January 2012
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Jan 1st
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December 2011
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Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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“If I were a reasonable man, a smart man, I would have retreated to my hotel long...”
– Anthony Bourdain, The Layover (Montreal)
Dec 30th
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“We crawled up to bed, tumbled down half dressed, and stayed there ten hours....”
– George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
Dec 30th
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“Everything was different now. Everything. I’d not only survived -...”
– Anthony Bourdain on eating his first oyster as a child - from his memoir Kitchen Confidential.
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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The older I get, the harder the hangovers hit.
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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I credit the strength of my immune system to having a sewer plant operator for a father and a dairy farmer for a grandfather. Being constantly exposed to shit as a child has crafted an immune system almost superhuman in battling viruses and bacterial infections - of this I am convinced. Yet, when I do get sick, it always seems to happen when I have time to relax or am on a break from work (or, in...
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 22nd
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Anonymous asked: Your idiotic cheap shot non-researched smear campaign against Robert Sungenis identifies you as one of many all to common and rather mundane smug and asinine defamation artists who have no real concern for the truth. Apparently, you thrive on the feedback you get from folks of your same ilk. Too bad you feel a need to calumniate others. Hope you get over it some day.
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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SEDU 702 Teaching in the Multicultural Classroom SEDU 731 Applied Technology SEDU 692 Seminar on Teaching Adolescents EDUC 788 Research in Education SEDU 786 Secondary and Middle School Curriculum HIST 760 Readings in United States History SPED 710 Seminar in Exceptionalities SEDU 797 Action Research in Education ANTH 678 Pre-Columbian Native America Civilization HIST 615 History of...
Dec 22nd
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As a writer: Would you rather live out the rest of your life in total obscurity, poverty, and despair, only to have the significance of your work discovered posthumously, thus rendering your relative immortality and importance in literature? OR Would you rather live out the rest of your life with international fame and fortune and no worries, but have your writing crumble to complete...
Dec 22nd
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“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? …Well,...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via talkativolive) I love this exchange between Samuel Hamilton and Adam Trask. When I first read East of Eden eight years ago for my junior English class, I had envisioned, for reasons I am no longer sure, Liam Neeson as the Irish farmer Samuel and Tim Robbins as the...
Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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“What use one makes of a historical explanation is a question separate from the...”
– Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies  And this is why I want to absorb all of the information about everything.
Dec 21st
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Listen“Older” by Band of Horses
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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There is no doubt that the Republican legislators led by Boehner are refusing to pass anything that would reflect positively on President Obama. Flat out refusing. It is political hijacking at its worst - and it is at our expense. How are there so many people blind to this? This should be at the forefront of everyday discussion among Americans, yet I’d wager that the majority do not even...
Dec 20th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Some Belated Parental Advice to OWS Protesters  →
sickeninglyliberal: Call it an occupational hazard, but I can’t look at the Occupy Wall Street protesters without thinking, “Who parented these people?” As a culture columnist, I’ve commented on the social and political ramifications of the “movement” - now known as “OWS” - whose fairyland agenda can be summarized by one of their placards: “Everything for everybody.” Thanks to their pipe-dream...
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Here is my way too long, way too anticlimactic story from tonight. I think I’m delusional from exhaustion. EDIT: Apparently, my iPhone could not sense the orientation. Tilt your head accordingly.
Dec 17th
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“I am typing this having just had an injection to try to reduce the pain in my...”
– Christopher Hitchens from his January (last?) Vanity Fair article Trial of the Will
Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Travel Channel’s airing of Ghost Adventures is almost as baffling as the History Channel’s obsession with explaining historical events with the possibility of alien interventions. Being the channel that airs quality programming such as No Reservations, The Layover, Bizarre Foods, and Food Paradise, it’s surprising they air this “supernatural” nonsense. Now, I suppose...
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Listen“The Rip Tide” by Beirut
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 10th
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Listen“An Ending (Ascent)” by Brian Eno
Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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If you have not yet watched 'Norm MacDonald: Me... →
Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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“I think it’s a willingness to try anything with a smile, and whoever’s offering,...”
– Anthony Bourdain on keeping an open mind when traveling. When traveling, one can do it the way of the tourism guide (you know, coming back with those mundane stories that everyone dreads listening to) or the interesting and potentially life-altering way.  Take a wrong turn? Don’t drop the...
Dec 8th
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