May 2010
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May 1st
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April 2010
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Citation and Punctuation Meltdown
I’ve been having a citation and punctuation identity crisis after my professor said that parenthetical citations need to go at the end of the sentence.  Last night, as I edited my paper on Gnosticism, I panicked when it came to citation.  My idea of citation (drilled into my mind since ninth grade) crumbled before my eyes. Naturally, I immediately began doubting all my punctuational and...
Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 16th
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My Love for Adam Lambert Knows No Bounds
It was a rough night on American Idol today.  Andrew Garcia and Katie Stevens got eliminated and Ryan was acting quite awkward.   Not to mention that American Idol is no longer as family-friendly as it used to be (funnily enough, it’s mostly what Ellen says that makes me cringe– tequila, bananas, and horny songs– oh my!)– but obviously that’s not affecting the voting turnout.  In the...
Apr 15th
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Internet Virus Targets Facebook →
OH NO!!!!
Apr 14th
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at & t: I'm putting you on notice.
You just dropped my call seven times in one conversation.  I live next to a cell tower, so that’s just rude.  The second I find someone better than you, I’m dropping you.  Jerk.
Apr 14th
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American Idol Live Blogging
CNN has an American Idol live blog. But that doesn’t matter; two can play this game.  So here it goes: a running commentary of tonight!  Hold on to your socks! Tonight is Elvis night.  Adam Lambert is the mentor.  It seems like such a long time since Adam Lambert was on the show… but it was just last year!  With that in mind, I thought (although I love him to death) he was an strange mentor...
Apr 14th
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Vatican forgives Beatles for Lennon’s Jesus remark... →
jaimeleigh: You can always count on the Vatican to deal with the important issues of the day.
Apr 13th
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Apr 13th
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WatchWatch
Sarah Palin (played by Tina Fey) discusses her next career move on SNL.  I could listen to Tina Fey imitating Sarah Palin all day long.
Apr 12th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 9th
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Why I Write (it's a long story.)
People ask me why I write.  The wind leaves my lungs and I feel like I can’t gather the words to explain.  I could begin, “When I was six…”  But everyone cringes when sentences start like that.  Everyone has cutesy stories about what they wrote in first grade.  It means they were a cute kid (once). Catullus wrote a famous epigram which precisely describes my relationship with...
Apr 9th
Apr 8th
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Doth mine ears perceive a choir of angels? →
JK Rowling announced that she is releasing another book soon.
Apr 7th
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On Lyrical Interpretation
Okay. So I was watching American Idol last night, exhausted.  All the performances were great!  (Whenever AI covers Beatles’ songs, I brace myself; when people mess up Lennon-McCartney songs, more people take offense than when people mess up the national anthem.)  But (maybe from pure exhaustion) the thing that bothered me the most about last night were the vapid explanations about...
Apr 7th
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“As a baby inside a womb, you know exactly who you are, and you repeat over and...”
– Robert McDowell, at the Living Writers series at UC Santa Cruz.
Apr 7th
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I Feel the Earth Move
Actually, I didn’t– but I heard about it immediately.  I was online when it happened, and within seconds, people everywhere in the region struck by the earthquake were changing their statuses.  Articles on news sites about the damage occurring appeared.  And ironically, within minutes, jokes about people changing their status to say “EARTHQUAKE!!” began to surface too.  And now,...
Apr 5th
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Apr 4th
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The Clash of the Titans
The Clash of the Titans is such a hot mess.  I laughed and cried.  Giant carnivorous scorpions? Yes, please.  That will spice up any story.  I’m going to lay this out piece by piece. Kudos on the opening scene with the nebulae shaped like gods!  In the Metamorphoses, Ovid says that the gods walk along the Via Lactea (the Milky Way), which gives a person a sense of their assumed scale...
Apr 3rd
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Apr 2nd
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“Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write...”
– Mark Twain
Apr 2nd
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So It Explodes
Restlessness governs the Muses; it is their divine directive, and they bend the land to their law, scratching stories into tree trunks, scraping poems into moss, and weaving landscapes that would rival Arachne’s famous canvases with Spanish moss. The Muses live in an ancient forest which has evaded human sight for millennia, but invades their psyche.  Towering trees make an uneven boundary...
Apr 2nd