tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168827452012-01-28T23:02:03.164-08:00"We DO Say Shit!"Kathleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00923975835078747456noreply@blogger.comBlogger8871100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16882745.post-87312802505412554652012-01-28T16:25:00.000-08:002012-01-28T16:25:45.189-08:00

Day 10: Downloaded training program from internet. Day 11: Received official Oakland Running Festival t-shirts in mail. Countdown: 57 days to go

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I am running in a race

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Revising Your Novel M Stiefvater Wins an Award Head Cupcake How Effective is your Corporate Secretary? SFF Authors Play D&D: recap Genre in the Mainstream: Swamplandia!  this is the February book for my book club Barcelona v. Real Madrid Match highlights Literatures of the Girl: An Interview with Kate Zambreno

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title lonk Day 7: wore trail running shoes to work. Walking to pub to demand refund for double-charged tab. Countdown: 61 days to go.

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Day 6: I'm reading a bunch of stuff on the internet Countdown: 62 days to go. Parks and Recreation  Parklets in SF. Which are the best thing ever. Sink your teeth into this charming indie zomcom, A Little Bit Zombie  "It's been a long time since a zombie movie has made us laugh." Best Street Art Work Selected in 2011  currently only 9 on the page instead of 50. Guess we need to buy the

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Day 4: put on new trail running shoes. Walk .7 miles to Trader Joe's to buy wine. Walk home. Drink wine. Day 5: shit. I am really going to have to start running aren't I? 63 days to go.

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The Power Stylists of Hollywood Oakland Running Festival All’s Fair in Love and War: Romance, and How It Sneaks Into Military Science Fiction Top Chef Texas, Ep. 11: Weren't You in Reindeer Games I can picture him standing in his dressing room before meeting Charlize and practicing saying hello. "Hi Ms. Theron, I'm Chef Tom, I'm a big fan of your Tom. SHIT. Hello, Charlize? Can I call you that

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Day 3: it is fucking cold and raining out. 65 days to go.

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Day 2: breaking in new trail running shoes with walk from car to diner. 66 days to go.

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Day 1: recover from food poisoning. Walk up stairs at BART station. Countdown: 67 days til race

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B and I are coloring. (a parasaurolophus to be specific) B: now you're coloring with green then I'm shaming with blue K: it's "shading" sweetie B: I'm shaving with blue

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my dear friend once told me of a time she was ill and her mother convinced her to take a shower. "It will make you feel better." Let's just say...it didn't end well. Today I decided that peeling myself out of my PJs after 60 hours and taking a shower would "make me feel better". I thought of my friend at the point when I realized I was using my dandruff shampoo as body wash.

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K: tomorrow is Thursday, that's Mommy's Work at Home day. So we get to be together tomorrow. B: And the next day is Friday. that's Mommy's Work at Work Day.

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dinosours on parade from David on Vimeo.

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Swift, Brutal Retaliation by Meghan McCarron Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan Though Smoke Shall Hide the Sun by Brit Mandelo January Recommendations from Mysterious Galaxy Ten Great Things About Grand Tavern 2005 interview with Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon by Lev Grossman Andrew Liptak's Best Books of 2011   I read almost all these books. Yay me! Interview with Laura Hudson

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SF Signal Review - The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells SF Signal Review - The Serpent Sea by Martha Wells China Mieville interview Oakland North map tag - The Nightcap The Book of Books: What Literature Owes the Bible  thanks TLB! Powells' Staff Picks Top 5 2011 The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: Prologue: The Dead City Khan Academy  sadly, not where you go to learn to defeat the

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I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday.

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total count: 115. 7 behind last year's count. Persepolis 2 Jumper Side Jobs The Walking Dead, Vol. 1 Killing Joke: Batman My House in Umbria Never Let Me Go 61 Hours The Double Comfort Safari Club The Red Tree The Tempest Prospero Lost The Last Colony Ship Breaker Cryoburn Speak Winterfair Gifts Persuasion Shades of Milk and Honey Marvel 1602 Liar White Cat Fables:

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Michael Chabon, royalty rates and an e-book backlist Barnes & Noble SciFi & Fantasy Blog: Best SciFi Releases of 2011 William Faulkner's Mint Julep Recipe Fun Factory: Life at Pixar Surviving Holiday Visits “A Dirge for Prester John” Short Story by Catherynne M. Valente The Grim Good Cheer of the Irish Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness

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I watch it every year.

