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Archive for December 2008

Mary Poppins

In Shorts on 2 December 2008 tagged Conversations, The Man with 4 comments

Me: Ugh! I hate Julie Andrews. She’s so stick-up-her-ass proper and British.
Him: I know! That’s what make her so hot and naughty when she’s wearing lingerie.
Me: What has she worn lingerie in?
Him: (tapping temple) In here.

What Girls Want

In Internerd on 3 December 2008 tagged Girly, Reading with no comments

Atlantic Monthly columnist Caitlin Flanagan gives glowing reviews to the Twilight series (ugh), but it’s what she has to say about teenage girl readers that most resonated with me.
I can remember lying on my bed in a Dublin row house at 15, so immersed in Margaret Mitchell that I faked three days of illness to [...]

Pop tarts

In Shorts on 8 December 2008 tagged Conversations, Friends with 1 comment

Another blast from the past via Facebook today. This time an old friend I haven’t seen since before I could drive. He rained this storm of wisdom on me via email:
I live in the fun. Plus Im tired of leaving the fun, so I dont. I lived at the beach in SoCal for 5 years [...]

Take my pen knife, my good man!

In Internerd, Photo Album on 8 December 2008 tagged Texas with 1 comment

Did you know that in the 1950s Houston used to have a Monorail? (Via Houstonist)

Enjoy it while it lasts

In Shorts on 10 December 2008 tagged Texas with 3 comments

It is currently snowing in Houston. To fully appreciate this miracle you need to know that it was 78 degrees yesterday.
Since moving to Houston I’ve found it harder to get into the holiday spirit. I’m not so enthralled with the consumerism or the religiousness, or even the family aspect of the holidays. I look forward [...]

Depression

In Shorts on 10 December 2008 tagged Listening with no comments

This This American Life episode (first segment) featuring Studs Terkel interviewing people who lived through the Depression is fascinating and terrifying for three reasons:

What if this happens again?
Some people are still really that bigoted (replace “negro” with “faggot”).
Soon, the generation of people who lived through the Depression will be dead.

Unknown Beauties

In Internerd on 16 December 2008 tagged Girly, Reading with no comments

Lance points me to this Harvard Gazette article about the nameless girls who posed for color test shots before the advent of digital touch-ups.
This ties in nicely with my new television obsession (via Netflix), Mad Men.

Arnold Spirit

In Shorts on 17 December 2008 tagged Conversations, Reading with no comments

I used to think the world was broken down by tribes. By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn’t true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not.

— From Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman [...]

Cars sliding down icy hill

In Video on 17 December 2008 tagged Ha! with 1 comment

The music makes me giddy.

Solstice

In Blog on 21 December 2008 tagged Girly, Oklahoma with no comments

I am barefoot, in the first neighborhood I remember from my childhood. I am playing basketball with the neighborhood boys in someone else’s driveway. There is no net, and it is the latest I have ever been allowed to stay outside at night. The sun is still out, it’s dusk, yet it feels like it [...]

A fable for Christmas

In Internerd on 25 December 2008 tagged Reading with no comments

Captured on South Beach, Satan later escaped. His demons and the horrible Bloody Mary are now killing people. God has fled. Avenging angels hide out in the Everglades. And other tales from children in Dade’s homeless shelters.