October 2010
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“Layne: Hey Ms. Connor, what does tyrannous mean?
Me: Read me the sentence....”
– from my exceedingly funny freshman year roommate Megan, who is teaching in rural south Georgia this year
September 2010
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question
where do you buy dress-up shirts for boys of around 24ish?
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“Now meal preparation begins with an assessment of what needs using up, whatever...”
– Living the Frugal Life: “On Meal Planning with the Garden”
[finding a lot to love on this blog]
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“The great thing about Anglicans is that we have no theology of our own; it’s...”
– N.T. Wright on The Colbert Report
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if you get the off-brand box of lucky charms,...
It’s like the marketers have just given up trying.
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“But if every sound you emit is a scream, a scream has no expressive value. What...”
– Philip Pullman, “Philip Pullman calls time on the present tense”
I definitely felt this way with the Hunger Games trilogy. Certainly it adds immediacy, but the feeling of being manipulated is all the more palpable. Plus, it makes it harder to read a book aloud.
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my boss just told me to take a walk around the...
I had told her that I kept fighting off the urge to lie down and move the phone down near me. So I ran, scaring the llama that lives in the field behind the gym, and now I feel much more conscious. Only forty-five more minutes of manning the desk and learning about content validity.
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“So my advice is this—don’t look for proofs. Don’t bother with them...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
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ugh, universe.
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Pam: I don't know, I try not to bother him about this kind of stuff.
Jim: You mean, like your thoughts and feelings?
Pam: Yeah
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pushing daisies is filmed in star's hollow
Don’t know whether I’m pleased or dismayed that I recognized it.
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“Indeed, marriage is a union much more than practical, for it looks both to our...”
– Wendell Berry, “Men and Women in Search of Common Ground,” The Art of the Commonplace
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kitten alligator snake
Spelling “Kasese” over the phone. One’s mind does strange things in a pinch.
(“E” was “elephant,” if you’re wondering.)
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hipster faith →
Good, balanced piece on the earnestness and silliness of a certain Christian counterculture.
“Enter the age of the Christian hipster. […] They sought a more intellectual faith, one that didn’t reject outright the culture, ideas, and art of the secular world. In typical hipster fashion, they rejected the corporate mentality of the purpose-driven megachurch and McMansion...
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“Love is what makes Katniss more than the Mockingjay, more than a killing machine...”
– “Why ‘Team Peeta’ Is a Feminist Statement (I’m Proud to Make)”
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So you know how sometimes you are walking down the...
librarianpirate:
I always want to look around for Dumbledore and his putter-outer.
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“Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand...”
– Wendell Berry, “Feminism, the Body and the Machine”
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clearly, the silverwonderful shoes have magical...
I got the job, and clearly the Rocketdogs are to thank for this success. Let us hope that the same can be said for the sister shoes of Caitlin and Shelby, who have excellent sartorial taste.
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At the age of 16, 80% of people have already met...
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ipomoea:
lemdi:
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vaguelyme:wackytobacky/celestecontradiction/mayellaraine/paiidriiches
This is one scary detail.
(via caseygrin)
i find that really really hard to believe.
but if it’s true… *mentally scans males i know*
… hmm.
HEY EMILY ITS DONALD
Ummm, I call bullshit. Who comes up with these...
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