February 2012
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Vibram's New Trail Shoes →
Hmm. Might have to look into these when I can run again.
Maybe they would have saved my dumb ass when I fell in the mud.
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USA! USA! USA!
Down goes Italy!
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Who the Hell is 'Lago?'
I have seen something like ~85% of my students refer to Iago in Othello as ‘Lago’ or ‘Largo.’
Where do they get this crap?
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bendawson asked: 1) Have you started PT yet? 1a) If so, was the first thing that was done to you the old "Somebody grabs the joint that's wounded and yanks it in an uncomfortable direction? 1b) If not, good luck with PT when you start 2) It's been a ... week. Can I mix my whiskeys together to make a SUPERIRISHWHISKEY?
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rosa--sparks asked: Do you know how to use Skype? Because I don't. Would you like to join me at the matinee and buffet? I can sneak us in on my AARP card.
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fairylights asked: Top 5 books (fiction or non-fiction)?
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allisonunsupervised asked: I'll be driving through what I believe to be your neck of the woods early this summer. Where should I eat?
Rumpus Box Still Open
So, so bored with these quizzes.
Ask me things: books, surgical procedures I have enjoyed, books, whiskey, beer, books. Hmm. I am kind of limited in my areas of expertise.
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2yellows asked: Thoughts on Joseph Conrad in terms of place in history? I'm torn, I've always loved Heart of Darkness, but he seemed limited overall.
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Here's a List of Literary Characters Who Can't Be...
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Seriously, the idea that literary characters are somehow unable to be played with is insane.
You know what would be gone from the world of literature without such play?
Every hero since Gilgamesh.
Every heroine since Antigone.
Every detective since Auguste Dupin. Yes, that means your precious Sherlock too.
All of Chaucer, Marlowe, and Shakespeare.
In short, very little...
Wait, What?
People are bent that a reimagining of Holmes and Watson would have an all-woman cast? With great actresses playing these parts?
Of course, the whole thing depends on the writing more than anything. The BBC ‘Sherlock’ works because great actors are playing out great scripts shot beautifully. Not because it’s a mainly all-male cast.
My lands some folks have GOT to get lives....
What's the Rumpus?
I’m grading bad quizzes, so ask me something.
Physical therapy day 2. I’m exhausted and hope I get some interesting exercises as the ones I’ve been doing are so boring.
Two Easy Payments
And my back surgery will be paid off. Just 20 months afterward.
And just in time for the bills for my shoulder to start rolling in. Gah.
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PAGE LIMITS, MAN.
johnwatsonismyco-pilot:
lord-kitschener:
foxmurphy:
They’re my archenemy, I swear. My analysis of “The Burial of the Dead” (from T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland): finishes at 8 pages. The page limit: is apparently 6 pages. Well, damn.
It’s The Waste-Land. Just write a note to your teacher saying “Fuck it, this poem is meant to be over-analysed.”
I’ve personally never had a professor mark...
JasenComstock: Suit Says Obama Can’t Run In Alaska... →
myrealtake:
abaldwin360:
Alaska-(ENEWSPF)- A man from Juneau, Alaska, has filed suit with the state’s Division of Elections to bar President Obama from appearing on that state’s ballot on the basis that the President is a “Mulatto”, and “the race of ‘Negro’ or ‘Mulatto’ had no…
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Combine Thoughts, Part 2
When do they check their teeth?
NFL Combine
Hell yeah I’m watching the Combine.
The OLinemen doing the 40 is mesmerizing. Especially when I think a) they outweigh me by 150#s or more, b) still run much faster and more efficiently than I do, and c) would reduce me to a pink mist if I was standing there at the end of the 40 yards.
I miss foobaw already.
New York Man 'Grows' Six Inches Through Surgery →
This is gd disgraceful, and any surgeon who lengthens bones for cosmetic reasons aught to have his/her medical license revoked.
I know being a short man is more often than not a social stigma, but this is grotesque. “Gattaca” here we come.
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Real Talk
Haven’t had a beer or nuthin’ since three days before my surgery, and while it’s been no big deal abstaining until now, boy howdy could I go for a Hahpoon Smoothie or three right about now.
Not under doctor’s orders not to drink, but it does seem like a great time to cut out the suds. Seven anchors in my shoulder say, ‘hey, let’s not do something stupid, ya...
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“That’s exactly what made America so different, we don’t have that colonial...”
– David Barton
HAHHAHAHAHAHAAA!
What? Really?
I swear, some people will say anything.
(via greaterthanlapsed)
Also from the article: ” One of the things we often see with other militaries is they rule by intimidation, by threats, by terrorism really, they want to scare the dickens out of the...
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“He is rigid and a homophobic. He said, ‘I want a constitutional amendment to ban...”
– Former US Senator Al Simpson, (R-Wyo.) on Rick Santorum. In 2011, Simpson emailed me this statement on HB 74, a bill to ban recognition of same-sex marriage in Wyoming:
“I can’t imagine anything more inhuman, insensitive and unfair. Wyoming people believe in getting the government out of their...
“Manny Ramirez is the worst human being I’ve ever met.”
– Former Red Sox manager Terry Francona once said of Manny Ramirez. (via boston)
You wanna play spies?
Sitting in my chair, because I’m not allowed to sleep in my bed for another 5 weeks, wearing a heart monitor, because I was bradycardic in recovery last week, and knowing my insomnia is going to keep me up again tonight …
I - I’m just a delight. A moveable feast if ever there was one.
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Quote of the Day 2:
I’m at a real loss here. I guess the poor white girl should never have married outside her pure whiteness?
[Othello] explores the consequences of an inter-racial marriage that is a common occurrence in this increasingly liberal world of ours.
Quote of the Day:
It may seem that there is something interesting going on, although it’s not.
Well, that’s quite a limb you’ve gotten yourself out on.
