In my ENGL 101 classes today, I had my students bring in offensive song lyrics, since we're now talking about free speech issues. I got a full-fledged education from them along the lines of Insane Clown Posse, Korn, Necro, Afro Man, and Lil' Kim. I pretended like I didn't know a damn thing about "popular" music (which wasn't hard, because I didn't know much about Afro Man, for instance) and the students gave me the low down on everything. I had them pretend to be censors, and they had to find offensive lines and explain why they were offensive. We had an amusingly good time, although it was hard to get them to be serious, because most of them thought it was perfectly fine that Korn sings a song with the line, "Kentucky Fried Kung-Pao Clits..." and they just stared at me when I was like, "Uh, I am the only person in this class who is slightly revolted by this particular description of the female anatomy?" Clearly, I am unhip. Or maybe they don't know what a clit is.
Billy Joe Bob -- we must continue this House of Leaves discussion. Paul tells me that if you take the first letter of certain sentences, it spells out other stuff. Paul was decoding it for awhile. I don't know how far he got. Any advice?
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