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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Dress/Song Episode 10: Crying in the Rain

Sunday, October 25, 2009

It was raining in Los Angeles!  Um, almost two weeks ago now.  But it was so exciting to have two days of rain in which I could wear raincoats and cardigans and boots that I am still reliving it in my heart.  And to help me relive it in my heart, I have been listening [...]

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Why everything is so annoying, explained

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

I have this new theory that there exists a finite amount of self-esteem in the world, along with a finite amount of self-awareness.  The problem we have now is that all of the world’s self-esteem is in the possession of the kind of people who don’t deserve to have it, while the people who do [...]

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Pretty excellent

Saturday, October 17, 2009

1. Less than a week until Windows 7! I am not normally excited about these kinds of things. But I have been having a MAJOR falling out with Windows Vista over the past little while, and I am at the point where I would murder babies if it would get me a different operating system. [...]

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A dress and a song, episode 9: Back to the Future, Leslie and the Lys

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Ladies and gentlemen, I am so totally having a major Leslie Hall moment right now.  Leslie Hall is kind of magic.  I really appreciate her wholehearted embrace of all things opulently vulgar, and at the same time, sometimes I find her mysterious and incomprehensible, but in a very delightful way.  She’s doing something really interesting [...]

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Dress/Song Episode 8: The Raincoats, Only Loved at Night

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

In honor of OH MY GOD YOU GUYS I GOT TO SEE THE RAINCOATS PLAY LAST NIGHT today’s song is OBVIOUSLY going to be a Raincoats song.  The Raincoats are the kind of band who make me feel less alone in the world.  They are occasionally a little bit earnest in that “oh, the Second [...]

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A dress and a song, episode 7: In California, Lisa Marr and/or Neko Case

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Oh my, but I am behind on my bloggy goings-on this week.  I am blaming last Monday.  It was the worst.  It completely threw off my equlibrium for the rest of the week.  The best to understand what Monday was like would be to imagine you were in a production of the Vagina Monologues, only [...]

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A dress and a song, Episode 6: Vera Lynn, We’ll Meet Again

Friday, October 2, 2009

This just in:  college freshmen do not get Dr. Strangelove. It was going to be beautiful.  The exciting and intellectually stimulating discussion I had planned on the red scare was going so well, and my students seemed honestly excited and engaged, and this was all leading up to what I had pegged as a grand [...]

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