January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
12 posts
This Happened
Last night, Adam and I started to watch the latest House that we DVRed. The intro is always some stranger getting sick, and in this intro, we were intrigued that so MANY new characters were being introduced in the episode. There was a British Indian woman working in a lab, a 14 year old girl on a first date, and a man making breakfast for his family. Is this episode about an epidemic - are all...
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Jonathan Franzen's Kenyon Commencement Speech on... →
To listen to later…
mascarah:
I’ve posted excerpts of this several times. If you get a chance turn off Spotify and listen to the 8:20 of this amazing speech. You won’t regret it.
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September 2011
16 posts
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Joss Whedon: Feminist
Interviewer: So why do you write these strong female characters?
Whedon: Because you're still asking me that question.
why I'm bad at personal blogging
I’ve never been very good at personal blogging.
My writing has always been one way or the other - I’m either writing academic papers, book reviews, or creative interviews, or I’m writing in my journal. And, I have the type of journal that is password protected in a neat little folder, saved on an external harddrive. What I mean is, it is digitally locked.up. Like, I don’t even want anyone to read...
August 2011
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