January 2011
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One More Thing About My Recently Stolen GPS--
I had begun referring to it as “my lady love,” as in the following exchange, during which there is no one else in the car:
GPS: Turn… LEFT on… Santa Monica Boulevaaard. Raphael: Thank you, my lady love.
This personification has made its sudden disappearance emotionally confusing, but on the plus side I now get to say things like, “An errant rake has stolen my lady...
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“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom;...”
– Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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“Jerry Seinfeld used to have a routine about the television commercials for...”
– via Natasha, this fascinating four-year-old essay on pregnancy and abortion and adoption and blood.
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“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from...”
– MLK jr.
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You're the star of a movie, and this is the part...
This is one of those movies about growing up and at the same time remembering what it is to be young and careless and in love. When the movie starts, you’re in this deep funk, you think you’ll never love again— at least not in the way you did when you were young. You’ve resigned yourself to a life of settling, and you’ve convinced yourself: This is what being an adult...
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The OUR HOUSE X OUR HOUSE Project
ATTENTION, INTERNET:
I am looking for a mashup of the song Our House by Madness and the song Our House by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, because today I wondered to myself if such a thing existed and decided that it must, because the internet.
And if it doesn’t, then it should.
So I put it to you, people of the World Wide Web: find this thing for me, or make this thing for me. It...
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This was posted back in September, but it is still very relevant today!
notesfromthepatriarchy:
The other day I went to visit the school where I student taught last year. Last year, half of my students were English Learners and many of my students received free or reduced-price lunch. It is an urban public school which has been struggling to raise standardized test scores, having been...
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Morning Becomes Eclectic has got to be the most public-radio-y pat-yourself-on-the-back-for-getting-it name for a radio program anyone’s ever come up with.
“All right, people, let’s brainstorm. I need a name for a show that references a work by a major 20th Century American playwright.”
“All My Songs?” “The Ira Glass Menagerie?” “Three Tall...
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WatchThis is my first time uploading a video to tumblr. FOR BEST PLAYBACK, once you start it, hit pause, let the video load all the way, and then hit play. Also, for best playback, imagine we’re eating chips together in an old British pub. (Chips means french fries.)
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Every year I keep a running tally and ranking of how much I like every movie I see because apparently I...
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Hey, jerkwads, did you think that just because 2010 was over I would not tell you what I thought of the new Jeff Bridges movies? Ha, not hardly. I’ll be catching up with 2010 movies probably through Oscar season, so if your New Year’s Resolution was to read less of my opinions about movies, well, that was a stupid resolution, you really phoned it in this year, reader of my blog that I...
