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A quarter century in black and white.
I remember reading about this in a 70s issue of Seventeen, sometime in the 90s. I've been trying to figure out who the photographer was for the longest time, and I always, always liked this photograph. Seventeen gave it the caption "An androgynous couple in a high school hallway".
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at 8:20 PM on June 30, 2008
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Brijit, best of the web
Not bad for college kids who need essay-writing practice and maybe some extra money. (Although last I checked, essays were about throwing in extra BS, and certainly not about paring it down to the essential details, haha.)
And the pornstar sister article - yes, that is one goddamn sad story.
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at 11:46 AM on April 3, 2008
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Bloggers in Parliament
I grimace at the media's usage of the word "blogger", as if it's such a delightful and strange quirk.
the bizarre sodomy prosecution of Anwar
posted by dhartung at 10:17 PM on March 9
Bizarre indeed. I recall thinking, Sodomy? Really? Was that the best accusation they could come up with?
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at 1:19 AM on March 10, 2008
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I know a bot
I love how the Swedish video has the guy singing "She cleans up our channel" while gesturing towards the (water) channel.
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at 8:33 AM on March 8, 2008
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Photoshop Disasters
tristeza: OK, seriously, is this poster even *supposed* to look like a photo? It can't, right? It's like a really bad drawing.
UbuRoivas: To me it looks more like a really unimaginative logo turned on its side.
Auz: Tch... kids today.
Yes, but the dude's muscles are still messed up. Not John Lennon. That Dane whatshisface.
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at 4:16 PM on March 6, 2008
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Turn Your Bookshelves into Art
This reminds me of a snippet in Anne Fadiman's Ex Libris - where a friend of hers hires an interior decorator to take care of the place, only to return and find the books organized by color and shape.
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at 3:15 PM on March 4, 2008
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Be part of the "counter-culture"
Someone needs to declare today Sexually Active Day. If only to spite the prudes.
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at 3:15 PM on February 14, 2008
These Liberty Council chaps need to come out with a book. Preferably with a cover photo as dodgy and unintentional as this Anglican book.
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at 5:22 PM on February 14, 2008
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DAMMIT!
Aagh. Although my violin is a cheap one from who-knows-where, it plays better than other, more expensive violins I've come across. My mother loaned it out to a cousin without my knowledge. I flipped out. Doubtlessly I would have had a conniption if I or anyone else had smashed it.
For a year, I played a violin that was on loan to me by a friend. As much as I tried to like it (expensive! beautiful!), it just wouldn't cut it. The acoustics were dull. The... [more]
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at 8:21 AM on February 14, 2008
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Room in a Box
I'm still waiting on those Dragon Ball capsules where you can stuff half the planet inside.
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at 8:07 PM on February 13, 2008
MeFi post:
College Photographers of the Year 2007
How do these colleges or students manage to get themselves to Peru, Vietnam, Gaza Strip just for a college newspaper article or their portfolio?
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at 7:03 PM on February 9, 2008
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totally postmodern bro
Ugh. Come on now, WHO actually goes around speaking in the high, cutesy tones of Super Pink Happy Lucky Anime Character? (A lot, but you know what I mean.)
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at 2:56 AM on January 18, 2008
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Picking Up Girls Made Easy
BUT HOLD ON... before you go tearing out there on these 'exercises' i'd like to share the following public service announcements from the Seventh Day Adventist Church with you...
When I was attending an Adventist college, the semi-official word was that sex didn't exist. And then they'd have to throw out students who were having sex on the picnic tables outside, or in the dorm lobby.
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at 8:19 PM on November 3, 2007
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"Three snags will lead to disqualification"
The neighborhood kids and I played with rubber seeds. It involved crushing the seeds together between hands ... but since we were weak primary schoolers, we'd rock-paper-scissors who took top and bottom, then crush them against a table.
Cheating involved carefully hollowing out a rubber seed, then filling it up with candle wax. Many stories are told about a certain kid's rubber seed that managed to crush the shell of one of these cheater wax-seeds.
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at 8:11 PM on October 12, 2007
By "rubber seeds", I mean seeds from rubber trees.
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at 8:11 PM on October 12, 2007
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Surprisingly, Space Jam isn't listed
Whenever I hear of kids being scared of Bambi and the likes, I can't help but think of them as being such wimps. And they're supposed to be the desensitized youth of America!
I watched it, other kids watched it, we were cool with it.
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at 9:06 PM on September 30, 2007
Although I do remember some animated film about some bird being wiped out as being terribly depressing. Possibly the dodo. The birds get knocked out and shot at by farmers, one by one, until only Girl Bird and Boy Bird remain. After missing each other just by a sliver for a long time, Girl and Boy finally meet up. And then some farmer kills one of them. Depressing yes, but I wasn't all ZOMG NEED THERAPY NOW about it.
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at 9:08 PM on September 30, 2007
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Pre-Videogame Era Toys
Ooh. I had a My Little Pony version as a kid. I couldn't understand the rub-on stuff, or what that little spatula was for. And when I was told how it was to be used, I just couldn't understand WHY anyone would want to go through that whole process. I somehow managed to lift them off and apply them directly. Some got on my fingers at the same time, too. Probably wasted half the sheet. But still, fun times.
Thanks for the post. All this week I've been wondering what in the... [more]
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at 8:52 PM on September 30, 2007
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A Plague of Mice
Reminds me of that one scene in Ratatouille, where all the rats come pouring down from the ceiling.
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at 1:05 AM on September 20, 2007
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Get off my lawn
I'd pay to watch angry old people in their wheelchairs and rockers, railing on about the youth of today. Preferably using a selection of funny words. And while I'm in a drunken state.
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at 8:27 PM on September 11, 2007
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Happy Patriot Day!
Flowers are a surefire way to snuff out the "I'm tough" vibe in photos.
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at 8:00 PM on September 11, 2007
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A Picture Counts
I always wanted to know what happened to that one white girl with face all scrunched up and contorted, possibly sticking a tongue out, at one of the four students. Possibly Dorothy Counts, but pulling up pictures of her on Google reveals no contorted-face white girl next to her.
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at 5:04 PM on September 4, 2007
MeFi post:
No thanks! I am going home to masturbate!
Next up: The California Teen Sex Show, The Brooklyn Teen Sex Show, and The Mormon Teen Sex Show.
(/me thinks about possible discussion topics each podcast might bring up)
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at 3:41 AM on September 2, 2007
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100 posts in one!
Eew, Zamzar? Only after they start offering immediate downloads, instead of emailing me the link and telling me to click my way to my email inbox first. (Yes, it's probably two clicks total and I'm a total lazybones)
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at 12:55 AM on August 31, 2007
