{"id":4733,"date":"2014-01-14T12:46:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T19:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/?p=4733"},"modified":"2014-05-02T14:05:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T20:05:14","slug":"brainstorming-with-ritallin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/brainstorming-with-ritallin\/","title":{"rendered":"Brainstorming With Ritallin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-4945.jpg\" alt=\"Copyright \u00a9 2014 Leroy Schulz http:\/\/www.leroyschulz.com\" width=\"799\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4735\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-4945.jpg 799w, http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-4945-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brainstorming With Ritallin <\/strong><br \/>\nFeaturing Greg Frankson, a.k.a. Ritallin<br \/>\nPoet, Media Personality &#038; Arts Educator<br \/>\nJanuary 14, 2014<br \/>\nToronto, Ontario, Canada<\/p>\n<p>Greg &#8220;Ritallin&#8221; Frankson has drive, like a car. Never envious, the only green he admires is in nature. As of late, skillful manoeuvring of the vehicle that carries him forward, spoken word poetry, has shifted him into a new gear as resident poet on the CBC Radio One show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/hereandnowtoronto\/\" title=\"Here and Now Toronto website\" target=\"_blank\">Here and Now Toronto<\/a> and a highly sought after arts educator. His membership on the 2012 Canadian team slam championship team is proof positive that the mileage on his body adds character to his reliably transformational and inspirational poetry.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><strong>Greg was a pot washer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gg.ca\/document.aspx?id=94\" title=\"Rideau Hall website\" target=\"_blank\">Rideau Hall<\/a> on the day in January 2006 when Stephen Harper was sworn in as the country&#8217;s Prime Minister.<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><strong>In March 2012, he was one of four national finalists in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/smartestperson\/\" title=\"Canada's Smartest Person website\" target=\"_blank\">CBC TV special Canada&#8217;s Smartest Person<\/a>. He finished third.<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><strong>If you look at the program from the official opening ceremony for St. Bede Catholic School in spring 1993, he was listed as a member of staff. At the time, he was a co-op student teacher in his final semester of high school (at age 18), and his name was included alongside those of his more senior colleagues.<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><strong>When he was in high school at Pope John Paul II CSS in Scarborough, he was in a hip-hop group with Juno Award winning rapper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.choclair.ca\/\" title=\"Choclair website\" target=\"_blank\">Choclair<\/a>. At the time, Choclair was going by the stage name Cirum B. Greg&#8217;s stage name in those days was Tony G. &#8212; a reflection of his legal name, Anthony Gregory Frankson. He did not become Ritallin until he performed in his first-ever slam in Ottawa in July 2003.<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><strong>He leaves you with this quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson:\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featuring Greg Frankson, a.k.a. 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