January 2010

Pretty, the Series: A web mockumentary

01.29.2010

Late in the evening when there’s absolutely nothing else on, I have found myself on occasion watching Toddlers & Tiaras. It’s one of those train wreck reality shows in which overweight parents groom their small children to compete in obscure beauty pagents usually held in the Deep South. I feel guilty about watching it, at [...]

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Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Revision, Looking At The Big Picture

01.27.2010

Here is the first essay/blog post that will be the subject of an on-going editing dialogue. This is the first draft, untouched by human hands, as it were. Your job is to read it through and offer general comments that will guide the writer in revising. Grammar, punctuation, word choice–they are the stuff of editing. [...]

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Age, Wisdom & Whatever Else I Know…

01.25.2010

Since I’m roughly halfway through my life, you can expect the following to be half wise.

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I’m Mad As Hell and I’d Like To Tase The Lot of Them

01.22.2010

Wanted: one taser that works through the television.  If I had had my hands on such a thing last night while watching the Newshour on PBS, I would not have suffered such a migraine headache and three cracked molars from clenching my jaw so as to not scream out loud, at… The Supremes who, in [...]

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Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: The Miracle of Paragraphing

01.19.2010

Do you write short or long? Do you meander into a story, or just get right to the point? And does it make a difference? I’m asking this because I’ve been aware for a long time that I have a prejudice against reeeaaallly long blog posts. There are people I like whose blog topics interest [...]

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Hey, Facebook: Thanks for giving me more than just memories

01.18.2010

She was beautiful, smart and funny and I had an enormous schoolboy crush on her.

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A MidLifeBloggers Contest: Win a copy of Hormone Harmony

01.15.2010

I have had an unwilling absence from the internet.  My cable went out.  Yesterday.  Or maybe the night before while I slept.  Of course I didn’t know that when, perky as could be, I took my coffee into my office yesterday morning to read the papers on-line.  My perk faded pretty damned quick when I kept getting [...]

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Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Facing The Page In The Long Gray Days of Winter

01.13.2010

It’s January, that cold gray endless month that follows the hey, everybody! glitz and tinsel of December. Let’s pause for a moment while I get fully into my cold, gray, endless mood… Okay, I’m there. So–how are all those New Year’s Resolutions workin’ for you? Not so much? Me either. And what do you do [...]

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A Cougar Moment

01.10.2010

When we were introduced, I felt SOMETHING. Slightly muted, but it was there. Chemistry, perhaps, smothered in a few coats of dust

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Great Interview Experiment: DaVe from FupDuckTV

01.08.2010

The sideboob & underboob article is a debate that I’ve been kicking around for a while now with friends.

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