December 2010
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the pandas are moshing: How to Write About Africa →
Always use the word ‘Africa’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘Safari’ in your title. Subtitles may include the words ‘Zanzibar,’ ‘Masai,’ ‘Zulu,’ ‘Zambezi’, ‘Congo’, ‘Nile’, ‘Big’, ‘Sky’, ‘Shadow’, ‘Drum’, ‘Sun’ or ‘Bygone’. Also useful are words such as ‘Guerrillas’, ‘Timeless’, ‘Primordial’ and ‘Tribal’. Note…
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Help me get through this morning →
We have a half day at work, and NO ONE is here. Boredom ensues. So, please, leave me funny stories, ponderings on life, questions about the world, questions about me…anything to keep me occupied for another three hours!
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Back in NY!
Driving from Boston wasn’t so bad, but getting back around NY in a rental car was awful. We live on the east coast! We’re used to snow! Why do I feel like the apocalypse is coming?
(It took me an hour to get into Manhattan this morning, normally a 15-minute commute from Astoria…)
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Just rewatched Inception for the first time since...
I effing love that movie.
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On that December day last year, my friend and I headed out into Midtown. New...
– Jennifer Finney Boylan, author most recently of Falcon Quinn and the Black Mirror, in a New York Times Op-Ed piece headlined, “The Library at Pooh Corner”
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Stranded in Boston
My bus back to New York tomorrow has been cancelled due to the severe snowstorm that is now in progress (they’re predicting 12-18 inches of snow!). I don’t mind missing work, though I do mind the fact that I have to - last year I missed the week between Christmas and New Year’s because I was sick, so even though I was supposed to be working, I missed the days, and it looks like...