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Calling It By Its Name: The E! Channel Investigates A Common Place
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Calling It By Its Name. Specializing in serious discussion of seemingly trivial things. Monday, July 6, 2009. Channel Investigates A Common Place. First: "E News" interrupted "Chelsea Lately" with the "Breaking News" that Michael Jackson's funeral may or may not have begun. Like it was a tornado warning. Seriously. Second: The "E News" lead story that followed "Chelsea Lately" was "what made Debbie Rowe lose it on the paparazzi? Well, as you can see from the video here. But when said person touches you?
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Calling It By Its Name: You Too Can Be Proud of Yourself For Not Discriminating Against the Disabled
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Calling It By Its Name. Specializing in serious discussion of seemingly trivial things. Tuesday, July 7, 2009. You Too Can Be Proud of Yourself For Not Discriminating Against the Disabled. So, if you've been to a movie theater lately, you've probably seen this. Spot from the Foundation for a Better Life. If you're unable to follow the link, here's the gist:. Well yes, that one lovely young woman with Down's Syndrome was voted Homecoming Queen by her class is wonderful for that particular young woman.
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Calling It By Its Name: April 2008
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Calling It By Its Name. Specializing in serious discussion of seemingly trivial things. Wednesday, April 9, 2008. Random Acts of Literature. Nearing the completion of my Master's Thesis, I've begun reading whatever I please - which, luckily for me, happens to coincide with the depths of American Literature. I randomly picked up Two Years Before the Mast. 160;which is the 1840 account of a Harvard/Cambridge student who went aboard a ship in order to give his failing eyes a break. Links to this post.
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Calling It By Its Name: Google says ...
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Calling It By Its Name. Specializing in serious discussion of seemingly trivial things. Thursday, July 30, 2009. Yet again, the Google Ads associated with my blog deserve mention. Check out this evening's:. Um I'm not even sure what to say about this one! So what about my recent posts has triggered the "desperate older lady" and "lonely couch-dweller" facets of the algorithm? Peculiar, to say the least! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. 16 months. (Posted Late). My aim is true.
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Calling It By Its Name: July 2008
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Calling It By Its Name. Specializing in serious discussion of seemingly trivial things. Friday, July 4, 2008. Moda, M-O-D-A, Moda! What better way to re-inaugurate my blog than with a revue of the newest furry addition:. What the heck does that name mean, you ask? 160;Your guess is as good as mine. When she showed up at the Charlottesville SPCA two years ago (after being rescued from a shed in a trailer park) someone gave her that name, and it's stuck! 160;If you have suggestions, I'm all ears. I haven&...
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Holding Out For That Teenage Feeling: A retreat into the kitchen
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Holding Out For That Teenage Feeling. Journals are so last year. Monday, November 15, 2010. A retreat into the kitchen. I make excuses to myself for the writing. I think about how I need to move over to fiction, but I have no characters, nobody alive in my brain except the me me me. I even jotted down some notes on the bus a few days ago. I wrote a little elegy for my grandpa on his birthday in mid-October. I’ve maintained good conversations and I’ve read some great books. Andrea Literature = Love.
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Holding Out For That Teenage Feeling: June 2010
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Holding Out For That Teenage Feeling. Journals are so last year. Sunday, June 13, 2010. We have the internet now! We've been without since Memorial Day, and here's something I wrote in the meantime that I thought would make a good blog. Title coordinates to the below: I would never forget my internet purchase. 8220;Do you need a bag? 8221; the girl had asked after a particularly flustered transaction. I’d spoken softly and dropped the pen and any other number of insignificant gestures. 8220;Purchased for...
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Holding Out For That Teenage Feeling: Volcanoes and Grocery-Store Tulips
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Holding Out For That Teenage Feeling. Journals are so last year. Monday, April 19, 2010. Volcanoes and Grocery-Store Tulips. So I sucked it up and stayed in London.sounds tough, I know. I got home and divvied the flowers up in the kitchen and common room. No one had arrived home from work yet, so I was quite pleased with myself, the empty house, and the flowers and curry supplies. The food went over famously, but standing in the kitchen with three males, all of a sudden, I found my tulips being mocked!
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Calling It By Its Name: February 2008
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Calling It By Its Name. Specializing in serious discussion of seemingly trivial things. Friday, February 29, 2008. A Lost Odyssey: Dedicated to the Memory of Poor Furry Eloise. So, if you don't watch Lost. The new mysteries. Here are just a few compelling questions that have been raised:. If you don't watch the show skip the part below, don't ruin the surprises for yourself:. What's Kate doing with Claire's baby? Is Aaron the fifth member of the Oceanic Six? Unstuck" in time business - I think it's aweso...
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Holding Out For That Teenage Feeling: February 2009
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Holding Out For That Teenage Feeling. Journals are so last year. Monday, February 16, 2009. Meatloaf Cupcakes and Everything that Followed. I had a dear friend in town this weekend. It being Chicago in February, we did what any sensible fun-seekers would do: we ate. Uncontrollably. Saturday involved brunch (quiche and juevos mexicanos and omelettes, oh my), a trip to the Garfield Park Conservatory, hot dogs, and a gourmet dinner at home- French onion soup broiled with baguette and jarlsberg, and a medioc...