Three Things About Archer

Three Things About Archer Shelle Klein Houser 2/11 '15

1. He made Honor Roll for the second marking period.

2. He got his first detention. He was one minute late to Consumer Science Class (Home Ec, basically). His Mother thought it was a stupid detention, but also emphasized the importance of treating teachers with respect, even when they do things we think are stupid.

3. There's a sound in Sweeney Todd, I call it the "razor scream". If you've ever seen the show, you know what I'm talking about. If not, it's in the first three seconds of this video. It sounds sort of like a human scream, but there's also something mechanical about it, and they play it during the Ballad of Sweeney Todd and also when he slits someone's throat.

Anyway, I have never been able to figure out what is making that sound, not which instrument, but what actual thing in the story. Last night we were talking about the play and Archer said, "That's the sound of the razors screaming in his head, driving him mad and urging him to kill."

Yep, that's what it is all right.

2/11 '15 15 Comments

1. Love that kid.

2. Love that kid.

3. Love that kid.

Hmmm... noticing a theme here.

Matt Lichtenwalner

He loves you too.

Shelle Klein Houser

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I read that as "Home Egomaniacs."

Thomas Boutell

Home Animaniacs.

Shelle Klein Houser

Home Macroeconomics. Final exam: estimate the number of butterick patterns that will be botched this year in Home Economics classes.

Thomas Boutell

That's a great idea - making the punishment part of the class. Actually it was pretty much his Dad's fault that Archer was late - Archer's boots were at Cora's, Cora didn't want to drop them off at the house so he told Archer to take them to school. Archer's backpack is already really packed with school stuff and they have small lockers, so managing all of the stuff in the locker with the volume of the boots added took Archer longer, hence the lateness. It kills me that I actually saw this coming (not the detention exactly, but a problem w/the stuff management) and asked Cora to bring the boots over when she picked up Archer tonight, but she had him pack them in his backpack anyway ...

Archer is currently doing a unit on manners and the fact that most fascinated him was that 5000 people/year go to the hospital because of injuries due to falling into toilets when people don't put the seat down. It's terrible, but also hilarious.

Shelle Klein Houser

I completely believe that statistic.

Rabbit

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In another life I would be a history teacher and sneak down to your home ec class (both of you) on cookie day.

Shelle Klein Houser

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Thank you. We talked about the play a lot, actually - about which characters were most evil and least evil and why, which characters were the sanest, which characters were the craziest, which characters had each of the seven deadly sins (his idea) ... it was a really fascinating conversation. We rarely get the time to sit down and discuss a work of art in depth like that - we're usually too busy with homework, chores, other crap.

Shelle Klein Houser

yep. That's what I was going to say.

Beth Adele