February 2011
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Spitalfield - “I Loved the Way She Said...
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“I’ll be very honest,” Foster responded to the all-white panel. “When I walked in...”
– Jaime alerted me to this article and now I’m all annoyed, but this is what pissed me off the most. There’s a reason so few of the people working for the HCZ come from the community, and it’s the same reason the community needs the HCZ. What’s more, to just look at people and assume they don’t know...
January 2011
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justamanandhisblog asked: I saw you have the TeuxDeux app on you iPhone. Do you like it?
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Washington Post - In the streets of Cairo, many... →
Welp.
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60 Awesome Search Engines for Serious Writers →
(via writingadvice)
Finding the information you need as a writer shouldn’t be a chore. Luckily, there are plenty of search engines out there that are designed to help you at any stage of the process, from coming up with great ideas to finding a publisher to get your work into print. Both writers still in college and those on their way to professional success will appreciate this list of...
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The Female Student Psych Crisis →
But after doing a followup survey, Sax found a potential cause that’s even more insidious. She tracked 17,000 students over four years in college to examine the role faculty play in students’ emotional health. When she asked her subjects how frequently they challenged their professors in class, she found that men who confronted teachers saw a decline in stress, while women felt just the...
50 things everyone should know how to do. →
Feeling pretty baller that I’m confident in the majority of areas listed—however, I’ve gone 21 years without holding a baby and I don’t plan on learning how anytime soon (no matter how many of my wonderful colleagues reproduce). Here’s to 63 more years of my arms remaining baby-free!
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“We don’t expect anything from Obama, whom we regard as a great hypocrite. But we...”
– Egyptian blogger and activist Hossam el-Hamalawy talks to U.C. Irvine history professor Mark LeVine at Al Jazeera. (“We Don’t Expect Any Help From America, Just To Leave Us Alone.” | The Awl) (via jasencomstock)
This is interesting and I want to have it here.
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Mother Jones: What's Happening in Egypt, Explained... →
(via theatlantic): This is an incredibly useful guide. Give it a read.
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“I get it. You’re an aspiring author. You live in New York and you have writers...”
– Erin Goldberger, 3 Articles I Am Sick of Reading [Thought Catalog] (via diana vilibert)
Or blogs I am sick of reading. (via youveescaped)
I’m actually significantly more sick of reading about how twentysomethings are lost in the world and can’t get their shit together, something that...
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“They have pistachio ice cream and I love pistachio. So whether it was snowing or...”
– Zach Burroughs, “The Story Behind the Ice Cream Man” (via msavignon)
I am no longer going to go on about how great D.C. is because I know you all understand that now with the advent of the Ice Cream Man.
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Academia, etc.
Just got an email from my adviser suggesting that the American Studies students working on gentrification (I think they’re all Ph.D.s, except for me. Story of my life. Also, embarrassing) put together a session proposal for an upcoming urban/regional planning conference. We need to send in abstracts by next week and I’m like, “Heh,” because UGH OH MY GOD I GRADUATED AND...
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Lil B: Understanding Rap's New Rebel →
If this hadn’t showed up on my Dashboard I was going to seriously consider asking Tumblr User Anaforo to explain “Thank you, Based God” to me (if you think I have been living in a hole of local D.C. news recently, you’re right!).
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