January 2012
26 posts
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My 50 Favorite Songs of 2011
Hey Tumblfriends, I’ve completed my annual 50 favorite songs of the year list. If you want to sample/download songs individually or read short descriptions, you can do so at my blogspot page. If you want to download all 50 all at once, you can go here.
50. Over My Dead Body - Drake
49. Louder Than Ever - Cold War Kids
48. The Honest Truth - Typhoon
47. Under Cover of Darkness - The...
December 2011
19 posts
Away in a Coffin
The other night I recounted how, just two years ago, my sibling thought Christmas was a holiday that commemorated Jesus’s death. My friend diplomatically reasoned that my sibling has a gift for blocking out information that’s not relevant to her. If that’s the case, as far as I can tell, only fashion and Kate Hudson movies are relevant to her. At a Christmas Eve service last...
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Do They Know It’s Christmas? - Allison,...
LA Corrections
Two things about my recent What-To-Do-In-L.A. post: First an error spotted by Andrew: Apparently, I suggested getting authentic Korean food in Korea. Wow that’s a particularly hostile attitude toward Los Angeles! Well, Andrew, maybe I was one of the first to know of Kim Jong Il’s death and was encouraging people to travel there while the getting’s good. Did you even think about...
Insert Joke Here
There is nothing lazier than a comedy writer who uses an [insert *whatever* joke here]. Has anyone ever even laughed at one of those? Like, haha, a joke could go there! I’m giggling just thinking of a potential joke that fits there! I suppose the implication is that the joke flows so obviously that there’s no reason to even write it. But isn’t “[insert joke here]”...
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Nightraider
Even though sleep should be a reprieve from waking life, I tend to bring the stress in my life into my unconscious moments, too. In college, when I was burdened with essays, I’d go to sleep and dream about working on the essays to the point where I’d just decide to get up and work on them since it was consuming my every thought anyway. When I started teaching, it overwhelmed me to the...
“She would offer me her old clothes because they were ‘too big’ for...”
– My friend describing her freshman roommate with a “competitive eating disorder”
The Usual
How do you spell the abbreviation of the word “usual”? As in: “I’ll have the uzj.”
Hey, I said I didn’t know how to spell it.
It can’t be “us”, that’s just too confusing. Is there a Z? a J? a G? It rhymes with rouge and luge, so maybe “uge” is the way to go? Maybe it needs a Y to start it off?
Yuge?
All of my questions...