January 2012
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Ten Children's Lit Titles on the Shelves of... →
In which I speculate wildly on Edwardian children’s classics and which of them you should read. Written for a dear friend’s blog, featuring two of life’s best things: mildly soapy British period dramas and children’s books. Behold.
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“In an otherwise civil discussion of “Downton Abbey’s” second season, actor Hugh...”
– [via] He’s as honorable as I dreamed, but his disapproval stings.
[We actually haven’t downloaded it, but certainly the impatience is totally wearing on us.]
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“Imagine someone is used to maybe going to the office, working, making phone...”
– Uganda: Basua community battles for survival
The interview from the tribe’s king suggests he really cares about his people. I hope they are able to find help and a new way of life before it’s too late.
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Tug-A-Lu: Nice sentiment: In the era of big boxes,... →
tug-a-lu:
From the Miami Herald, Wed, Jan. 25, 2012
By AMY SANCETTA Associated Press
The idea started with Jim Black, a resident of Chagrin Falls, a close-knit village in Cleveland’s eastern suburbs that is part artist colony and part bedroom community. Black posted the email to a group of his friends. “Let’s show our support for one of our local businesses,” he wrote. “I challenge everyone to...
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I think I could make a pretty good SAT vocabulary prep course out of Decemberists lyrics. There’s a starter list here, but I would have to add their many synonyms for pants as well as Meloy’s frequent use of “panoply.”
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disaster biscuits
These, but:
really runny homemade yogurt for buttermilk
bacon grease for shortening
350 degrees instead of 450 because the oven started smoking so you have to use the toaster oven instead and it won’t heat past 350.
And despite all that, they are still very good, and a lovely meal to eat with cheesy scrambled eggs after a snowy bus ride home from class.
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Francie from Gilmore Girls loves Downton →
OMG, KIRSTEN, HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS?!
I was pleased to realize the other day that the squeaky-voiced doctor on Grey’s Anatomy voiced Quinn’s Fashion Club friend Stacy on Daria, but I read this article and didn’t even notice the GG/DA connection. Clearly, I have to up my game.
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Custom Week #7 (continued): Chocri
The chocolate we ordered from Chocri on September 30 finally arrived yesterday (along with a giant box from my dad, so yeah, set for life). Apparently they had trouble with their system. And never check their email. Also, I received an email that addressed me as Kimberly. I don’t know how to chalk that up to language barriers.
But the chocolate is great. In a $10+/bar kind of way. I made one with...
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mouse wars
“Timid” might as well be my middle name. (Instead, it’s Grimm, so there you go.) So yesterday I felt pretty proud of my many small victories:
started to review HTML and set up my portfolio webpage for my first XML assignment.
made a really good supper with a little happy-pig sausage, which I bravely removed from its casings, even though it was really extremely gross to do so.
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“What is that half smile all about? Why is she talking to me in that soft,...”
– Emily Nussbaum, “Dear PBS: The Laura Linney ‘Downton Abbey’ Intros Are Freaking Me Out”
[To be fair, though, I have weirdly and personally loathed Laura Linney ever since The Life of David Gale traumatized me. Also, she is taking away time from the longer, British cut of the...
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I feel like gmail takes liberties with my contacts by letting me track people I don’t really know on my chat bar. I feel like a creeper knowing when a tumblr contact or a coworker or a classmate is online, but as soon as I hide them, Google discovers a new almost-stranger to throw into the mix. There are maybe a half dozen people I ever talk with on gchat; can’t we leave it at that?
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“I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I...”
– Shauna Niequest, Cold Tangerines
(might be time for a re-read soon, or at least to suck it up and buy her not-so-new followup)
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thelifeguardlibrarian:
When I was at Oxford, we spent a lot of time at the Eagle and Child as it was right next door to our college. Sharing bar stool space with C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien never really lost its magic. (Confession: I knicked a pint glass and a menu. The menu’s in my box of memories-to-be-someday-scrapbooked.)
When were you at Oxford?! I studied there Michaelmas term 2007....
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“We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, born today in 1892. (via thelibrarianontherun)
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