December 28, 2005
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One of many sad consequences to choosing gang life is that you spend less time in school, and less attention when you're there. The "Thug Life" boasts a glamor of sorts, but it scorns most of the basic disciplines one needs in life, in order to be taken seriously by anyone besides teen fans and the police. Like spelling.
Being a writing tutor, and having been an editor in the past, perhaps I pay too much attention to spelling and grammar and such. But when you can't spell the name of your own gang (in this case, "HARPYS"), I'm sorry, that's pathetic.
("D.E. 13" is short for "Dead End 13th St.", or The Dead End Gang, which was subsumed by the larger Harpys later on, or morphed into the Harpys, or something. The D.E. was accidentally begun by an urban missionary, in fact, in the early 1970s... but that's a different story)I had a lot of help painting over it!
