February 2012
Dear Catholic Higher Ups,
Let’s step out of the Dark Ages, eh?
Contraception allows a woman control over her reproductive life and gives her freedom to pursue an education and a career before having (if ever having) a family.
Controlling that basic bodily function is absolutely necessary if women are ever to achieve parity in society.
It’s time, Catholic Higher Ups (MEN), to stop treating women as lesser...
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A poem
Dear Liver, Dear Liver,
I think your color is brown
Dear Liver, Dear Liver,
With whiskey I you drown
Dear Liver, Dear Liver,
I promise to be good
Dear Liver, Dear Liver,
If you promise not too brood
What whiskey movie night is teaching me is I'm not...
I think my liver hates me.
Someone bring me french fries.
I will pay you in cat fur.
Movie night with friends means whiskey and...
The one to alleviate the pain of experiencing the other.
I'm so happy. I got my new media person to sign...
I want to marry her brain she’s so smart.
Seriously, two of the best classes I’ve ever taken — undergraduate or graduate — were with this woman.
I’m so freaking excited.
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Disenchanted fan.
Let me be clear here, I’m a lifelong Cleveland Browns fan. I know what losing is all about. And what it’s like to hold out hope year after year.
When I moved to Alabama I became a Colts fan because, when the Titans weren’t on, it was the Colts. And, as I couldn’t root for the Titans as they’d formerly been the Oilers and because I grew up hearing about Johnny U from...
idsploder replied to your post: Okay, I want to know, who would play me in a movie?
Maria Bello.
I also love her and am so sad Prime Suspect got cancelled. The writing wasn’t great, but she was amazing in it. (Basically I want to drink a lot of scotch and shoot a gun and punch bad guys.)
Dangling participles.
Doesn’t that sound dirty?
notwhatihadinmind replied to your post: Okay, I want to know, who would play me in a movie?
Marion Cotillard.
Wow, she’s amazing. Le Vie En Rose is one of my favorite movies.
Let me tell you how much I love grading grammar...
Not at all.
I hate grammar.
I don’t want to teach it. Subjects, objects, bah-jects.
Oooh, these are good.
thatchris replied to your post: Okay, I want to know, who would play me in a movie?
Judy Greer
I had to look her up and then when I saw her face I was like, “Oh, her, I really like her.”
thesemicullen replied to your post: You guys are all over the place.
Laura Dern. No freaking question.
Cullen, this was inspired.
You guys are all over the place.
(I don’t normally do this, so sorry.)
megatim81 replied to your post: Okay, I want to know, who would play me in a movie?
Tina fey
Well, there are a lot of similarities between us. The glasses, the hair, the food and just generally being a disaster.
emilytraeger replied to your post: Okay, I want to know, who would play me in a movie?
i wanna say juliette lewis and i’m not sure why
...
vrai-lean-uh replied to your post: So, is wanting to watch Gotterdammerung crazy?
I’ve been thinking about it myself. I heard the way they staged the ending was HORRIBLE, though.
Oh, no, six hours is a long time to sit still for an opera to only have the ending botched!
Okay, I want to know, who would play me in a...
It had better be someone badass.
For dinner tonight in Chez rosieloveswords:...
Because sometimes you just need comfort food.
(And whiskey; I’m gonna have some whiskey.)
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So, is wanting to watch Gotterdammerung crazy?
It’s live in HD this weekend at our local theater Saturday.
It’s also six hours.
That’s a long time to spend with Wagner on a Saturday afternoon. But I think I just might do it.
I had a freelancing gig just fall into my lap.
It pays to do your job well, kiddos. People will recommend you for stuff and you will make the monies.
Also, I think I’m changing my URL soon. I’m going to create a new Tumblr account for the research I’m thinking of doing but even having my nickname in the URL of this one makes me worried they’ll somehow wind up linked. I would rather that not happen.
