April 2011
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Royal Wedding G-Chat
Alice: I will buy a DVD of this if it's $15 or less and watch it when I'm sad.
Katie: I will buy it at any price (really.)
Alice: Yeah. I'll spend more than that. Especially if it comes with paper dolls.
Apr 29th
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Apr 27th
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“Reading Brennan’s Long-Winded Lady pieces is like receiving postcards from the...”
– Elizabeth Gumport on Maeve Brennan at This Recording. 
Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 23rd
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Listenstaceyjoy: “Downtown” - Petula Clark As soon...
Apr 21st
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“Throughout the series, Bella never makes a decision at which an adolescent...”
– This is the best paper I have ever written.
Apr 19th
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Apr 15th
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Things I Plan to Say to the Undergraduates Whose...
“So, do you any of you still have, like, money left on your meal plans? Because I’m starving.”
Apr 12th
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I Just Finished Reading "Twilight" on Purpose, and...
By far the most frustrating thing about this book series is Stephenie Meyer’s ability to introduce interesting themes and plot twists coupled with her insistence on not carrying any of them through to their most narratively satisfying conclusions. The Twilight Saga is chock-full of shit that made me think, guys. Grotesque anti-feminist behavior. Ideologically-perplexing relationships....
Apr 11th
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“If I suspected the author was trying to show me how to be a better behaved girl,...”
– Beverly Cleary
Apr 9th
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Apr 9th
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Reading "Twilight" on Purpose: Book Four!
I wish I could feel triumphant about the looming end of my involvement with the Twilight series, but I am only on page 6 of Breaking Dawn, and there are 746 pages to go. I wish Stephenie Meyer had just given herself over to the creepy, haunting domestic violence narrative her subconscious so clearly wanted to write. By page 6, Bella has already expressed distaste for the marriage she has...
Apr 7th
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“Mr. Roethlisberger cited the couple’s religious faith and beliefs as the...”
– Ben Roethlisberger’s religion has weird priorities.
Apr 7th
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Katie: You know what we're called, right? We're called Whovians.
Kevin: Aren't those the people who live in Who-ville?
Katie: No. Those are just Whos.
Apr 7th
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Apr 6th
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Great Sentences in "Freedom"
My favorite sentence(s) in Freedom are on page 346, when Franzen perfectly captures Kids Today and the Way They Talk: “I’m just saying my hit-counter’s going crazy. I’m getting hot-linked all over the world.”
Apr 5th
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“Sheen is composing a live tweet. More comments from people leaving early:...”
– I’m saving this Entertainment Weekly live-blog of Charlie Sheen’s stage show to pass down to my children one day. “This is what America and its culture were like circa early 2011,” I’ll say. “Shut up, Mom,” they’ll say.
Apr 3rd
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Here Are Some Real Thoughts About April Fool's...
Every year, a 20-something woman of my acquaintance announces via Facebook that she is “pregnant” or “engaged” on April Fool’s Day, only to later reveal that—ha ha—no, she is not. This offends me on many levels, which I would like to outline below: The Level of Comedy: This is simply not funny. I refuse to believe that anybody could be so invested in...
Apr 1st
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Apr 1st
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