Excuse the Bragging Mom: Ethan competed in a piano and theory contest last weekend and won three ribbons and a trophy. This kid earned it — he practiced every day on his own, memorized his music on his own, studied his theory on his own — and did I mention that he kicked […]
Archive for April, 2007
Friday Random Ten - The “One More List And Then I’m Done” Edition
Published April 27th, 2007 in E and Music. 14 CommentsI sent the Christmas thank-yous. In April.
One-Note Hirshman Will Be Around So Long As Shitting On Women Is So Normal We Don’t Notice
Published April 26th, 2007 in Assholes, Feminism and Work. 0 CommentsLinda Hirshman has learned a lesson or two since her last few major articles have come out — women get irritated when you say they live “lesser lives” when not slogging away for The Man — and she’s tempered her message with a line or two acknowledging the negative messages women get about parenting. […]
Lost (For a Good Reason) Boys
Published April 24th, 2007 in Back In the Day, Celebrity and Entertainment. 10 CommentsIn truth, I’m just bitter that a certain License to Drive broke my DVD player last year after it was sent to me by a certain libertarian blogger that shall not be named, and I’m (*cough*) certain The Coreys were behind this.
Regardless, they’re back:
Corey Feldman and Corey Haim are reuniting in the name […]
Three people I know are graduating this month. All three are non-traditional students, and all three are very high achievers I’m proud to know.
1. My babymama friend and cohort in crime is graduating with a full RN nursing degree after four years of slogging it out as a single mother/waitress/bartender/student living on HUD […]
I haven’t been writing because I’ve been doing other very important things, like
1. turning myself fuchsia in Ye Olde Sunlight, with whom I haven’t been acquainted since I began sitting under flourescent lights for upwards of eight hours a day. 1a. attempting to explain to my African-American coworkers who are new-ish […]
I’ve never seen this interpretation before, but the website explains it here, and Bil Browning has more on the Indianapolis area church’s mission.
via Taking Down Words and the Indy Star
Delicious must-read letter found by A White Bear: “I deffinately have not cheated on you (note: since 2 yrs ago) or have flirted with any of your friends or girls you know in general.“
Grand Prix weekend, the weekend students use to blow off steam before finals week by throwing huge parties, dressing up in full costume and walking to the bar at sunrise, is nearly over. Abandoned cups of beer line the sidewalk, random litter blows down the street. An inflatable swimming pool full of lawnchairs […]
I meant to plant a tree today, but a kindly neighbor dropped by. I let Chef and my mother do it instead. I did plant some lavender.
UPDATE: SUNBURN. Working on a serious farmer’s tan.
The other song E is obsessed with, to my simultaneous joy and chagrin:
Next, assemble your mp3 player of choice. Load ‘em up, fire ‘em out, cringe — then list the first ten that play.
1) Beth Gibbons & Rustin’ Man - Funny Time of Year
2) Motley Crue - Without You
3) Jenny Lewis […]
The one thing I find hopelessly cruel — other than the obvious things that everyone else has noted — is that the type of abortion banned was the one that allowed a family to say goodbye to and bury a very wanted child, often named, who was assigned a birth certificate. It was one […]
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