What you ought to be reading:
The ABCs of the LOLcats
The Scrap Scarf Tutorial – Cute scarf pattern for fabric scraps.
Rick Astley Gets Rick Rolled
The Lives They Lived – Steven Gilliard Jr. – New York Times
Creek Running North — Arguments fall apart – “No one reasonably expects your typical American to know the dates of conquest [...]
We had plans to run around town doing all sorts of errands today, but Ethan and I both appear to be coming down with some kind of sinus thing. After waking up and playing for a few hours, he curled up on the couch and fell asleep. I feel like doing the same.
What you ought to be reading:
What Are You, Stupid? – Things not to do in college: Jump, facial tattoos, Ayn Rand.
A Fine Romance – “But if he does have a girlfriend she works hard. Usually, she’s the same age as he is but seems older, as if the disparity between boys and girls in [...]
Recommended links for December 27th:
One Hour Tote Bag – Sew a bag in one hour.
Custom Paper Toys – Build your own toys out of paper.
Creek Running North — Trinity – A thousand feet of gray. A thousand feet of pallid gray and mist. We watch the sky and fret. A minor squall or three-day-blow? No [...]
Thanks to the unexpected wisdom tooth debacle and the unexpected week off I had to take after getting dry sockets, I had exactly one eight-hour day left to take off around the holidays. I couldn’t take yesterday off since those of us scheduled were needed to cover those who had holiday time. I [...]
Early this week I committed a serious faux pas.
It’s funny, really, that through my youth, and then my college years, all the time I was immersed in progressive literature, identity politics and activism, I would find myself in the most diverse environment I’ve enjoyed yet at an entry-level job in whitebread middle America. [...]
I don’t know what made me think of this cartoon, but I love it.
Because I can.
Obviously the big news of the day is the announcement by Jamie Lynn Spears, little sister of Britney, that she is pregnant. (See also: The Cleaver and Dadsmacker) The sixteen-year-old star of Nickelodeon’s “Zoey 101,” in which my son is thankfully completely disinterested, meaning that I’ve never seen it, made the announcement today, [...]
I’m not sure how much 1200 grains of rice actually is once it’s heaped all together in a bowl, but this little vocabulary game purports to donate 20 grains of rice for every correct vocabulary word. Bonus: it doesn’t time you, so if you don’t know the word you can still look it [...]
Love your pets. And feel free to dial under the influence.
Apparently the new discerning woman is increasingly worried about the shape of her ear lobes. After years of wearing heavy ear rings, the piercing in the earlobe stretches, leading to an allegedly unsightly sag. Enter a team of dermatologists to repair the terrible damage, a team that claims any other facial work that [...]
An internet celebrity news source says that Queen Latifah has proposed to her long-term girlfriend and they plan to have a public wedding sometime in the recent future.
How cool is that?
Disney decided to get in on the couture noose racket with The Noose Necklace:
But despite all the race-related, noose-related threats on North American soil in recent months, it’s related to Pirates of the Caribbean so it’s no big deal. Also be on the lookout for the sterling silver SS belt buckle from The Sound [...]
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