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but it slipped away. why isn't that shit brain-wireless? it's all our loss. something about how I was home alone with a remote + Hulu Plus and Netflix and I think I'm going to watch Psych reruns & fall asleep. Just returned from kareoke where I dominated the Baby Got Back division. I'm sure you are not surprised. Takes a surprising about of diaphram strength.

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K: It's just porn for men. Steve Carrel gets to be the heroic best dad, responds to getting dumped by sleeping with a bunch of younger beautiful women and then gets to get his happy life back, while Ryan G is hot and rich and sleeps with whoever he wants until he meets The Perfect Girl who saves him and he gets to be Happy. What does Emma Stone want? Why was Julianne Moore unhappy? WHO CARES. C:

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Tk'tk'tk by David D. Levine Total Loss: Column 17 Memory and Invention The Paris Review: Interviews Dispatches From The Apocalypse by Junot Diaz I, Reader by Alexander Chee This American Life: Adventure! CMP 2011 Holiday Gift Guide Its a Christmas Raptacular Film Crit Hulk Smash: Hulk And The Cinema Of Edgar Wright - A History Daniel Abraham's Private Letter from Genre to Mainstream

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Horror that Sneaks Up on You (book list) Writers Choose Their Favorite Books of 2011 Q&A: How Technology Is Making Corporate Lawyers More Powerful (part 1) Q&A: How Technology Is Making Corporate Lawyers More Powerful (part 2) Home Movies: things to watch over winter break

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Dystopian Birth Control Neil Gaiman's Audiobook Record Label The Movie Projects that Michael Bay Should Do Next 13 Misconceptions About Today from Future History Classes Stories from Another Country by Kameron Hurley The Bomb Buried In Obamacare Explodes Today-Hallelujah! Top Chef Texas Episode 5 recap   I don't even watch the show anymore. I just read these. Excited Mike Krzyzewski: Duke

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Is it wrong that I am like "hmmm, I get to be alone for a year where someone brings me food and I get to read In Search of Lost Time? SIGN ME UP".

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well it's holiday time. I have lots of stuffed lined up, including investigating B's first ice skating outing. But I've been super busy so little time for blogging or enjoying others' blogs, which is more fun anyways. So I am throwing up the laziest post ever. A copied meme from Von, that I won't even finish. 1) What are you reading at the moment? Trial by Desire by Courtney Milan, Mechanique

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"Hello, Moto" by Nnedi Okorafor The Genre Games TEDxHonolulu Vivian Chau Best - A Simple Gift 10 themes shared by historical fiction and science fiction Dress the Part: The Talented Mr. Ripley

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Katie Roiphe’s Harasser-Centered Sexual Harassment Ethos  Tigerbeatdown is awesome related: http://spottedowls.tumblr.com/ Poet-Bashing Police #OWS related Job Interview Follow-ups Kung-Fu Monkey on TV writing  this is awesome What is Fantasy About?

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in the car B: this is Bon Iver K: yes sweetie, isn't this song pretty? B: it's pretty we listen B: he is saying "cut all of the ropes and let me fall" K: .... K: it's a metaphor

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Night Thoughts of a Baffled Humanist If Tolkien Were Black and follow-up: If Tolkien Were… On Asteroids, Stereoscopic Novels and Time Omelas State University A Brief Rant On The Future Of Interaction Design  

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K: what do you feel like for dinner? C: not sure; we have the left-over pasta K: I had that for lun- B: EXCUSE ME B: CROCODILE LAKE IS FULL OF CROCODILES

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A primer on shutting down awkward conversations with busybodies. The Rebirth of the Feminist Manifesto The Artist Formally Known as Shakespeare Sonata How Plaintiffs Can Win More Takings Cases: A Proposal for California This logic puzzle will make your brain hate you  actually I love this logic puzzle and I wish it had been given to me in the many job interviews I have done recently instead

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Standard Loneliness Package by Charles Yu The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window by Rachel Swirsky Joan Didion on Her New Memoir, 'Blue Nights' “I Was No Longer Afraid to Die. I Was Now Afraid Not to Die.”Jo Walton on Le Guin's 'The Farthest Shore' Verizon to Start Tracking Your Mobile Information, Here’s How to Stop It The Exchange: Mindy Kaling

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Having a toddler learning to talk has made me more aware of how often what I say is not literally what I mean. K once or a few times: shit. time passes B: shit B: shit shit shit K sighs K: no honey we don't say 'shit' B: we do! we do say 'shit' K: no, we don't B: we do say 'shit' we do say 'shit' [long pause] K: well, okay technically, we DO say 'shit' but we aren't supposed to because it's not

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in case you don't zealously follow my twitter feed and click on every link.

