kagablog welcomes new contributor craig swanson
About Craig Swanson
Well it’s probably pretty easy to figure out the important stuff about me by looking at my cartoons and essays. What else? Well…
* I memorized T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland — with great annoyance to my friends.
* I have also memorized (among other things):
o elements of the periodic table,
o the Presidents of the United States,
o the Best Picture for each year,
o all 115 Supreme Court Justices, and
o I can draw a map of the U.S., one state at a time, in order of acceptance into the Union, freehand
o I can draw all of the countries in Africa, also freehand
(I’m studying to be an idiot savant.)
* I was born at 11:30 in the morning in Ridgewood, New Jersey on 26th May, 1961
* I learned my first significant lesson about justice in first grade. Whenever any of us were caught eating candy Mrs. Breece would always say “Did you bring enough for the whole class?” We would inevitably say no and she would make us walk to the front of the room and throw the candy away. Well one day I went into the drug store before school and bought an enormous amount of Big Buddy bubble gum — enough for the whole class. So during one of our reading lessons I deliberately took out some gum and began chewing. Since I was quite prepared for what would happen next, I chewed less surreptitiously than I might otherwise have. As I expected, she interrupted the lesson, asked me what I was chewing, I said gum, she said “Do you have enough for the whole class?” Dumping out the bag of bubble gum on my desk I said “Why, yes I do, Mrs. Breece.” She promptly made me throw it all away in front of the class.
Send comments to me at craig@perspicuity.com. I’d love to hear from you.
check out craig’s wonderful site perspicuity.com
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