Monster Scholar

The everday horror of my life presented in horror gifs. When I give my students a pop quiz When I realize I brought the wrong handouts to class. When I tell my students about the final exam. What the campus looks like the week after final exams. When a student e-mails me to ask if we did anything important in class.  What my office hours normally look like. What my office hours look like the day before a big assignment is due. When I tell a student they have to revise their entire paper. My face when a student asks for an extension on their paper. When I see my students after Spring Break When I see former students off campus When I can't go out with my friends because I'm grading. When I realize I haven't worked on my dissertation in two weeks. When I bump into my adviser and I haven't made any progress on my dissertation. How I will feel when I finally finish my dissertation.

This update of the 1960's show The Munsters revisits the monstrous clan of Lily, Herman, Eddie, Marilyn and Grandpa as they move into the creepy "hobo-murder house" on a sunny street in quiet middle America. A lot of what you love about the campy original series survives including the stair trapdoor and the theme song. The elements that do change are for the better. Marylin for instance is a lot creepier than I remember. Charity Wakefield plays her with a certain creepy innocence and despite her obvious handicap--sunny blond disposition and lack of obvious monstrosity--she is certainly a Munster through and through. Jerry O'Connell plays Herman like a modern version of the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz . He's a self-made monster with a bum ticker because he loves too hard. Finding Herman a replacement heart becomes one of the show's main conflicts. Far and away, Edie Izzard steals the show as Grandpa. He rocks a version of Gary Oldman's imperial red