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Fish known as wrasses are found to use tools. Chimps do it, birds do it, and now it turns out that fish do it, too - they all use tools of one kind or another to catch whatever they need to eat. Caught on video

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Coaching a Surgeon: What Makes Top Performers Better? 10 Historic Female Scientists You Should Know Klinsmann Q&A Literature and Ethnicity

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I should have known (and you should have too) that my string of posting in the first half of September was bound to crash and burn. Life intrudes and time must be spent on life. For some reason, when I am stressed out, writing a blog post does not make me feel better since I don't want to write about jobs and actively thinking about something else to write about is also stressful. Also I am

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Cowboys kicker ties the game as the clock expires. tv: So that's what you do, you make the play, you move on. You move on to the next one. You score, you live to fight another day. me: "Another day?" it's overtime. It's the same day. C: that's a lot more lucid an analysis than everything else he's been saying.

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Because my Confession post was such a success, I am posting a Lesson post. Lessons learned this week: (1) last Saturday night I had a friend over. In prep I was at Trader Joe's buying wine. I was going to buy two bottles, thinking of the rule "Always buy two bottles of wine", but I thought that C would give me a hard time buying 2 bottles of wine for two people. So I only bought one. When I

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but it is gone with the wind that swept throught the Georgia on my mind. enjoy that metaphor. ------------------------------ I am trying to get about 83 things done today, so I am a little scattered. A guy in my office has two young kids and had never heard of Goodnight, Moon, Pat the Bunny, or Harold and the Purple Crayon. It reminded me how easy it is to assume that my experience is

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At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.- Leo Gursky, The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

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After literally years of hatred, oh I'll never forget how I cheered when he was sacked it that Super Bowl, I am now a fish-caliber devotee of Tom Brady. Prior to the Monday night game: Mirrors and Coke +39.68 vs Nolo Contenderes. The ink is almost dry on this one, but NC does have NE QB Tom Brady and MIA WR Brandon Marshall in play, and will be confronted by a moral dilemma everytime Brady, whom

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Neil Gaiman with Audrey Niffenegger My speech to the IAAC Joan Didion's Fixed Opinions Edited to add more links: Vote for the greatest use of pop music in all of science fiction and fantasy FIrst Listen: Tori Amos, Night of Hunters 

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sometimes ya just gotta ask

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"I made the poopy go away." uh, what in the what?

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I give you the petting zoo [video link deleted]

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B: when I grow up I will be a mermaid! Grandma: if only she would say "I will be an astronaut" Me: given the state of the space program I'd say both are equally likely.

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I had a whole bunch that have floated through my head recently but right now I can only remember one. I'll update as the confessions come to me. Post yours in the comments. It's liberating! I confess that when I was reading The Turn of the Screw, Norton Commentary Edition on BART I kept waiting for someone to ask me what class I was taking so that I could proudly reply that I was reading it on

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Soccer on TV this weekend THE “Don’t Miss” Volume? by Jo Walton The “best” Vorkosigan book in my opionion is Memory, I KNOW. OH MY GOD. I officially declare that Jo Walton and I are secret best friends, where one of the best friends doesn't know of the existence of the other one. Someday I want to meet her and talk about books except I will freak out and babble and scare her away and she might

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Improv skills still lacking so I've taken to everyone's favorite form of creativity, plaigarism. "I'm a ducky, and I'm okay. I swim all night and I quack all day" She's 2, she doesn't know.

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I read The Turn of the Screw recently in a Norton edition that also contained related extras: excerpts from James writings about the story and ghost stories in general, excerpts from reviews and commentary about the story. I had only planned on reading the story itself, but after I finished I was like "What the F was that?" so I had to read the extra material to figure it out. TOS is a "ghost

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quick overall thoughts: I liked it much better than #4 and I will definitely keep reading the series. He did a decent job of pulling it together after #4, which I recognize was a pretty tough task. I don't love a lot of the plot choices he made, but since I don't know where the story is going it's likely that I am simply not seeing why they are necessary. The pacing was good and it didn't drag

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[SPOILERS, OBVIOUSLY] so I am about 100 pages from the end of ADWD. We've definitely wrapped up the Arya storyline for the book. It seems clear that we won't be revisiting the Sansa storyline, and the ending from AFFC will stand until the book 6. I predict that we've also wrapped up the storyline from Dorne, Jaime & Brienne, and the Cersei storyline too. And even though I don't really get the

