Another day, another review. And I may, or may not, be watching RuPaul's Drag Race on Netflix. And I may, or may not, be counting down the hours until tomorrow's USWNT Olympic opener against France.

It's time.

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This week (or "this installment", more like), I'm going to recommend a song by singer/songwriter Brandi Carlile. I've become recently obsessed. I mean, I've really enjoyed it over the past few weeks but in the last couple days I've been listening to it a hell of a lot. It's the song Hard Way Home off of her new album Bear Creek. It's wonderfully ( Read more... )

Summer vacation! You know what that means! Xena! Seriously, though. I only have about seven episodes left (six if you don't count this one) before I'm finished! Wow! And even though I know I'm the only one who reads these (indeed, I think I'm just about the only one to read any of my entries, as it happens), I'm a completist. I hate to leave ( Read more... )

It's about that time of the year, friends! It's been nearly a year since rachg82 inspired me to be very gay and produce a list of my Hot 25 Women. This year I'm a little less ambitious and am just going with a top 10. The top 10 was kind of hard to assemble. Once I got to about the top seven, I had a hard time narrowing down. I didn't want to leave anyone ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here and listening to a Slate podcast and I was like, "How can I multitask?" and I thought to myself, "Hm. Why don't I write another Xena review?" I mean, I watched the episode immediately following my last review so I had the notes stored and, frankly, I'm sick of not finishing this project! So I'm going to write this review and listen ( Read more... )

I'm coming at you guys with two book reviews. I have been on fire this past week with the reading. And you know what I'm about to do? Go down to the park a few blocks down, chill out with some wine in my water bottle, and read some Rachel Maddow.

Three day weekends are so very decadent.

But seriously . . . Read Let The Great World Spin. So incredibly ( Read more... )

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1) Friday Night Lights needs to stop with the student/adult sexual tension. Like . . . seriously. Maybe I'm hypersensitive because I work around teenagers all day but . . . It's just super gross.

2) But I do love FNL's opening titles. It makes me nostalgic for being a cheerleader in high school in a small Texan town. And I never was a cheerleader in ( Read more... )

Well, hell. After a terminally long hiatus from writing these reviews, I'm back in the game. For now. I figured that spring break was the perfect opportunity to get my ass in gear and write my first Xena review since back in October or November. Yeah, it's been a while, folks. And I stopped after the first part of a trilogy. What the hell, man?

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Our class novel is currently The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, a book told from the point of view of a fifteen year old boy with Asperger's. A large part of the unit, aside from going over literary characteristics and features, is centered around the idea of social norms. In fact, by the end of the unit, the students are going to ( Read more... )