July 2011
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ListenSLAM Tuesday Week 8 - “Taxi” I decided to try a...
Jul 1st
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June 2011
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Top 1 songs I'd be totally cool with never hearing...
1. Sweet Home Alabama.
Jun 30th
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Jun 30th
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Jun 29th
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Jun 27th
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#439: A House Divided →
This American Life Stories about people who find themselves either unexpectedly being singled out or doing the singling out. Including one story about nine public officials whose constituents are trying to throw them out of office, and another story about a man’s very physical battle with himself.
Jun 27th
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Jun 26th
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Jun 26th
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Jun 25th
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Jun 24th
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Top 3 things I literally don't care about (as long...
Who you are. Where you’re from. What you did.
Jun 23rd
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Jun 23rd
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Jun 23rd
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Jun 22nd
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Jun 21st
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Top 5 Albums of Forever and Always →
alliemyers: Part of Summer of Bravery for me is being decisive, so lately I’ve been trying to distill the amorphous blob of “things I like” into lists and favorites. I figured my Top 5 Albums of All-Time was a good place to start, but in true indecisive fashion, I thought of the first two, couldn’t decide how to order them, debated dividing the lists by genre, then gave up. This morning, I...
Jun 20th
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Books Just Purchased:
Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions - Mark Horowitz Three Uses of the Knife: The Nature and Purpose of Drama - David Mamet Colored Lights - John Kander The Complete Works of Harold Pinter Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories - Christopher Booker Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Things One Sees - Lawrence Wescheler ...
Jun 20th
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Jun 20th
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“…I was going to suggest to you that you serve your eggs with hollandaise...”
– Mitt Romney, speaking about eggs Benedict at a campaign stop in New Hampshire.
Jun 19th
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Jun 18th
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Top 2 Reasons Why I Just Want to Be With You
Now that you’re gone. I can’t go on.
Jun 18th
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Jun 18th
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“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting...”
– James Joyce, Ulysses (via proustitute) Happy Bloomsday, all! One day I will properly read Ulysses and not just rely on Dubliners (which you should read, if you haven’t) as my sole Joyce experience….
Jun 17th
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Jun 16th
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Jun 16th
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Jun 15th
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Bike-riding in DC:
Not un-dangerous.
Jun 14th
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Jun 12th
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Done and/or Did:
Nails Hurr Everything
Jun 11th
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Jun 11th
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Jun 8th
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Read outside. Learn guitar. Check fridge. Check...
Rinse and repeat.
Jun 7th
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Jun 7th
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#437: Old Boys Network →
This American Life Stories about standing up to the man—or, really, the men. Nurses at a small Texas hospital report a well-connected doctor for dangerous medical practices, and find themselves under arrest. Plus…how political operators in Chicago get to be judges.
Jun 6th
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Jun 6th
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Jun 5th
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Jun 4th
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Jun 4th
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Jun 2nd
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100 gorgeous opening lines →
There’s so much to read….
Jun 1st
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