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First off, where am I coming from? I read books 1-3 pretty much right around the publication of #3. Maybe I read 1 & 2 and then 3 came out shortly there after. Anywhoo, 1-3=AWESOME. amazing, amazing series. Seriously broke my heart. Then I waited for book 4. and waited. and waited. Finally it came out after 5 years, and I was initially excited but then I learned that 4 was only the first 1/2 of

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I woke up with this song in my head this morning. It's so funny when that happens, like my mind is off doing it's own thing while I'm asleep. Like Sophie's World, sort-of. I am also working on a post about The Turn of the Screw, but I am kind of feeling the pressure to get shit done. Or, at least, if I am not going to work, then I kind of want to go drinking. I guess what this means is I need a

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Topless Robot is back for Transformers 3. The Topless Robot commentary on Transformers 2 remain 2 of my favorite things ever read on the internet ever. And I have read a lot of stuff posted on the internet. Practicing Medicine Can Be Grimm Work Trying to make star ratings work SF Chron food reviewer discusses star rating system. Celebrating Bay Area Originals Where Everybody Is Before A

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Grace Paley, Margaret Atwood & Norman Mailer: From the Floor This exchange took place at the closing session of the 48th Congress of International PEN, and appears in PEN America 14: The Good Books. Women in SF more on Women in SFF Q&A on Leverage season premiere. Favorite Bay Area outdoor dining options

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I don't see airplanes or helicopters anymore. They must be hiding. They are hiding in the bushes. They must be sleeping.

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vacation had its ups and downs. Thanks for not trashing the place. Came home to kitty vomit on the bed. So everything was as expected. Also in danger of having my Adult Card revoked due to extreme inability to apply sunscreen. Backs of my legs very sad. B really liked the beach and we saw lots of really cool animals. We stopped on the way home to eat at the Union City Texas Roadhouse Cafe

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as you were

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Review of the inaugural Bites on Broadway event. Hope to check this out soon. Best Bloody Mary's in SF. Probably hands down my favorite cocktail. I can’t remember my first Bloody Mary, and there are only two likely explanations for that. Option one: At 17, I watched The Royal Tenenbaums on loop, wanted to marry Richie Tenenbaum, tried to create his favorite cocktail, failed, and gave up on love

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B's two favorite things put together.

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Excerpt from You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier. Not a book without flaws, but still fascinating and very thought-provoking. Anyone using the internet should read it. Read the whole book. He is very explicit about the problems with breaking up art and ideas into smaller bits and serving them up on the internet, without the whole context. Regardless here is an excerpt. Maybe I need to read it

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"Listen Black Keys listen Black Keys LISTEN BLACK KEYS BLACK KEYS LISTEN BLACK KEYS"

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Dashiell Hammett, copy editor's friend Gormet magazine's 1940s recipes and menus Reforming Pre-Med and Medical schools Mission Minis cupcake baking class with wine bar What it's like to swim through a wall of jellyfish

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I woke up with this song in my head. Love it. I can't wait to find out what song from 10 months ago I am going to totally love next.

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I moved quietly to the French windows and stepped out into the garden to release the Lost Positives that the Lady of Shalott had given me. She had a soft spot for the orphaned prefixless words and thought they had more chance to thrive in Fiction than in Poetry. I let the defatigable scamps out of their box. They were kempt and sheveled but their behavior was peccable, if not mildly gruntled.

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We hadn't seen anyone famous this end of Fantasy since Pamela from Pamela stopped outside with a flat tire. She could have been gone in an hour but insisted on using an epistolary breakdown service, and we had to put her up in the spare room while a complex series of letters went backwards and forwards.

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I keep saying that when I have massive posting gaps. I wll say that I went to sleep before 9pm twice this week. Does that tell you anything? Also, we've listened to Electric Feel about 18 times. And she also likes Time to Pretend. B calls it "kids singing" or more accurately "KIDS SINGING KIDS SINGING WANT LISTEN KIDS SINGING"** Also I read this poem today (forgetting something by Nick Flynn) 

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This is B's favorite song. She calls it "feeeeeeld" or sometimes "lectric feeld" and then "play lectric feeld again AGAAAAAAAIN."  we listen to this song a lot.

