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Breakfasttime Adventure!

Sunday, January 31, 2010

A couple weeks ago, the Estimable Miss VV and I arose with the sun (or, well, clouds, actually – it was SoCal’s semi-annual Rain Week – not as exciting as Shark Week, but just as wet) and ventured forth for a double-whammy of giant, round breakfast foods with holes in the middle.  This was an [...]

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Unsurprising, really.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

So, uh, the Vignette Pinot Noir Wine Country Soda?

Yeah.  Pretty much just . . . grape soda.
In other exciting news:  last night I said “I have a stomachache.  I’m worried that it’s the flu, but hopefully it’s nothing.”  Today I get to school and am informed that everyone has been told that I was diagnosed [...]

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Dear Cheerwine,

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Oh, but you are tasty.  Apparently, you are a bit of a thing in North Carolina, but I had never heard of you, even though I went to North Carolina for three entire days that one time. But anyhow, no worries, I still like you.  Your particular cherry bouquet went so well with my spaghetti [...]

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Vanilla Cream for what ails you

Monday, November 16, 2009

Friends, Romans, Countryfolk, this is what I am drinking right now:

It is pretty delicious.  It might be a little bit too sweet for my tastes, but what is super exciting is the way that it smells like vanilla.  This has got to be the most fragrant, aromatic pop (yes, POP, you crazy non-Canadians) I have [...]

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Soda-pop-a-go-go

Monday, November 16, 2009

Well, friends, my brain is about to fall out. I have spent all afternoon smashing my head against my exam list, and then all evening doing the reading for seminar this week, and I have some reading on British cultural history to do before bedtime, but I think it’s time for a soda [...]

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CHASED BY DANGER!

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Unrelated:  The next comment on this blog will by my 2000th comment!  THAT IS A LOT.  Maybe I will give Commenter #2000 a prize!  (Probably the prize will be:  I will make you a badge out of construction paper and paste with a crayon portrait of Fox Mulder on it.  It will say “YEAR 2000″ [...]

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Ollalieberry:

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Actually a thing.
(A mutant thing, but still, a thing.)
(I do, however, remain dubious about a berry that needs to be explained using a flowchart.)
Other important news:  I have just managed to work the phrase “Outer Space is for Lovers” into an academic paper; I have therefore reached the pinnacle of my academic career and they [...]

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Sandwiches

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Are you on twitter? If so, you might be interested to know that Tanya and I have a new project going (as of about 1:00 am last night when I thought of it) called SANDWICHBLOG, wherein we are using twitter to tell you what kinds of sandwiches we eat. We have started this [...]

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And also I fell and skinned my knee. Luckily, my heart is made of fourtanium

Sunday, February 15, 2009

1.  Dear my students:  the question about “which movement is this song associated with” was referring to a social movement.  Therefore the answer is not “the movement of swaying your hips.”
2.  Dear American Cinematheque:  Thank you for having a Valentine’s day double bill of Baz Luhrmann films about how if you fall in love, things [...]

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Please can I spend the rest of the quarter sitting around, drinking tea, and listening to the Marvelettes?

Sunday, November 23, 2008

I feel like I have nothing good to say, but since it’s been a long time since I posted because everything has been so busy, I feel like I should say things anyhow.
Hey, guess what!  I finally got to see Cute With Chris Live after all these years of trying to get tickets.  And it [...]

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