogelsinger sending this one out for us to take a break from that! 051
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 22/10/2025English Teacher hive mind: I’m about to start prepping to teach Daniel Kraus’ Whalefall. Anybody tackled this one yet? Any insights? (I haven’t done much of a search yet to see what’s out there. It’s been a minute since I tackled a fresh book without a ton of resources) 100
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2025In my Grade 11 course, I use this, and 3 other spider poems towards the end of the course. When there was a spider rescue attempt on day one, it was all I could do not to yell at them for sneaking ahead and posting spoilers! 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 12/06/2025I am last week of classes in June teacher tired, and have been looking forward to this all day. 010
Reposted by doodlinmunkyboyAEW On TV @aewontv.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Drop your picks ahead of this and more as #AEWSummerBlockbuster is LIVE with FOUR HOURS of action at 8/7c on TBS and Max 57416
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025One of my favourite comic runs was Peter David’s Aquaman. A fantastic writer. 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Saw Sinners tonight. I love, love, love when a movie “reads” like a novel. The ol’ English TeacherBrain was tickled at all the threads to pull at. 020
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025@ericvespe.bsky.social I fell behind on yer pods in the back half of the winter. As I catch up, I have to thank you for the Larry Hama episode. Such a neat look into some formative childhood lore! 010
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Judging by the table next to the right of my reading spot, I have no advice to offer. (Insane combo of TBR, already read, books that “followed me home”… The stack to the left isn’t as bad. 010
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Do I have a spider stamp solely for marking one assignment? Not explicitly, as there are two assignments, but… 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 15/04/2025As I put the final touches on my latest Moving Writers post, I realized that this week is the first time I’ll be in the same room as another MW contributor. @triciaebarvia.bsky.social and I are both at the Adolescent Lit Summit! 110
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Bowling for Soup will be soundtracking the last burst of report card comment writing this evening.media.tenor.coma group of people are sitting in chairs in front of a make a gif.com websiteALT: a group of people are sitting in chairs in front of a make a gif.com website 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025I did okay as a student, but I have long weaponized my insomnia, and pretty much always have time for the reading. Truth is, when I didn’t is when I did the worst, and understood the least. (Internet access will give ‘em a bit more than Cliffs Notes did.) 010
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025I spoke about this frankly with my Lit class the other day. Told them they’ll benefit the most from doing the reading, but the reality is it may not always happen. They have to do their best. 110
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 09/04/2025My current tiny joy is withholding the next title that we’re doing in Lit class until we start the book next week. A couple of them want to know what it is so badly that they’ve insisted I tell them a book that it isn’t each day. 010
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Oh, I need to play with this. I think my lit class would have a great time! 010
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 09/04/2025And even though the drive to and from swim practice served as a break from work, I’m taking another break to be with my geek. 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 09/04/2025For years, I’ve been making my kids sit through geeky things I like. My oldest is always game. In return, I’m now being dragged into the anime world, cuz she loves it. 100
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Rested. Recharged. Ready to go back to the classroom tomorrow. 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Had to put my book down to avoid the fact that I think one of my fave authors is gonna kill a character I really like. Finally watched Heretic. I’m totally here for the character actor era of Hugh Grant. 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 29/03/2025A dystopia loving dad and his musical loving daughter finally sat down to watch O’dessa tonight. Killer songs, and lots of great visuals… just a little bit too much going on. 100% a vehicle for Sadie Sink though. 010
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 17/03/2025I’m so glad I was too busy to watch Yellowjackets until tonight, because I now have less time to wait until the next episode. That ending!!!!!!! 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025That noise you just heard was my gasp at the wonderful news that Neil Blonkamp is adapting Starship Troopers. 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025I often do my own thing when we’re out shopping as a family. Found a graphic t sale, bought each of us one… buying my youngest the same shirt she was wearing was pretty funny. 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 08/03/2025I have a little under an hour before I have to take my kid to a dance performance, and I just dropped into my cozy reading chair, got settled, and realized one book is on the other side of the room, the other upstairs. Le sigh. 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 08/03/2025The gel are good too, but I really like the OG. Rollers are good too. They also don’t smudge easily. (Highly dependent on the surface you’re writing on. No smudge on paper.) 130
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Longtime team Sharpie here. The pens, not the fineline markers, are bold, clear, and permanent, but don’t bleed through. Team black ink, though I will mix in some blue to keep life interesting. 110
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025A little early insight into tomorrow’s Moving Writers piece… I can’t seem to write the word ekphrastic without spelling it with an x instead of a k. 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Yep! Coming into play as we look at Fahrenheit this week! 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 26/02/2025This is one of my favourite problems as a teacher. I’ve got more great things to do than I have time. Whether I like to admit it or not, retirement looms. Need to figure out how I can turn my love of planning into a gig after I’m not in the classroom everyday. 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 26/02/2025A colleague asked me if so could find an activity we had developed together. It took some digging, but I found it. A folder I kind of forgot about. And that folder was full of other stuff we’d developed, & I’d forgotten about. 100
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Like, I finally got a copy of this. Damn. 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025The bookmail today was very much on brand. (I’ve been filling in a couple holes in my poetry reading lately.) 110
Reposted by doodlinmunkyboyJoseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 15/02/2025You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language. —Joseph Brodsky 2318112
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 15/02/2025My wife is out of town, so I could rip into two new episodes of Yellowjackets without guilt. So much I love about this show, but the music choices just have all of my heart.media.tenor.coma woman wearing glasses is talking on a cell phone and the words now we 're talking are next to herALT: a woman wearing glasses is talking on a cell phone and the words now we 're talking are next to her 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 11/02/2025My oldest has expressed some interest in photography, so I did a couple of searches, just to see what might be available. Algorithms are feeding me nothing but camera content now. 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 10/02/2025I hope the ghost of Stompin’ Tom Connors haunts the hell out of whoever is behind that Tim Horton’s commercial. 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 06/02/2025First week of the semester with report cards due on Friday. It almost didn’t happen. 010
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 06/02/2025If you’re thinking that it’s the first Wednesday of the month, and there wasn’t a Mentor Text Wednesday post at Moving Writers today, it’s also the first week of the semester and your boy had a lot to do. It’s there now. 100
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Laughing at my croak of a voice as my cold ravaged throat is feeling the effects of singing along to banger after banger on the drive back from swim practice. (Thankfully, no students tomorrow.) 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 28/01/2025I have such a love/hate relationship with this week because it’s hard to exist with a foot in each semester. Waiting on the last writer of this exam while prepping stuff for next semester. 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025When I worked at a smaller school, we gathered data on our frequency of interaction with each student. We realized there were a number that received very little attention from us. One in particular, almost none. Weirded him out when we made the effort, but he got used to it! 100
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025I get that your favourite players can’t stay with your team forever, but I’m gonna miss Wolitarsky in @wpgbb.bsky.social blue and gold. 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Malanka usually means emcee duties. But it’s a great spot to watch my daughter dance. Prepped a stack of bad jokes, one liners and another stack as a prop, but there was no stalling needed. I guess I’m prepped for the spring concert. 000
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Is it just me, or has Monday this week had 96 hours in it? Like, this is the Garfield origin story Monday. At least the calendar suggests that tomorrow is Friday. 010
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025I think about this too. Is it a “game day” or “this actually matters” mindset? Like they’ve got the tools, but really only break ‘em out for the Big Jobs… 010
doodlinmunkyboy @doodlinmunkyboy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I love the challenge of finding the way to overlap a curriculum with what I know, and what my students need. 010
