Tag: seth perry
From The Classroom: The MVA Diaries, Part 3
Hey everyone, Seth here! Did you see part 1 and part 2? This is the third and final column in a series about the MVA and why the environment over there needs to change. Previously I talked about the place, and the process, now I’m going to talk about… The people: There are some friendly [...]
From The Classroom: The MVA Diaries, Part 2
Hey all, it’s Seth. Did you catch the first part of my MVA diatribe? This is a series of columns about the unfriendly environment at the MVA–and why we need to change it. This is the second in the series, which was broken up because it runs over 2000 words (which, incidentally, is the approximate [...]
From The Classroom: The MVA Diaries, Part 1
Note: This series is broken up into three parts due to its being too long–kind of like the lines at the MVA. So check back tomorrow and Thursday at 4:00pm for the continuing, never ending saga of the MVA. Just like the real thing! Well, it’s about that time. The state of Maryland considers me [...]
From The Classroom: A Night On The Town–Prom Edition
What’s up, Annapolis? Donald Trump has just declined to run for president, leaving me with about three columns worth of material that is no longer usable. But, of course, the great city of Annapolis is great at providing a wealth of things to write about, even if it can’t figure out what to do with [...]
From The Classroom: Your Future Congress
Mecca. Pilgrims stream into the city like red ink onto Sarah Palin’s high school essays. They crowd the marketplaces, buying baklava and baba ganoush and other foods with gratuitous amounts of the letter ‘a’. They gaze up in awe at the temples and mosques, the places where their prophet walked, the paintings and mosaics worn [...]
From The Classroom: Friday
<–Be sure to share the Friday insight from Seth with your facebook friends and twitter followers with the icons to the left, because it’s Friday, Friday! I like to use this column to educate the older folks, those not on facebook or just feeling generally out of touch, about the sorts of things that create [...]
From The Classroom: Seth Perry’s Market House Thoughts
Up on Capitol Hill, John Boehner is proving that he is only good for two things–crying, and being an adequate stand-in for families who have forgotten to buy a Halloween pumpkin. Under his leadership, the government has lodged itself between a rock, a hard place, and a bunch of angry voters. They’ve most recently found [...]
From The Classroom: A Final Modest Proposal About Snow
Hey Annapolis! So here’s the third in a series of satires about school closings. Last week, I poked a little bit of fun at overprotective parents who would have school closed for every little thing…and this week, I’m having a little fun with parents who always want to have school open, no matter what the [...]
From The Classroom: Yet Another Modest Proposal About Snow
As promised, here is my first of two ‘modest proposals’ (yes, modeled a bit on Jonathan Swift’s immortal one) about the recent school closures due to snow. This first one pokes fun at the overcautious parent who starts demanding that schools close when he or she sees the first snowflake. Don’t fret, overbearing moms & [...]
From The Classroom: RAVENNNNNSSSSSS
Whenever the Ravens make the playoffs, Maryland might as well be one big tailgating party. A quick Saturday trip around Annapolis Harbor Center was enough to paint a beautiful picture of Annapolis’ purple-and-black pride—on a day when the Ravens weren’t even playing, no less! The cars in the parking lot sported Ravens flags and stuck-on decals, [...]
From the Classroom: Seth Perry’s Top 10 11 Of 2010
Well, the duplicate sweaters have been returned, the Christmas cookies are beginning to double as mold colonies, and, by the grace of God, I’ve got almost a year until I have to resume fabricating answers to my little siblings’ questions about Santa’s existence. This downtime after Christmas is a good time to reflect on certain [...]
From The Classroom: If You “Like” This…Nothing Will Happen
Last night, I had a crazy dream. And not the kind where Jessica Alba takes her shirt off. I was observing some sort of religious ceremony. It was in…you could call it a cathedral, but instead of extensive Sistine-Chapel type murals of angels and cherubs and the Virgin Mary holding God Jr, the ceiling was [...]
From The Classroom: Hypocrite Harris And Other Reasons Students Would Make Better Congressmen
I have a business opportunity for anyone who is interested. It should only take a little bit of cash infusion to start it up, and should immediately begin booming and producing countless profit. Ready for this? A new clothing line of “Miss me yet?” shirts featuring Frank Kratovil. If the voters in District 1 haven’t [...]
From the Classroom: A Modest Proposal
What’s up, Annapolis? Is everything going well in your world? I’m certainly more chipper than I have been in recent days, not only because it’s Thanksgiving Break, but because last week I got an unexpected day off. Why? The power went off at my school. Now, I have to make this day up during the [...]
From The Classroom: Games On Trial
Hi there, Annapolis! I won’t be talking about the election, because frankly I wasn’t all too pleased with the outcome, so I might as well avoid it lest I turn into a fire-breathing rant beast. The part I am pleased about, though, is that all my election predictions were correct EXCEPT for the delegates in [...]
From The Classroom: Seth Perry’s 2010 Election Predictions
In the months leading up to the election I’ve made every possible effort to stay informed. I’ve scoured candidate websites, political blogs, and newspapers trying to figure out who the best candidates are. Then I realized that I still have another two elections until I can vote, which means all that my research has done [...]
From The Classroom: Seth Perry’s 1-Year Special
Facebook users: Please share this story with your facebook friends by clicking the “recommend” button above! I owe it all to Craigslist. That’s never a good thing–after all, if you’re indebted to Craigslist, they could force you to buy all those ugly oriental rugs that no one seems to want. But the fact is that [...]
From The Classroom: The Homecoming Game
I used to be a huge fan of country music. As of now it’s more of a passive interest, mostly because it’s never quite caught on with my friends, and because I only recently figured out that Garth Brooks’ “That Summer” is actually about a teenage guy hooking up with an old woman. (Still, play [...]
From the Classroom: Seth Perry’s Thoughts on Primary Outcomes
Well, we’re well into September. My generation is dragging itself out of bed into school instead of out of bed to work in the food service industry. And just as the teenage nation is returning to its natural habitat, another group is coming out of hibernation: the politicians. With these primaries, we’ve seen the beginning [...]
From the Classroom: Seth’s Thoughts On Campaign Slogans
NOTE: This is an opinion piece of the author. Statements made are in no way an endorsement (or non-endorsement) of any candidate by Eye On Annapolis. Hi there, Annapolis! After a brief summer hiatus, your resident teen commentator is back. I think it’s a good idea for sites like this that are trying to get [...]
From The Classroom: A Perry Patriotic Fourth
Hey there, Annapolis! I’m Seth Perry, here to provide you with coverage of another local fourth of July parade–one with no pepper spray, fistfights, and police brutality (darn guys we pay to walk around with guns, always being violent). Yes, the parade down in Shadyside was a fairly peaceful affair, and, of course, it reminded [...]
From The Classroom: Intro To Summer
What’s up, Annapolis? Summer is fast approaching, and the only people happier than the sunscreen companies are my people, the teens, who have been cooped up in school all this time, and will now be cooped up even longer than expected due to overcautious school administrators snow. I can’t think of anyone who isn’t excited [...]
