July 2009
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June 2009
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So I officially graduated today, at long last. My...
A concert for which I would drive to Milwaukee →
It’s Saturday, October 17. Any takers?
(Also, Charleston friends: I highly recommend this show. You rarely get good acts at the Music Farm, but this would be amazing.)
R.E.M. - “Radio Song”
We watched a...
“You know who you are, you Michael deniers, listenin’ to your The Cure or...”
– Ray Smuckles’s “Emergency Michael Jackson Essay”
Onstad feeds my soul with accuracy.
Muscles - “Ice Cream”
Once Craig...
Though we're far apart, you're always in my heart
We had Thriller growing up, and I remember all the music videos, and I really wanted to buy HIStory when it came out, but really, my favorite Michael Jackson memory is when my sister and I used to sing “You Are Not Alone” to each other. She was 16; I was 12.
The bridge begins as follows: “Whisper three words and I’ll come running.”
My sister and I interpreted it as...
“I noticed a couple of very attractive women, both of them Republicans, in the...”
– RIchard M. Nixon to George H.W. Bush, 1973.
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Weather-appropriate businesswear
Tomorrow I have an occasion for which I must dress business-professionally. I bought a suity sheath dress back in January for such an occasion, and I’m probably going to wear that. The only thing is: the dress is wool and angora. It’s not excessively heavy, but it’s still wool and angora. And the high tomorrow is 91.
Tumblrs, I need your help with this. I’ve always been...
Pulp - “Common People”
So I picked a...
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Solid Gold - Get Over It
Goin to...
Will the day ever come when I bake a peach pie...
Someone needs to warn the kids that the novelty songs that are popular when they are twelve will never leave them, ever.
"Tellingly, Picoult does not see herself as a... →
I’ve never actually understood why anyone would want to read Jodi Picoult, but I’ve never liked to watch SVU, and I never really got into Lurlene McDaniel (you remember, the kids-with-cancer YA books). My mom and my sister and all of their friends love Picoult, buy her novels in hardback, and read them eagerly. I’ve always found what I’ve read and what I’ve heard of...
Duran Duran - “A View to a Kill”
On...
Calexico - “Across the Wire”
Minneapoliversary
Two years ago today I drove my little packed Civic into downtown Minneapolis for the first time, expecting the population number on the road sign to add one as I rode past.
So yeah, I love it here, and I’m celebrating today by attending Rock the Garden, where I will see some bands (CALEXICO!) and some cool kids and wear my cowboy hat and try not to get sunburnt and drink beers. If I see...
Martha Reeves & the Vandellas - “Nowhere...
I have never been to Athens, GA, but it holds a... →
So the Georgia Theatre fire makes me really really sad.
A similar sentiment comes from the illness of Walter Cronkite.
1943 Guide To Hiring Women →
saramcpherson:
6. Give the female employee a definite day-long schedule of duties so that they’ll keep busy without bothering the management for instructions every few minutes. Numerous properties say that women make excellent workers when they have their jobs cut out for them, but that they lack initiative in finding work themselves.
This is why I never trust “studies” or...
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Alvin & The Chipmunks - The...
The best buddy movie ever.
Last night, drawn to its Michael Ian Black and Simon Pegg-penned script, I watched Run Fatboy Run. It was supercute, if pretty dumb, and I learned that (OBJECTIFICATION ALERT) Hank Azaria has a really rockin’ body. (This was a surprise because I expect people to look like the cartoon characters they voice.) Also: Dylan Moran! Yes.
Anyway, a couple weeks ago I watched Ricky Gervais’s...
Out of sorts
The second or third thing I do every day, before I open the computer even, is make my bed. It makes me feel put together, even when my room is messy. (Note: I am not always the tidiest person.) I can’t leave the house with my bed unmade.
So on the mornings when I wash my sheets, I feel extremely disoriented, like the world is out to get me.
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Today’s Wednesday Morning Dance Party is not...
In honor of Bloomsday
I didn’t actually enjoy reading Ulysses— I found it pompous and overblown, which is why I will never read Infinite Jest or Gravity’s Rainbow—but I took a class on it my senior year of college so I could be a real lit scholar and argue with the people who loved Ulysses and thought there could never be anything better. (I am spiteful, and I’ll probably read Proust for...
Megan Carpentier sums up the whole Sarah... →
And you should click on all of the links, especially Katha Pollit’s.
The weather for the past two days has been enough...
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Beaching it, Minneapolis style
What I miss most about the East Coast (besides my family): relatively easy access to the Atlantic. We were never a huge beach family, but once or twice a year we’d head to Cape May, NJ, or Rehobeth Beach, DE, and spend some time by the sea. I miss the people in ill-fitting swimsuits (you know, before the widespread days of cheaply designed Targetwear), the terrible seagulls, Grotto Pizza and...
Clubs in "The Song of the Lark" of which I want to...
The Progressive Euchre Organization
Lifter Puller - “Space Humping...
“Mrs. Kronborg was frying doughnuts for her husband’s supper. She laughed...”
– Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark.
This made my ovaries twitch and established that it’s pretty likely one of my children will be named “Thor.” Doughnuts, ice cream, and motherly advice are going to save the day again.
Pulp - “Acrylic Afternoons”
How is...
Baba ghanoush →
Oh, hey, what’s up, AP Stylebook? Yeah, I miss teaching with you. You know, using you as a platform to discuss how we talk about race and gender was always an interesting convo. You’ve gotten lots better at that in the past few years, so good job. Also, congrats on the online pronunciation guide. However, my former university will probably take three to eight more years to purchase the...