When/if I do change...
darksidelawyer replied to your post: Interesting discussion on strategic reading. Do you find the death of newspapers is actually causing your journo students—or people in general—to read less news? Newspapers were formatted with narrow columns so that the reader could scan the first few paragraphs quickly (supposedly, JFK read six papers a day this way). It seems to me that full-screen text...
darksidelawyer asked: Interesting discussion on strategic reading. Do you find the death of newspapers is actually causing your journo students--or people in general--to read less news? Newspapers were formatted with narrow columns so that the reader could scan the first few paragraphs quickly (supposedly, JFK read six papers a day this way). It seems to me that full-screen text discourages this ADD millennial set from...
anindependentguinevere replied to your post: Do you tell them which sources to read? I assume none of it’s anything obscure, but when I had a course that did that (international relations) without telling us sources, and basically keeping up would have required 2+ hours a day of news reading on top of regular work (and that course, as an undergrad, had 250p+ of reading a week). I just didn’t have...
lemdi asked: Do you tell them which sources to read? I assume none of it's anything obscure, but when I had a course that did that (international relations) without telling us sources, and basically keeping up would have required 2+ hours a day of news reading on top of regular work (and that course, as an undergrad, had 250p+ of reading a week). I just didn't have the time. I wasn't in...
Twitter Duty
We have a Twitter account, normally I have someone who handles this. Two days a week, though, I do.
I tweet a news story that might me of interest to our audience — produced by other outlets — once an hour between 10 am and 6 pm.
Twitter duty.
Guess who forgot she's on Twitter duty for work?
Moi.
Luckily, it’s not hard to get caught up.
anarchyandscotch replied to your post: My students are tanking on the news quizzes.
My $0.02: part of writing the news is reading the news. They don’t become better journalists unless they’re keeping up with current events and reading the work of other journalists. If they’re not doing that, their grades SHOULD suffer for it.
Yes, and I agree with you largely. That’s the whole reason I...
“(Reuters) - European air safety officials are preparing to extend checks for...”
– Airbus A380 wing checks extended: sources — Reuters
When I first visited Hamburg the group I was with spent a morning at the Airbus factory there.
After hearing the PR story about what a great company Airbus is and what interesting and innovate things they were doing, we were given a tour...
My students are tanking on the news quizzes.
There are ten over the course of the semester and they count for 10% of their grades.
I changed things up and the second one was actually a quiz on journalistic terms and concepts. I had questions about lead and nut graphs (I hate that term) attribution. They did pretty well on that one.
I’m considering scrapping the last five quizzes altogether. I’d like their grade to be a...
Some mornings call for Bon Jovi.
I don’t care if I’ll Be There For You is awful, Gollum needs it right now.
Needs it.
See also: Livin’ on a Prayer.
Few things make me spit out my coffee
trinilikesalt:
The sudden knowledge that that POS Rick Santorum won THREE states last night is apparently one of those things.
Santorum? SANTORUM? REALLY?
It’s like bizarro world.
I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no drama.
But I do know ovulation sucks, my ovary hurts and I want to scream as I stand on a pyramid of skulls. Kali-ma, bitches.
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The thing about growing up in poverty is that it...
The fear. The worry. The feeling that you’re being slowly suffocated by a system that does not give a damn about you or your family or your hopes and dreams.
The thing about growing up in poverty is that you never grow out of it. No matter how comfortable or successful you become there’s always the fear; always the doubt.
Sometimes you wake up in a cold sweat because you’re...
jusky: I don’t like pizza because it reminds me of... →
jusky:
I don’t like pizza because it reminds me of cake, and cake is like bread that’s actiing like a whore. I don’t like high fives because they remind me of fighting someone but not admitting it. I don’t like laughter because it makes a spasm in my chest that reminds me I’m not in control all the…
I love this.
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Truths
I am having a really rough time right now. Some days I want to talk about it and other days I just want to hide under the covers and pretend nothing - not even I - exist.
I really love grouchy days. I’m typically so nice and considerate and empathetic and grouchy days just let me stew and feel mean.
Of course tomorrow I’ll feel bad about my grouchy day.
I am so ready to be done...
“Only held by gravity, faded with uncertainty, no longer young and not that...”
– Deb Talan — How Will He Find Me
emilytraeger replied to your photo: I hate my new office setup.
thank god for headphones?
Yes. Very much, yes.
Remembering Roger Boisjoly: He Tried To Stop... →
Bulky, bald and tall, Boisjoly was an imposing figure, especially when armed with data. He found disturbing the data he reviewed about the booster rockets that would lift Challenger into space. Six months before the Challenger explosion, he predicted “a catastrophe of the highest order” involving “loss of human life” in a memo to managers at Thiokol.
The problem,...
Sleeping poorly is just awesome.
Coffee is needed.
