Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Stories about the death of Heath Ledger are reporting that his babymama's father said this: "I think Tennyson got it right in the poem when he described someone as having died at a young age but burning the candles at both ends, and oh what a beautiful flame he made, ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Everyone's favorite diminutive erudite, The Little Professor, has executed a perfect triple lutz in her post titled The Academic Olympics. I myself once earned a bronze medal in the Bureaucratic Triple Jump, in which "Each competitor must fight back against a student grievance, which s/he contests in three different administrative ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
You can still get yourself clean in it if you shower. And the shower helps clean the tub up a bit, too.
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Let's play a game, readers! (If there are any of you out there yet.) I think of it as What is this a metaphor for? but I'm willing to accept suggestions for cleverer names. Here are the rules: I pick an object, describe it to you, and you tell ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
I've never read any Anne Sexton; all I know is that she's the über-Confessional poet and that she killed herself. Someone once said I look like her; I wouldn't know.I should say, rather, that I had never read Anne Sexton -- now, I suppose, I have. Somehow I came across ...
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