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In my head, I planned a lengthy post in response to this article. It would have been great; full of factual disputes, quotations, links, etc. I called my editor (me) and reserved 6+ paragraphs for the piece.
Then I learned that christwire.org is a satirical website.
Enter: [...]
I had just returned from the library from an eight hour studying marathon (finals are great, aren’t they) when I turned on the television and heard that President Obama would make an impromptu statement regarding national security. I then did what any generation-googler would do, and turned to the interwebs. On the Huffington Post, someone [...]
I arrived breathlessly at the edge of a clearing, hesitant to enter the golden sunlight. For some reason the shade offered by the canopy of trees stretching their long arms was more agreeable to me. My feet had grown accustomed to having the cool earth beneath them, soft and forgiving. One thing I had learned [...]
In Defense of Offensive Art is an interesting article from The Awl. It caught my eye because the tag line mentioned a rap group that I find pretty interesting, Odd Future. The article aims to explore the reasons for art that is obscene and why people listen to songs [...]
I was reading The Guardian’s Ten rules for writing fiction the other day and came across Roddy Doyle’s first rule: 1 Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.
I laughed derisively. What kind of creep [...]
Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to see world renown anthropologist and primatologist (chimp-ologist?) Jane Goodall deliver a speech. It was part of this year’s Distinguished Speaker Series at Penn State University. I didn’t know much about her going into it, but after a quick browsing of [...]
I like many a thing. At the moment I especially like:
This iced coffee sitting next to me The fact that I am done all my work for the next few days The prospect of traveling Costa Rica this summer for 12 days Jaco Pastorious and Weather Report Is There No Place on [...]
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