April 2010
Did you guys know that door-to-door Mormon missionaries offer to do chores for you!? Two Ben Henricksons (except way cuter and less stupid, in the face) just came to my door and were all, ‘Hi, we’re here to share the Word and help you and your family reach Jesus’ and after I said No, thanks, on account of being a Godless Heathen (I didn’t say that out loud, but I am wearing...
March 2010
Three Things I Learned About Ira Glass on Saturday Night: 1. He loves Howard Stern and enjoyed ‘The Blind Side’ 2. He doesn’t tell stories at home, over dinner, because he’s not an insane person (his words! I promise!) 3. He’s three months older than my father but doesn’t look a day over 35 Obviously I learned other things, but we’ll leave it at that for...
suburbanmike asked: you got a pick in the final four? holler!
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Why hasn’t there been a Smiths/Morrissey week on Idol yet!? You know Andrew Garcia would be into it. Siobhan, though she’s fast becoming grating, could probably do a lot with ‘Suedehead’. Didi could do an acoustic ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’ that would showcase the prettiness of her voice.
Aaron Kelly could sing ‘Hand In Glove’.
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This is a whispery post because it’s for the ladies. I am wondering—how do yall feel about being ‘hollered’ at? When I lived in DC and walked everywhere I was regularly propositioned for sex acts by bros hanging around outside 7-11, and also one time a dude in what looked very much like a mailman’s uniform told me he wanted to ‘give it to me up the rear’,...
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“Thoreau folklore—or should we say fakelore?—Several years ago there was a rash of ascribing the invention of raisin bread to Thoreau. The newest legend is that Thoreau introduced the strawberry to Cape Cod. State Senator Michael Flanagan argued in the Boston Statehouse on May 10 that Thoreau stole it from North Andover and transplanted it to the cape.”
-Official notes of...
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“Design a room to be used as a reconciliation room for confession. Draw a floor plan and describe in writing the furnishings, decorations, lighting, and so on. Describe your reasons for designing as you did.”
Important spatial design exercise from Celebrating Sacraments, my 9th grade religion textbook recently unearthed from a box full of high school detritus.
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“She orders riceless sushi and dressingless salad.”
-From the important and erudite publication Cosmopolitan’s profile of Lady Gaga. This is information that makes me feel :-(, but is also supremely satisfying because when I was little and wanted to be a Journalist Reporter Woman, I really thought that meant I was going to write impossibly long magazine profiles (!) every week...
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jacqui: but don't go on an Othering Junket
me: do u want to start an academiacore band called 'othering junket' with me?
jacqui: yes
me: we can open up for vampire weekend
jacqui: am gonna learn SINGLE LADIES on uke and britta's gonna sing along in her tiny voice
jacqui: can be othering junket's first single
me: ok wanna know a big secret that might actually be really offensive to you?
jacqui: yes.
me: i h8 single ladies
jacqui: also i explained how/why is not automatically offensive
i don't usually find things Automatically Offensive
unless they include blackface?
me: that's the name of your side project
'automatically offensive'
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