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What the electorate is thinking
Incredibly, I'm still not sick to death of the U.S. Presidential campaign. I'm reading a New Republic article that about Mitt Romney's supposed lack of likeability. It mentions all the google hits that happen when one types in "Mitt Romney is a phoney." As a quick experiment, I typed "Mitt Romney is..." into the bing search box and came up with ( Read more... ) -
You Really Have No Idea
Extremely amusing article on Jezebel about fanfiction; specifically -- and I quote -- the wonderfully weird world of filthy Olympic swimming fanfiction.
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What's your battle cry?
from eloriekam
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There's nothing like a meme to get me to write something in my LJ again
Stolen from all kinds of people.
Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday (month and day). Then you write down 3 events, 3 births, 3 deaths, 3 holidays, and tag 3 friends.
Events:
- 1790 - The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after the signing of the Residence Act.
- 1951 - J.D. Salinger novel The Catcher in the Rye ( Read more... )
- 1790 - The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after the signing of the Residence Act.
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Aaron at the Other Place... update
I don't drop by Aaron's discussion group at the Other Place very often anymore, but every once in a while I see something that makes me go "Ahhhhh...."
This is one of those sightings:
Someone Questions...
" When I look at the credits for your shows I sometimes see 'written
by...' and other times I see 'teleplay by...', 'story by...'. What's the
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Writing about, um...sensitive...topics. And who does it well.
So most of you know that I've been taking a writing class this year. It's been great fun and I think that I've even learned alot; what more can you ask for, right? It has, however, had a sadly chilling effect on my LJ posts (which were never prodigious to start with, really.) There's only so much writing I can do, after all. *But* our topic at last ( Read more... ) -
Honey? I'm home!
Courtesy of Jezebel, which is a website that sometimes I am completely left cold by and other times can't stop loving to death, comes this:
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Look how young she is!
and then listen to the words coming out of her mouth. Wow. This is Bill and Hillary Clinton on 60 Minutes, right before the 1992 presidential primaries. Once you get over how Hillary looks like a grown woman in mourning for her lost sorority girl, listen to her talk about character. And then a few years later, Monica Lewinsky had to come along ( Read more... )
