July 2010
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The rise of the new agnostics. - By Ron Rosenbaum... →
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Thoughts after seeing the sing-a-long showing of...
1) Anyone who would actually see a sing-a-long showing of Grease most assuredly doesn’t need the words to the songs. This audience can probably also recite the dialog. (And there was no need to have bolstered songs to encourage the audience to participate. Again, anyone who would show up to this would actually sing.)
2) Whoever was responsible for putting the lyrics on the screen probably...
The $2 camisole: How cheap is ruining our lives -... →
magic fla →
Hospice medical care for dying patients : The New... →
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Thoughts after seeing the sing-a-long showing of...
1) Anyone who would actually see a sing-a-long showing of Grease most assuredly doesn’t need the words to the songs. This audience can probably also recite the dialog. (And there was no need to have bolstered songs to encourage the audience to participate. Again, anyone who would show up to this would actually sing.)
2) Whoever was responsible for putting the lyrics on the screen probably...
Gay adoption: The kids really are all right -... →
Are the American people obsolete? - U.S. Economy -... →
“We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It’s as simple and...”
– Michael Cunningham, The Hours (via dariusdarling) (via wordpainting)
6 Great Novels that Were Hated in Their Time |... →
Going Rogue - The Rumpus.net →
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"Perhaps the World Ends Here" - Joy Harjo
The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what,
we must eat to live.
The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the
table so it has been since creation, and it will go on.
We chase chickens or dogs away from it. Babies teethe
at the corners. They scrape their knees under it.
It is here that children are given instructions on what
it means to be human. We make men at it,
we...
Packing Hell
thecoastisclear:
I have seventeen thousand tank tops and I need all of them.
I have an entire dresser drawer of nothing but tank tops, and I can never, ever seem to make that not true.
YouTube - PARENTING: WE GIVE A DAMN →
Flavorwire » The Definitive Mad Men Summer Reading... →
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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than...”
– Anais Nin
What We Know, and Don’t, About Children and Junk... →
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Sweet Valley Confidential
Okay, guys. I signed up on the website and received/read the first chapter. And, of course, they’ve already suckered me in, and there’s another eight months before the damn book is released. I have so many questions, including, but not limited to: why are Jess and Liz not speaking and why are Liz and Bruce Patman bff?
Also. If this takes off, are they looking for ghostwriters? I will...
Sweet Valley Ten Years Later →
OMG, you guys!
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“…all of whom had perfect hair and perfect bodies. Perfect, that was, in...”
– Sweet Valley High Senior Year #28, Meant to Be
What are you doing to me with your meta-commentary, SVH?
The shocking new normalcy of the stay-at-home dad... →
American TV: Still not ready for an abortion -... →
HTMLGIANT / Enough is Enough: The Slushpile is Not... →
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Because @JudyBlume is on Twitter
Toward the end of every June, right around that time I would have been dismissed from school for the year, I reread Judy Blume’s ode to complicated girl friendships, Summer Sisters.
[Do you think of this book every time you hear “Dancing Queen”?]
The early summers in the book remind me always of the many summers I spent at our neighborhood pool (much in the style of every suburban...
“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via wordpainting)
1) I’m in graduate school for writing; 2) my goal in life since I was four was to have my own library (turned into a double want four years after when I saw Beauty and the Beast); 3) looking at my books provides an immense feeling of security and comfort;...
Pure-food worshippers put their health at... →
Ode Magazine : Your brain is a rain forest →
Are Women Priests As Bad As Child Molesters? |... →
Why The Baby-Sitter's Club Is Better Than... →
Ship buried in 18th century unearthed at WTC site... →
The READ: You Wouldn’t Like Her Angry | The New... →
AmericanHeritage.com / Philadelphia Story:... →
The U.S., Argentina and gay marriage - Glenn... →
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“Have you ever noticed that there are few things in the world, short of actual...”
– Sabrina Matthews
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You Might Have Missed...This Noisy Egg →
Someone at my own journal let me review a book of poetry. I keep not understanding why people let me review books.
“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play...”
– Annie Dillard (via aperfectcommotion) (via katelynk)
This is, actually, why I more or less don’t care for Annie Dillard. I always feel like I’m being suffocated.
Is Shirley Jackson a great American writer? -... →
The Return of the Great Cornholio →
smoking while writin →
montessori grad school →
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I Write Like... →
Different chapters of my thesis draft include Nabokov (essay on teen shows), Joyce (essay on ER), Chuck Palahniuk (essay on television feminism), and Stephen King (essay on school shootings and the Care Bears). That is certainly interesting and probably not even a little bit true.
