Writing Today
See you after MA class, perhaps. “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
See you after MA class, perhaps. “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
I’m so, so lucky that I have a good roommate.
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Oh, sweet fuck. It just occurred to me, listening to some other sites with audio posts: I can combine the best of Drunk Dialing with Drunk Blog Posting. Oh, the shenanigans!!! This entire media form was made just for me! Post your slurred, drunken rants to your blog at four am on Valentine’s Day! Yay!!!
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On September 4 1967 the New York Times published an upbeat story on presidential elections held by the South Vietnamese puppet regime at the height of the Vietnam war. Under the heading “US encouraged by Vietnam vote: Officials cite 83% turnout despite Vietcong terror”, the paper reported that the Americans had been “surprised and heartened”
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No shit. It’s too bad I’m not more of a talker, but you know, a couple times a month I could see myself calling… myself, to bitch. And you could all share in the fun! Just think: long, bitchy rants from me, in my voice! With the proper intonation for “fucktard”! So great.
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This Could Quite Possible Be the Best Show Ever. But, it’s not. Cause the Scifi channel keeps fucking it up. The premise is this: humanity is being systematically wiped out by “Cylons” – robots who come in several designs, some of them human. As most of their planets have been blown to bits, that last
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I have no trust in these studies, because there are so many other factors at work, but reading this stuff always pleases me: Not only red wine but also white wine, beer and hard liquor appear to protect against mental decline in older women, two new studies have found. I’m going to live forever!
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The Republicans have simply stolen the standard way Hollywood sells movies, which is bring in the men and the women will follow. The idea in selling movies is this: Stuff your movies full of good-looking women and violence, market directly to young men and they will drag their girlfriends to see it. And the girlfriends
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Amusing thoughts from the other side of the pond.
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A 2002 Time-CNN poll found that 59 percent of Americans believe that the prophecies found in the book of Revelations are going to come true. Nearly one-quarter think the Bible predicted the 9/11 attacks. Drive across the country with your radio tuned to the more than 1,600 Christian radio stations, or in the motel turn
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