Month: October 2009
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Last fall, I got into the habit of getting off the bus a few stops early and walking a couple of miles home at the end of the day. I would sling my messenger bag over my shoulder, turn up the volume on Matt Nathanson’s Some Mad Hope on my mp3 player (well over a…
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Yesterday afternoon, a friend and I were lamenting the announced closing of a prominent think tank. She remarked that the general public probably wouldn’t even notice its disappearance from the intellectual landscape. True. Social sciences research for its own sake ain’t exactly the stuff of sexy headlines and well, duh, it’s a recession y’all. Organizations…
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Hate To Break It To You is a recurring feature wherein we dispense succinct home truths that everyone could benefit from facing up to, unpleasant as they may be. You can tell a lot about a person by how they act at the end. I’m not talking about death (although, I’m sure that’s illuminating as…
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In true Gen Y fashion, I stumble across most of my new musical finds on the internet and/or through word of mouth. The no tv thing lessens the possibility of being exposed to the latest top 40 music news and I don't have cause to listen to the radio unless I happen to be in…
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It will probably comes as no great shock that I have a mental list of character traits and behaviors that set my (usually very low) blood pressure skyrocketing*. Don’t we all? Okay, so maybe not everyone archives theirs in bullet list form, but still. I was reminded of one of the big-ticket annoyances recently while…
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If you’re not familiar with Barbara Ehrenreich (hasn’t everyone heard of Nickel and Dimed?), you should be. I heart her enormously. Her latest book, Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, was released this week and she recently did an interview about the cult of feel-good positivity with Elle magazine. In…
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Okay, y’all, so I’ve realized that attempting to crank out six in-depth pieces a week between Warp and Weft and GenMeh, plus do research for future pieces, hold down a full-time job (while hunting for another one to stave off impending unemployment) and make a gallant effort at pretending to have a buzzing social life…
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Today’s subject has been on my radar for a while, but I was reminded of it the other day while burdening JW with my coffee-fueled theories about the myopia of those who believe that social media technologies such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. are completely commonplace, when, in fact, the average 22 year-old on the…
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My mother and I were recently discussing religion (can’t remember if this was before or after I threatened to become a Quaker). When she mentioned having been brought up to respect and revere members of the priesthood, I realized that I simply could not relate. Not even a little bit. Photo by bobster855 And it’s…
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Something to tide you over until Monday’s musings, which will most probably be about the death of pro forma respect for authority figures among our generation, FYI. Also, if you cannot tell that the above-linked list is meant in jest, I would request you to stop reading this site and never return again. KTHXBAI. Edited…
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