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so I keep a list of books I've read on my sidebar. It keeps me honest, gives me motivation, and helps me keep track of what I've read. It is awesome. My original rule was that I didn't post books I was rereading.  After B I decided that I deserved credit for anything I read, even if it was my 22nd read of Memory.  But I always listed only books I had read completely. There are lots of books I

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Fun activities to promote math I am outsourcing my parenting to sign #2 toddler currently downstairs crying over and over "elmo slide elmo slide". Daddy is being rude enough to want to watch the NBA playoffs. THE NERVE OF SOME PEOPLE [for this with other things to know about, that is this folks]: also in Things I Am Not Excited About, there is currently a missing piece cheese somewhere in

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I've been trolling around teh internets! Naturally! as I've said before, I am pretty much at the point of full on worshipping Jo Walton.  What brought me joy today? Better to Have Loved than Lost? Series that go downhill: I think a lot of it depends on the way in which the sequels are bad. If there’s an initial brilliant volume and then the sequels fade off with less and less originality until

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a long week of work and it's only Wednesday. tonight I am catching up on Glee, All on the Line, and sleep. And working my way through The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack as it is about a week overdue at the library. ack. On the internets I am still working through this long article on the Egyptian revolution. It's fascinating and illuminating. Highly recommend.

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Also, I thought that yesterday was Friday, hence my twitter feed. Here's some stuff I'm reading on the internets: The Best Lines from G Paltrow's Cookbook I am also listening to Ted Chiang's award-winning story The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate: http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2008/03/23/aural-delights-no-15-ted-chiang/#comments reviwed here: http://aidanmoher.com/blog/2010/07/reviews/

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I farted and B said "Mommy burp a bum". I don't need to call in MENSA do I? The kid is a genius.

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I have nothing people. nothing!  ok I'll go work on something.

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at the pond: "TURTLES COME ME" It didn't work but given her life experience I understand why she thought it would

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when I first watched this video I accidentally had my speakers on mute, and I like it much better without sound. Has a Marx Bros feel to it. [video link deleted]

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how I'm feeling today

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I guess this is all I have going for me right now Ernest Hemmingway, Yelper. Google Books Settlement: ACS Analysis 10 Perfect Murders in Science Fiction A Glimpse Inside Bradley’s Construction of the National Team "Sucker Punch" goes beyond awful, to become commentary on the death of moviemaking of course Wired gave this movie a positive review. "It shows how strong and awesome women are;

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Jo Walton Rereads Bujold's The Curse of Chalion I am pretty much at the point of full on worshipping Jo Walton. Giambattista Valli Fall 2011 Collection pretty amazing. and pretty, amazing. On Female Characters in games Yes You CAN Tell People via TLB aka Rebecca Johns  Also I have a hilarious peefessional, but it's not internet/blog-approved as it involves someone else. You'll just have to

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except I'm left feeling horribly horribly depressed. starting here: http://motherjones.com/rights-stuff/2011/03/new-york-times-texas-rape then going through the "you might also like" links: Tips for dick kicking More tips for kicking ass Aftershocks: Welcome to Haiti's Reconstruction Hell Mac McClelland is my new idol. Also, dear god. then I went here: Lady Journos! Yay women writers! Fuck rape

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Seeing Things: Rodarte's States of Matter The Demise of Hyphy Andre Dubus III: The Powells.com Interview The Liberation of Lori Berenson Mary Oliver and the Nature-esque: Rambles with America’s most popular poet  Vidocq Society – the murder club What Would You Do If You Had Only Five Minutes To Live? [short film] Daily Show: Crisis in Dairyland - Message for Teachers [video] Honey Badger

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this blog would be a lot cooler and more satsifying if I did more book reviews. I had that plan a while ago, but I think I've just come to realize that the point I'm at right now in my life, I'd rather be reading other books than taking the time to write about the books I just read. Perhaps I need more confidence in my writing. Anyways, this comes up b/c I did want to say, after the ending of my

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Alleged 100 Best First Lines of Novels some are great, but a lot of these are surprisingly terrible choices. Just because it is the first line of a famous novel, doesn't make it a top 100 best line.  I mean, "Elmer Gantry was drunk."  WTF? And I'm sorry, I love Hemmingway, but this is not anything special: 75. In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across

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one of my favorite poems Chicago   by Carl Sandburg Hog Butcher for the World, Tool maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with

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by John Keats For Fanny Brawne The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!     Sweet voice, sweet lips, soft hand, and softer breast, Warm breath, light whisper, tender semitone,     Bright eyes, accomplished shape, and lang'rous waist! Faded the flower and all its budded charms,     Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes, Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,     Faded the voice, warmth,

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goes to the two star review of The King's Speech deeming the ending "very predictable".

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Craig Thompson and Alison Bedchel Interview Each Other ‘Numbers don’t lie’: Addressing the gender gap in literary publishing Neil Gaiman explains why he doesn't sweat "piracy" [video] The Writer's Life: A sunny move for New Yorker Jonathan Lethem Egypt: Hosni Mubarak used last 18 days in power to secure his fortune

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