CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Freshmen Can’t Graduate

    This is my blatantly self-promoting, braggadocios, and sarcastic speech to the Alexandria Senior High Freshman Academy awards ceremony (Academy Awards, yeah): Good morning. I want to thank the faculty for the opportunity to speak with all of you about the importance of education and the journey that you are all now embarking on together. I know it’s still a little early, so I’ll try not to put ALL of you to sleep. When the late, great novelist David Foster Wallace, who wrote an amazing book called Infinite Jest, was asked to deliver a commencement address at Kenyon College, he began…

  • The Best of Elliott Smith

    This seems appropriate:

  • Better Yet

    You can give to Helping Hands for Haiti, a Utah-based charity (whose office in Haiti was destroyed by the earthquake) that specializes in on-the-ground medical care and supplying medicine and artificial limbs to disabled Haitians. Their most recent, most-earthquake update: Healing Hands for Haiti deploys first response team with Handicap International Five volunteers from Healing Hands for Haiti International from Canada and USA will be forming an early response team to join Handicap International and deploy to Haiti.  Dr. Colleen O’Connell (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation specialist, Fredericton), Al Ingersoll (Prosthetics, Minneapolis), Frank Shirley (Orthotics, Boston), Carly Gray (Physical Therapist, Ottawa),…