November 2011
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-6) →
The Fray (10)
Naughty By Nature (9)
Vanessa Paradis (9)
The National (9)
Sara Bareilles (8)
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October 2011
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) →
Lil’ Wayne (58)
Alicia Keys (25)
The Avett Brothers (16)
Avant (15)
The Throne (14)
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June 2011
3 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-5) →
The National (17)
The Black Keys (16)
Dixie Chicks (16)
Sufjan Stevens (13)
Hanson (10)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-29) →
Sufjan Stevens (16)
Glee Cast (16)
The Beatles (15)
Alkaline Trio (13)
Natasha Bedingfield (11)
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May 2011
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“I stopped taking drugs [in 1983]. There were a lot of things that led up to it....”
– Michael Stipe - Interview Magazine
This is maybe the single most revealing interview with Michael Stipe I’ve ever read. I strongly recommend reading it in full — there’s a lot to chew on, both in him discussing his past and what he’s trying to do with R.E.M. these days. (via perpetua)
Agreed. I...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-22) →
Glee Cast (5)
Sara Evans (4)
Sufjan Stevens (4)
Alkaline Trio (4)
Britney Spears (4)
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Bones Post-Mortem: It Wasn't Laziness on the Part...
Bless Michael Ausiello and his post-mortems on TVLine.com:
TVLINE | What impact did Emily’s pregnancy have on this story? Would you have gone this route regardless?
Emily being pregnant certainly figured into it to a certain extent. But [series creator] Hart [Hanson] and I were leaning toward this independently of that. The biggest problem we faced going into Season 7 was how to get these...
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OHMYGOD! Bones! Yes! Finally!
Sorry if this seems like a spoiler, but just wait till you see it.
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Final Grades
Final grades for my ENGL 1102 are as follows:
4 A’s
13 B’s
4 C’s
Final grades for the classes I took are as follows:
A
A
S (satisfactory, for thesis hours)
So basically, I’m all done with the semester and I still have a 4.0 (cross your fingers that I didn’t just jinx myself). My class grumbled a whole bunch because I graded them harshly, but I...
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Student Paper: "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy...
Favorite sentences:
“…Frost tells the story of a traveler who has many things to do before he stops. This relates to readers because important or not this man has a to-do list that must be accomplished before the day ends, like most of America’s work force on a daily basis.”
“This line and the next few could lead someone to believe that this poem is about Santa...
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One of my students is writing about the incestuous relationship between Estha and Rahel in The God of Small Things. She compares it to other incestuous relationships:
Many popular books and movies today discuss incestuous relationships; for example, in the Harry Potter books it is revealed that brothers Fred and George Weasley have an incestuous relationship.
Huh? Her next relationship...
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40 Literary Terms Every Bookworm Should Know →
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“Somewhere, according to one of his five wives, was a man who loved sunflowers,...”
– Our obituary of Osama bin Laden. (via theeconomist)
Maybe it’s important to remember that all terrorists do not start out monsters and are not monsters twenty-four hours a day. Maybe it’s important so that we understand how terrorism takes root.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-8) →
Gin Blossoms (8)
Beyoncé (6)
Glee Cast (5)
Rosi Golan (1)
Band of Horses (1)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-1) →
Glee Cast (59)
Aqualung (35)
The Weeknd (31)
Janet Jackson (13)
Ray LaMontagne (13)
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Washington Post Opinions: Why do Americans still... →
A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists, and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to be. On basic questions of morality and human decency — issues such as governmental use of torture, the death penalty, punitive hitting of children, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, environmental degradation or human rights — the...
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Forbes: Why the Story of Osama Bin Laden's Death... →
Matthew Herper of “The Medicine Show” notes:
The narrative of exactly what happened in the compound in Abbottabad where U.S. Navy Seals shot Osama bin Laden continues to shift. Based on research into how well human memory works, we should expect that to continue.
On Tuesday, The Atlantic complained about “the slippery story of the bin Laden kill.” This morning, The New York Times...
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Graduate School is Costing Me a Lot of Money
I just found out that next year my student fees will be $1485 and my student insurance will be $1598. Together, that’s $3,083. I make only $9,000 and this will not be going up at all. So basically, once I pay my fees, altogether I’d make less than $6,000. I feel defeated today.
This school advertises itself as a school that waives tuition for most, if not all, of the MFA grad...
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Reasons why I should be forced to move every year:...
Without having to move out and thoroughly clean every year, my apartment constantly gets what my mother calls “a lick and a promise”—a promise that I’ll do more later. Chlorox wipes are my greatest weapon in cleaning. But then again, I did get down on my hands and knees and scrub our kitchen floor today. That’s gotta count for something, right?
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To Do List, Finals Week Spring 2011
Graduate Classes (Due Wednesday, May 4):
Write 10-page apologia
Revise 11-page essay
Revise 75-page play
ENGL 1102 Class I’m Teaching (Due Tuesday, May 10):
Grade paper #2 revisions (approx. 19 left)
Grade paper #3 revisions (approx. 21)
Grade final papers (21)
Calculate final grades
In between that: trivia night, Prom (the movie), MFA Prom (end-of-the-year party), my...
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Smarter than she looks →
bibliofeminista:
Rhodes scholar finalist, graduate from Stanford University with honors, Harvard Law School student, news anchor, author of 4 books, Executive Director of foundation for veterans … this list of accomplishments brings a certain image to mind, and that image is not a 20-something year old woman wearing a tiara and walking down a pageant runway with a bouquet of roses. Yet, these...
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“The pep rally atmosphere is not the image or message the White House wanted to...”
– Margaret Warner reports that there is concern among White House officials about the image celebrations over Osama bin Laden’s death present. More (via newshour)
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MSNBC: US tracked couriers to an elaborate bin... →
It started with a courier’s name.
Senior White House officials said early Monday that the trail that led to Osama bin Laden began before 9/11, before the terror attacks that brought bin Laden to prominence. The trail warmed up last fall, when it discovered an elaborate compound in Pakistan.
“From the time that we first recognized bin Laden as a threat, the U.S. gathered information...
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Let's keep in mind that the video of crowds...
themattsmith:
This whole thing just leaves me with uneasy feelings. I mean, I get it. I’m not opposed to the killing of Bin Laden. I can’t possibly understand the emotions of someone more directly affected by 9/11 than me right now. But let’s maybe cool it a little bit with the “Rah Rah, We’re #1, Fuck You Terrorists!” bullshit that was partially responsible for getting us hated in the first...