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» In Between
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Or at least my contribution. Nov 11, 2013. Pretend I’m Charles Dickens. Are you doing it? I don’t want you to just give me lip service. Don’t hue my words with the knowledge that I want you to think I’m Charles Dickens, without truly believing it. Pretend that I am one of the most well-known writers of the last 200 years. Go. Or is it when the rings go on your fingers? Or when you say, “I do,” during vows? But one of person has to say it first, and they can’t be married by themselves, right? By Tina Fey ...
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» Everything Indicates He Did Not Shoot A Man In Reno
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Or at least my contribution. Aug 2, 2014. Everything Indicates He Did Not Shoot A Man In Reno. Given the setting, my absolute first thought was that it was the number of men he had killed. But you haven’t told me anything of those things yet, and no matter how much I’d rather not assume my fellow bus passengers to be murders, even for a brief moment, there it is. Like rent on the first of the month. Away with your delicious saltiness! Down with your simplified carbohydrates! Europe and North America....
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» How is Yo-Yo Ma like Anne Frank?
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Or at least my contribution. May 19, 2014. How is Yo-Yo Ma like Anne Frank? Imagine a young Thomas Jefferson. A freshman in college at his local state school, he can’t grow facial hair to save his life and is a bit awkward with the ladies. That’s not much of a problem though, as most colleges won’t go co-ed for over 200 years and facial hair is so. Sided paper, thinking he’s written the next, or well, first, Declaration of Independence. Tears It. Apart. It’s not that TJ is ahead of his time and isn’t bei...
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» “I find myself in your words”
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Or at least my contribution. Jun 21, 2014. 8220;I find myself in your words”. There is a threshold whenever you meet someone new between rehearsal and creation. Me: “Oh this heat! You: “I know! Me: “At least it’s supposed to be cooler this weekend.”. Me: “Lovely to meet you! Where are you from? What do you do? Will we at any point here say things we both haven’t said before? Me: “Oh this heat! Me: “Bubbles remind me of my dad issues. Could we spoon while I talk through some of them? At one point, Claudia...
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» Love Across a Platform, or The Stories We Tell Ourselves
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Or at least my contribution. Dec 14, 2014. Love Across a Platform, or The Stories We Tell Ourselves. I was running late last week. I was rushing to catch a concert up in Queens, and I had not properly factored in stopping by an ATM to my travel time. I hate being late. So I stormed down into the subway and blindly onto the wrong platform. The correct platform, the one with. You see, Spunky Girl, like many spunky girls, drew the source of her spunkiness from other people in the world pouring love out towa...
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» Watch the Movie First: Cloud Atlas
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Or at least my contribution. Feb 6, 2014. Watch the Movie First: Cloud Atlas. The journal of a man dying on a 19. Century ship. A quick-tongued composer’s letters to his lover in early 20. And that, at least, is one of my points. I’d love us all to have the literary fortitude to be comfortable powering through Melville’s Moby Dick. Or Wallace’s Infinite Jest. But clearly we don’t. It takes over 300 pages before Cloud Atlas. Starts to tell you the secrets and benefits of its construction. Mitchell giv...
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» Wherein I talk, not ironically, about wisdom from a commerical
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Or at least my contribution. Feb 13, 2014. Wherein I talk, not ironically, about wisdom from a commerical. And their jibs and jabs at peasant life couldn’t be the source of idle musings around the dinner table, which also functioned as the family bed, toilet, and shuffle board, from which I could acquire better self-awareness. I don’t know how to embed videos because I suck at blogs. Dealing with being an adult means, in part, coming to terms with the day in, day out. And chose the best ones. Louis CK sp...
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Or at least my contribution. Posts by Joseph :. Aug 27, 2015. The little is different from the big. I’m reading a new book, “Payback” by Margaret Atwood. It’s Margaret Atwood, award-winning novelist, writing a more or less non-fiction book about debt. I know, right! Thank you, Library of Congress organizational system. The opening of the second chapter, “Debt and Sin,” begins with the following paragraph: “Debt is the new fat,” someone said recently. […]. Dec 14, 2014. Aug 2, 2014. Jun 21, 2014. 8221; Me...
