Geek of the Week

(An unconventionally sweet and awesome honor!)

Naleka Sayaloune

After each unveiling of Geek of the Week, Naleka Sayaloune (like something out of Where the Wild Things Are) stomps his terrible feet, and flexes his terrible muscles, and yells his terrible yell until I say “Enough” and tame him by staring into his crazed eyes without blinking once. Then he implores and bribes and cries and whimpers to be a Geek (kinda funny for a fella sporting such muscular girth). I heartily laugh and say someday...well someday is now. Naleka Sayaloune’s poetic caricatures, The Chadron Tales, produced such commanding and articulate measures, I as his instructor had no alternative but knight him with the esteemed honor. Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English Literature, would have wept with pride at Naleka’s use of enjambment, end stops, rhyme schemes, and iambic pentameter. Congrats Naleka Sayaloune...English Geek of the Week.

Geek of the Week

(An unconventionally sweet and awesome honor!)

Andrew Smith

Looking at Andrew Smith, a fine young lad, the average ‘Joe’ or ‘Mary’ would say to themself, “Self, that Andrew Smith is a good and average lad. I bet he writes/illustrates good and average children’s texts for good and average juveniles.” Oh, how incorrect ‘Joe’ and ‘Mary’ are in their overtly biased and superficial assumptions about Andrew Smith and his authorial abilities. Andrew just finished writing an award winning children’s book; ‘Put Me In The House’ [a satire using Dr. Seuss's famed ‘Put Me In The Zoo’ as a medium] illustrates Donald Trump's’ attempts to garner the presidency. Was the text written for children...no, as the masterfully crafted elements of irony, sarcasm, wit, hyperbole, understatement, and paradox suggest. Will most adults understand the ultimate grandeur of the text...no, especially if their names are ‘Joe’ and/or ‘Mary’. However, Andrew Smith does a fine job with The Donald’s hair. Congrats Andrew Smith, English Geek of the Week.

Geek of the Week

(An unconventionally sweet and awesome honor!)

Emmy-Party Mills

Hey everybody, here is a sneak peek at part of an ‘original’ song about the current Geek of the Week, and why she earned this prestigious and sought-after merit...Enjoy!

It might seem cray-cray what I'm about to say.

Emmy’s here, you can’t say ‘Go Away’.

I'm all jacked up; she got a smile on her face.

Deuces in the air, like she don't care peeps by the way...

Emmy is happy!

Clap along if you want the Emmy-Party under your roof.

Emmy is happy!

Clap along if you feel like Emmy is a goof.

Emmy is happy!

Clap along if you know the Emmy-Party’s coming for you.

Emmy is happy

Clap along if you feel like the Emmy-Party’s something ya wanna do!

Congrats Emmy-Party Mills, Geek of the Week, for your always positive, progressive attitude.

Geek of the Week

(An unconventionally sweet and awesome honor!)

Mikaela Hastings

Oh please! Don’t judge me. I’ve tried to find a flaw...even fabricate a flaw in Mikaela Hastings. She has missed a total of 16 points...ALL FREAKING QUARTER PEOPLE...not on one assignment or one unit, but on everything. I even sent her to the office to pick up some copies, gave a quick assignment to the class without her knowing (praying for a zero next to her name in the gradebook, so I could publically laugh at and criticize her), yet somehow she still managed to complete the exercise. Is she a Demi-god, cyborg, use drones, have access to Patriot Act...How?  I even cheated! Simply, she makes Senior English look easy, and Mikaela’s perfection is straight-up ruining my street-cred. The only flaw I am able to find is the spelling of her name...who spells Mikaela without a ck? Which, in reflection, is more of a parental flaw than personal defect...Oh, the agony! Congrats girl who misses nothing Mikaela Hastings, Geek of the Week!

Geek of the Week

(An unconventionally sweet and awesome honor!)

Josh Redfern

The 1974 film Where the Redfern Grows follows the physical and emotional growth of a boy and his redbone coonhounds in the Ozark Mountains of Oklahoma. In the end, the hounds tragically die and everybody in the world cries when a redfern (plant) grows upon their grave site. Cinemagraphically in Hollywood-land, the story needs to end ripping everyone's heart out; reality dictates a different story. The ‘Redfern’ in the title is actually Josh Redfern. In reality, Josh Redfern saved the boy who fell on the hatchet (completing a miraculous field surgery), punched the puma (which killed Old Dan his lead dog) in the face saving the hound and inadvertently saving Little Ann who died of a broken doggie heart. Post his superhuman efforts, Josh Redfern returned to Chadron High and ACED his Vocabulary Unit 1-4 Review Test. BAM-WHAT! Congrats Josh ‘Where the Redfern Grows’...English Geek of the Week.