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"Two years as a professional writer and she has the cover story in The New York Times Sunday Magazine. How will she ever recover from the damage blogging has wrought.
Feh...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by climalene, bitter-girl.com
Last month
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"IANAL. But the U.S. laws on taking pictures from public property are pretty well settled, with minor exceptions for clear privacy violations (i.e., shooting from a sidewalk through someone's bedroom window). By settled, I mean that if you're shooting..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by missmagenta
2 months ago
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"The point of the article is that the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs did not document rogue soldiers' excesses, as the administration has claimed, and as the media has largely reported.
In fact, the photos were windows into the official U.S...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Miko
3 months ago
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Freeze frame
favorited 24 times, recently by agregoli, lunachic, madamjujujive, malaprohibita, jrb223, perilous, ronin21, Haruspex, Bovine Love, Venadium, dabitch, nicolin, elgilito, katillathehun, ethel, eriko, MaryDellamorte, Kikkoman, Bighappyfunhouse, M.C. Lo-Carb!, kliuless, raconteur, penelopepenny, LobsterMitten
4 months ago
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Seeking stories of kids with superpowers?
favorited 11 times, recently by alyxstarr, gc, jaimystery, hades, fuzzbean, not that girl, nenequesadilla, librarianamy, worldswalker, safetyfork, lampoil
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"So, is Men's Vogue going to have lots of these how-to articles? Like, "How to seduce your kids' nanny and screw your wife on the settlement while sculpting fantastic washboard abs"?
Cause that's a magazine I would totally subscribe to...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Dreamghost, ill3, mecran01
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Blogs are engaging in journalism. Reporters are engaging in stenography.
People who talk like this, in my experience, don't know any reporters.
So the blogs are the future, hey? Aw, bullshit. Blogs can do connecting-the-dots type analysis, and..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by sebastienbailard, alidarbac, Wolof, klangklangston, WPW, designbot, Jimbob
7 months ago
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"Ooo, I always wondered what a mashup of Veggie Tales and "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" would look like.
Yep, you have to wonder what audience would pay to see this. There's a reason, maybe, movies are made with teams. "Great..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, BrotherCaine
7 months ago
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"I had my doubts about getting married. This is what settled it for me:
I loved to come home to her. The idea of waking up without her made me sick. The most "beautiful" women in town did not make my heart flutter the way she did.
We..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Mozzie, sondrialiac, Jurate, koakuma, brain cloud
8 months ago
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"Here's an article on a man who teaches interviewing, from American Journalism Review. I have found it helpful in guiding fledgling interviewers. The page includes links to suggestions on "What to do" and "What not to do."
One..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by frosty_hut
8 months ago
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"College instructor myself.
Tell the prof what effect their action had on you. Give them a chance to square what might have been a momentary slip.
If their response is anything but a sincere apology and pledge it won't happen again, take it up..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Laura_J
10 months ago
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"My wife and I had been married for several years before I realized that I wasn't talking honestly with her. We weren't communicating, really. I would say what I thought I should say, and she would say what she thought she should say. The unsaid truth..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
11 months ago
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"I married my wife 13 years and three children ago. The work we have put into our relationship, including our physical intimacy, has made it literally true that we're "More in love than ever."
Is she heavier now? Sure. But she is acutely..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by AlisonM
Last year
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"The Wire on HBO, which is produced by a former crime reporter and a former police detective." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by anildash
Last year
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"I'm a dad who loved loved loved having a doula. Best money I ever spent at a hospital. Interview to get the right one.
For $150 US we got an registered nurse with 25+ years experience in birthing rooms as a coach/consultant in the room with us..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ilsa
Last year
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"Thanks, Professor Lamewad.
I feel for the guy. I teach at a New York State university, and I find students who have picked up hip-hop culture (mainly white but some blacks, Asians, Latinos) to be huge energy sinks as students.
That is, they not..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by pitseleh, MythMaker, sidereal
Last year
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"My wife was adopted, found birth mother at 20. A couple things she always tells people:
The woman and man who raised her are her mother and father. Get the terminology straight. Don't assume there ought to be some automatic bond with people she..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by miss lynnster
Last year
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"If you should somehow find yourself in the unfortunate position of being in Boston whilst craving BBQ, you have only two choices:
That's a damned lie.
Plus, you left out the best one: Redbone's, Somerville MA...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zaphod
Last year
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"The Pakistani secret police tortured a guy in Pakistan who screamed out enough stuff to roll up the dudes they'd been watching in England. We've seen this movie before.
No airline tickets purchased by these guys at all. Some didn't even have..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by orthogonality
Last year
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"So let's see if I have this right:
1. Longtime boyfriend agrees to her plan to have her quit job, quit former city to move in with him.
2. Longtime boyfriend dates and has sex with another woman, violating explicit agreement of monogamy and,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Brainy
Two years ago
