January 2012
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December 2011
41 posts
Asim is ranting about unicycles.
– Blogged for posterity.
Robert Reich: My Political Prediction for 2012:... →
robertreich:
My political prediction for 2012 (based on absolutely no inside information): Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden swap places. Biden becomes Secretary of State — a position he’s apparently coveted for years. And Hillary Clinton, Vice President.
So the Democratic ticket for 2012 is Obama-Clinton.
Why…
There are certain things about women that men will never understand, in part...
– -“The Glory of Oprah” by Caitlin Flanagan was picked by The New York Times magazine as one of their top #longreads of 2011. And from this paragraph, it’s easy to see why.
(I liked this article, but I don’t love Oprah. The side analysis, as in this paragraph, is where the real meat...
Mom Sends Packages
Mom: you got the 8 lb one, the 25 lb one is on the way!!!
Gloria: oh jeez
Martha: pretend you are carrying Soph and a friend of hers
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Countdown!
Days until move: 1
Days until Mom comes for Christmas: 6
Days until Christmas: 9
Days until New Orleans for New Years: 13
EVERYTHING IS EXCITING!
In Which We Are Different
Mike: i am trying to avoid getting recruited to do christmas decorations
Mike: workworkworkwork
Mike: i am sooooo busy!
Gloria: we are having an office decorating contest
Gloria: it was my idea
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Go put on your brave face and do all that stuff that you do. This day will fade...
– Vistas, Dooce
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The 50 Best Colleges & Universities →
Speaking of W&M, while I love The College, I don’t know how large the bribe must’ve been to get the #5 spot on this questionable list.
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Scene Outside College Library Looks Like Walmart... →
Oh, W&M. Of course. You’re so cute. (((tribe pride)))
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One more from Miranda July’s It Chooses You (excerpt):
I thought about his sixty-two years of sweet, filthy cards and something unspooled in my chest. Maybe I had miscalculated what was left of my life. Maybe it wasn’t loose change. Or, actually, the whole thing was loose change, from start to finish—many, many little moments, each holiday, each Valentine, each year unbearably...
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July, July! It Never Seemed So Strange!
I’m not sure how I missed this, being both a Miranda July fan and an avid reader of the New Yorker blogs during slow work days, but apparently in October, the New Yorker Book Bench blog posted several excerpts from Ms. July’s It Chooses You, her sort of memoir that came out in November. I found a lot of lines that I connected with and, had I read this in a book and not on the Internet,...