This is the greatest day of your life

Sweet Fancy Moses! Look what day it is!!

Yes! This is a real thing! Today is National Manatee Appreciation Day! Hug your local manatee!

Militant manatees?

Snuggly manatees!

Manatee wants to ask you a question

Can you even deal with Manatee Day? 

Persepolis FTW!

We hope you enjoyed your small taste of the awesomeness that is Persepolis. We encourage you to seek out either the graphic novel or the animated film. You will not be disappointed. 

If Persepolis isn't your cup of chai, then take a leap of faith and seek out another graphic novel title. Amazon has some good recommendations as well as some other online resources. Embrace the future!

STAAR Wars continued...
We want to wish best of luck to our sophomore homies as they show the state of Texas has to DOMINATE. Be persuasive my friends... be persuasive.

I'd tell you the name of the test I took, but you've never even heard of it. 

Cover week continues for this week's soundtrack

We're going to switch things up a bit for today's cover song. One of my favorite Bruce Springsteen songs is "The Ghost of Tom Joad". This is Springsteen at his quiet best. Using Steinbeck's Grapes of Wraith as his inspiration (the song title is a reference to that novel's main character), Springsteen indicts the economic plight of America's underclass. it is tragically beautiful. Here's the original:

While Springsteen infuses the song with quiet resolve, today's cover version cranks the anger up to 11 and shouts in the face of oppression. What else can you expect from one of the best political bands of the last few decades, Rage Against the Machine? Here is today's cover song, Rage Against the Machine covering Springsteen with "The Ghost of Tom Joad".