February 2012
99 posts
Feb 28th
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23 Free Essays & Stories by David Foster Wallace... →
“9/11: The View From the Midwest” (Rolling Stone, October 25, 2001) “All That” (New Yorker, December 14, 2009) “An Interval” – (New Yorker, January 30, 1995) “Asset” - (New Yorker, January 30, 1995) “Backbone,” An Excerpt from The Pale King (New Yorker, March 7, 2011) “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men” (The Paris Review, Fall 1997) “Consider the Lobster” (Gourmet, August 2004) “David...
Feb 28th
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Feb 28th
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“Take their coming out to you as a holy moment. A holy moment where they, as your...”
– When Your Child ‘Comes Out’ To You
Feb 27th
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Feb 26th
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Feb 26th
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Feb 26th
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Remember that time I moved to Pittsburgh and listened to “Flashdance” for four of the seven hours it took to make the drive from Virginia? (Basically, I stopped at the Haggerstown Dunkin Donuts on the way to my parents’ today and have been full of feelings ever since.)
Feb 25th
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Feb 25th
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“There’s a grotesque irony in declaring that what is portrayed in Bully...”
– ‘Bully’ Problems: The MPAA Gives A Scarlet ‘R’ To A Thoughtful Documentary : Monkey See : NPR
Feb 25th
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Run TV
At the request of Jamie Bono, I present to you my TV theme song playlist (running version). (I’ve been collecting TV theme songs since middle school—the complete collection is even weirder and more extensive.) Alice Ally McBeal (Full) Animaniacs Baby-Sitters Club Beverly Hillbillies Charles in Charge (84 ver) Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers David The Gnome Different Strokes ...
Feb 24th
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“My point of is that the infinite monkey theorem has slowly become a meme whose...”
– Image ◊ Good Letters: The IMAGE Blog ◊ The Infinite Monkey Meme
Feb 24th
Flavorwire » Aziz Ansari’s 25 Best Tom... →
Feb 24th
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“My birthday is coming up, so I’ve been thinking about Sally Rogers. Funny Sally,...”
– The Gift of Sally Rogers « Amy Whipple
Feb 24th
Tumblr Staff: A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs →
staff: One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable kind of expression. People being people, though, that means that Tumblr sometimes gets used for things that are just wrong. We are deeply committed to supporting and defending our users’ freedom of speech,…
Feb 23rd
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“karacupcakes replied to your post: A beautiful day at Chatham. I feel like a...”
– Truth
Feb 23rd
Feb 23rd
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On Being Blog: Do Nothing for Lent and Be Grateful →
beingblog: by Amy Ruth Schacht, guest contributor “Contemplation” (photo: Kasia/Flickr cc by-nc-sa 2.0) Ash Wednesday is today, inaugurating this year’s season of Lent. Cultural customs dictate “giving something up” for Lent. Without any meaningful or theological reflection, it becomes “giving up for the sake of giving up,” as though the mere act is enough. Is there more to it than just giving...
Feb 23rd
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“Blessed be the longing that brought you here And quickens your soul with...”
– John O’Donohue, “For Longing” Last night’s blessing at church, a wonderful way to begin Lent. I thought it might pair nicely with Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese.” (Thoughts?)
Feb 23rd
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TEDxCMU Gives Some of the World’s Brightest Minds... →
Moving’ on up!
Feb 22nd
“Procreation has unfortunately been co-opted into a very limited (and very...”
– Procreation, Birth Control, and Choice | onehandclapping
Feb 22nd
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“Lent dares us to expect much of the dark.”
– Image ◊ Good Letters: The IMAGE Blog ◊ The Flowering Dark
Feb 22nd
“HEY, EVERYBODY: You know how Mormons “baptize” dead people who weren’t...”
