Snowed In

I'm peacefully contemplating the Hudson as I try to prepare a unit plan on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice which I'll be teaching 12th graders next semester. While I enjoy Austen's works (Persuasion in particular is a favorite of mine) for their psychological insights and nuanced presentations of how status was lived in Regency England, I also think they're open to parody. Especially since for allies like myself, "pride" and "prejudice" can connote rather different things... making me wonder why there haven't been drag performances/adaptations of Austen's works. Many of the female characters remind me of NFL receiver-divas.

Speaking of both the NFL and bad weather, lame-duck Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell has complained about the fact that Sunday's Eagles game received a snow-inspired reschedulement for this evening. As far as I'm concerned, any extra night with football is a good thing. (Unfortunately, the NFL is generally restricted in terms of days it can broadcast as a term of the AFL-NFL merger.) While Rendell, who claims he paid people to throw snowballs at Cowboys fans during the "Bounty Bowl" Game in 1989 (which incidentally raises rather than lowers his popularity in Philly) may have credible tough guy credentials, for a politician anyway, I think his rant's a little extreme... Stay classy Philadelphia!