Silent Cacophony is a sounding board for Chase March. Here you will find his podcast, book reviews, skatepark tours, teaching-related articles and resources, and much more. Please use the buttons on the home page to navigate to the topics that interest you.
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XL – Sadat X + El Da Sensei (on WIB Rap Radio)
Sadat X and El Da Sensei are legends in hip-hop. You may know them from Brand Nubian and Artifacts. Well, they have combined to form XL and have dropped a brand new collaborative album. They’ve worked together tons of times over the past 20 years, so it was only fitting for this to happen. The…
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Rap Used to Have a Conscience
When Rap Music Had a Conscience: The Artists, Organizations and Historic Events That Inspired and Influenced the “Golden Age” of Hip-Hop from 1987 to 1996 by Tayannah Lee McQuillar. Brother J of X-Clan writes the forward to this book that explores what is often referred to the Golden Age of Rap. Of course, the artform has…
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Harry Turnbull Skate Park (Sarnia, ON)
The Harry Turnbull Skate Park is located at 235 Maxwell St in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. It is definitely one of the strangest skateparks I’ve been to. The bowl isn’t all that functional. It’s hard to carve on it since it is shallow and quite long. And the three large concrete hills are quite bizarre. One…
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First Contact with First Nations
Teaching has taken me to some incredible places and let me experience all sorts of new things. I have learned a lot in my career and continue to do so. That is what my Teaching Tip Series is all about. This year, I started working for a new school board and had to return to…
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DJ Cummerbund and TempoMental (Word is Bond Rap Radio)
DJ Cummerbund is a mash-up artist supreme. He creates magic when he takes two things that shouldn’t go together to create a musical masterpiece. My favourite is when he took a hard rock song and turned it into a disco track. Can you imagine Ozzy Osbourne in Earth, Wind, and Fire? If not, press play and…
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Thames Grove Conservation Area Trail Run
I love exploring new places to run. Today, it’s Thames Grove Conservation Area in Chatham-Kent, Ontario. This boat launch looked nice. It made me wish I could go floating down the river on this lazy afternoon. Here is a little information about the Thames River, if you are interested. I didn’t stop long to read…
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The Hip-Hop Nutcracker Ticket Giveaway
The Hip Hop Nutcracker is coming to Budweiser Gardens in London, Ontario and you have a handful of chances to win a pair of tickets to see the show. It sounds crazy to put a hip-hop spin on the timeless classic, but there are some big names behind it. Kurtis Blow, the first rapper to put…
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What is the Opposite of Spoiled?
The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money by Ron Lieber I’ve never been good with money. But I have also never been spoiled. As a teacher, I am interested in teaching kids about money. Maybe if I understood the world of money better, I wouldn’t have to live…
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Remember Last November
Every month, I take time to dig through the archive to see what was happening last year at this time in a little featured called “Chasing Content.” Read all of the posts from Last November or just these highlights . . . An Education Disrupter Hamish Brewer calls himself an “Educational Disrupter.” Not content with…
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Unanswered Questions and Curiosity
One day, a little girl looked up towards the night sky and asked, “How did all those stars get up there?” Her dad replied, “We don’t really know.” She thought for a moment and then asked, “How did I get here?” Her father answered brilliantly, “That’s an equally puzzling question.” This was a story that author,…