January 2009
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BREAKING NEWS: HOLY SHIT! SNOW ACCUMULATES IN...
mittenstategirl:
thewayoftheworld:
maconsiglio:
(Jan 29th, 2009 Detroit, Michigan)
Yesterday, snow fell on the ground in Michigan in the middle of winter. There was snow in Oak Park, Southfield, Detroit’s east side, Westland, Taylor, and Clarkston. People bitched as they shoveled, salt trucks hit the road, and assholes crashed their cars for fun. Meanwhile, more important newsworthy things...
TV on the Radio - Family Tree
Trying to decide which movie to see tonight/tomorrow, Milk or The Wrestler.
Anyone out there recommend one of these? Are either of them need-to-see-on-the-big-screen films?
America the Beautiful
150 years ago
Blacks in the South had no rights
100 years ago
Women couldn’t vote
60 years ago
Segregation was legal
Today
A black president is sworn in, elected to the Oval Office after strong challenges from a female senator and a female vice-presidential candidate
“David, here it is, my philosophy is basically this, and this is something that I...”
– Michael Scott on his success - this week’s episode of The Office
Global warming seems to work less often than the cast of The Hills.
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I feel kinda old right now...
It’s been ten years since both Britney Spears and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire premiered.
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Title IX and the BCS
Rick Reilly, ESPN writer, on the latest BCS issues:
Ask him what he’ll do if Obama asks the Department of Education to consider withholding federal funds from these schools that have entered into his secret club [The BCS schools]. You don’t think playing in the title game means millions in general-fund donations for a school? That’s as unfair as anything Title IX fought...
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Horrible Job... part 1
After having to brush snow off my car almost every day this week, sometimes two or three times a day, I realized being the low man on the totem pole at a car dealership would be absolutely terrible. If I can’t stand clearing off one car—usually only enough to drive and let the snow blow off and some of the ice melt—I imagine doing it 300 times a couple times a week would be...
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Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Siik Remix)
More...
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Watch“That’s even better than what I wanted you to say.”
via College Humor
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Boy Don't Try to Front...
For some reason, the freshman girls basketball team I coach decided the song Womanizer was about me and sang the song to me everytime it came on the iPod during our bus ride. Apparently being the unmarried coach means I’m a womanizer.
And yes, being 25 and called a womanizer by half a dozen 14 year old girls is as awkward and embarrassing as it sounds.
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“Dear Fat Girls of America, I know times are tough. I know how it feels to be...”
– Matt Robinson, Ricky Gervais’ co-writer on This Side of the Truth, on why Twilight is his worst movie of 2008. For the whole list, check it out here (may need to scroll down, as not individually linked).
(via I Watch Stuff)
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A New Cigarette Hazard: ‘Third-Hand Smoke’ →
Michigan, can we please ban smoking like so many other states and major cities have?
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anecdotes of my life, a new years resolution
Abbey: Amy.
Amy: Yes, ma'am?
Abbey: CJ and I are gonna get drunk. Come on.
Amy: Yes, ma'am.
Josh: You're going?
Amy: The First Lady just asked me to get boozy with her. You don't think I want to write a book one day?
(The West Wing - "Dead Irish Writers")
* Adding one more new year's resolution to the list--make more decisions that lead to great stories, even if it costs me sleep or sanity.
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Vampire Weekend covering Fleetwood Mac’s...
New Year's Resolutions
* Stop standing at the fork in the road.
I graduated with a teaching certificate but chose to take a year off before heading into teaching. After talking with some of my teacher friends, I put in a little effort towards a teaching position in Chicago then gave up on teaching. Now I’m hanging on at Michigan with no real future here. Either I need to do the education thing (or at least...