– February 22, 2012 : Savage Love | The A.V. Club
Feb 22nd
On Being Blog: Living in a Material World: Lent... →
Photo by John (mtsofan)/Flickr, cc by-nc-sA 2.0 Remember you are soil, and to soil you shall return. ~Gen. 3:19 The language of “spiritual journey” is commonplace in describing the season of Lent — the 40-day pilgrimage Christians undertake as they trek with Jesus from the wilderness to the garden to the garbage heap of Golgotha and beyond. “Spiritual” in this context, as in almost every other,...
Feb 21st
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“Humane Vitae, the so-called birth control encyclical promulgated by Pope Paul VI...”
– Contraception Furor v. Catholic Realities | Sexuality/Gender | Religion Dispatches
Feb 21st
The Making Of "Homer At The Bat," The Episode That... →
Feb 21st
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“But back to the ways in which you are amazing… You are here. That may seem...”
– Actively Arielle: A Voice With A Commitment: You’re Invited to a Celebration
Feb 21st
I haven’t had a pre-7am coffee date since high school. In retrospect, I’m surprised that Friday Frapps ever happened. Actually, in retrospect, I’m surprised that most things ever happened.
Feb 21st
“But though I could not with a crayon get the best out of the landscape, it does...”
– G.K. Chesterton, “A Piece of Chalk”
Feb 20th
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“To eat of the fruit means to leave the garden because the fruit speaks of other...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are not the Only Fruit
Feb 20th
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Feb 20th
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“Heterosexuals opted for the one-lifetime house, the freeway, the birth-control...”
– Richard Rodriguez, “Late Victorians” One of my favorite lines ever in one of my favorite essays ever.
Feb 19th
“And, do I even need to bring up Issa’s committee regarding the birth control...”
– Women matter. «
Feb 19th
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WatchWatch
Really!? with Seth and Amy — birth control.
Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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“Either way, it’s misguided because …it’s not our tent. It’s God’s tent. The...”
– My testimony at the Colorado Senate Judiciary hearing on civil unions | Nadia Bolz-Weber
Feb 19th
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“Just as the patriarchy kept women oppressed by telling us we need men to care...”
– Loving Women | onehandclapping I think about this a great deal w/r/t to my friends who have new babies. I can’t think of another time in your life when you would need more help (perhaps on the other end when you are getting ready to go) and yet I see my friends pushing that help away in the...
Feb 19th
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“My daughter is 10 years old and has come home on more than one occasion...”
– You Didn’t Thank Me For Punching You in the Face « Views from the Couch
Feb 19th
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“Whether each one of us actually lives this way is beside the point. This is what...”
– A Priest, a Levite, and a Samaritan walk into a bar… | landon whitsitt (dot) com
Feb 19th
Feb 18th
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Feb 18th
Rachel Held Evans | 40 Ideas for Lent (2012) →
I get loathsome of Lent because it frequently turns into New Year’s Resolutions Part II, and what I see/hear from people is more about, basically, dieting, rather than a spiritual pursuit. Because I’m not a better person, that means I usually opt-out of Lent just so I don’t have to deal. This list, however, makes me think that maybe I could choose at least something spiritual to...
Feb 18th
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What the African American Museum can learn from... →
What makes a museum work is pretty much what makes a story work. Perhaps this should come up in class next week.
Feb 18th
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Flavorwire » Tupelo Hassman’s Guide to Getting... →
Feb 17th
“The pressure of the lava is what led me to food and alcohol and semi-madness,...”
– Fifteen » Momastery
Feb 17th
“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”
– E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web I was describing Charlotte to the girl-child and maybe started crying while doing so.
Feb 17th
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Girl-child: That's not fair!
Me: Why? Everyone else has to wipe their own butts.
Feb 16th
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Apparently, there was a time in my life when I was feeling moneybags enough to use a $5 bill as a bookmark in The Year of Living Biblically.
Feb 16th
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How I Met Your Mother
Katie: "I need a clove."
Robin: "You smoke now?"
Lily: "Aw, remember cloves?"
Feb 16th
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That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
Feb 15th
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