October 2010
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September 2010
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“Some students on the Busch campus in Piscataway seemed dazed by the turn of...”
– This has hit me hard tonight.
Kids can be cruel, Can you imagine?, Maybe we should all do this, yada, yada, yada.
I hope your souls find peace, Tyler, Dharun, and Molly.
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Hit me with your best shot
Which one of these is my best chance to get on Oprah? Please advise.
#1: Clean Your House Naked and Wonder If It’s Normal?
Are you — or is someone you know — a housewife who does chores in the nude? We’re looking for Oprah viewers who clean in the buff and have always wondered if this behavior is normal. Has this habit made you ask yourself, “Am I normal?”...
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Did you know Pay Day is the worst game ever? I played it for a couple of hours with two 8 year olds and it was just depressing! Bills, loans, and stress. I live month-to-month, paycheck-to-paycheck in real life; I don’t need a board game to drill home the fun! (Although I did win, so yeah.) Also: there’s nothing more sobering than one of said 8 year olds walking in on you and Daddy at...
I normally do not like short story collections, but I am now reading Colm Tóibín’s Mothers and Sons and loving it. Reminds me of the tide: each story swells up, wetting your feet and tangling a bit of seaweed on your ankles, before inching back and flowing away, returning to whence it came, leaving you to watch it fade away, knowing it will return soon as something very similar but also oh...
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WatchSing it, StarSong.
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“But who cares? We’re nobodies! It’s our job to buy things. Who ever said that...”
– Story of a generation
It renews my faith in Tumblr that Stritchy got more likes and reblogs than Zefron yesterday. There is hope for this world, after all. That is all.
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Watching the Oprah Show...
A is only watching because Jon Stewart was on the first half. Liza’s up now, and Oprah is showing clips of her as a youngin’ with her mother.
A: What?!? Liza Minnelli is Judy Garland’s daughter?
Me: Um, yes, how do you not know this?
The clips show Judy Garland as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.
A: Wait a minute! Judy Garland is Dorothy?
Me: …
A: I had no idea!
Me:...
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A Little More Night Music
stephenrettger:
[Stritchy] mentioned in one of her pre-opening interviews how central the mother-daughter relationship was to her approach. Here is an Mme. Armfeldt who loves her daughter too much to let on. Desirée is getting older; life in even her shoddy tours is becoming less certain. And so Mme. worries. She worries that Desirée is going to wind up alone. She knows the strength that...
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Set your DVRs. This is going to be EPIC. →
“VerseByHeart, which is billed for use with Bible passages, will drill you on any...”
– Oh you godless liberal New York Times
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UrlAi: Who are you? →
luckypaperstars:
“Text analysis: luckypaperstars.tumblr.com is probably written by a female somewhere between 26-35 years old. The writing style is personal and happy most of the time”
Guys, I’m blogging ABOVE my age level. I always knew I was advanced. This makes me nervous about America.
Whereas I’m blogging as Elaine Stritch, which, I guess, was to be expected:
Text Analysis:...
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WatchOnly in America Oregon.
WatchIt is during moments like these that I wonder why I live in New York City.
Welcome (back) to New York City!
Riding the 6 train this morning, I felt rather conspicuous (and icky?) reading Freedom. I’m more than half way through and enjoying it but feeling rather disappointed that so far there is only one (!) non-white character and zero (!) non-heterosexual characters. This was expected and not surprising but disappointing nonetheless. This thought was particularly acute on the train today where,...
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“Joyce and Ray’s neglect of Patty, however much it stung when she was...”
– Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen
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