Jane Gassner

Am I Too Old To Blog?, in which I mount my hobbyhorse for a long ride…

02.28.2006

Today’s turn through my blog roll turned up this little gem from NYU’s Digital Journalism class group blog. A whippersnapper named Zack Baragan wrote a heartfelt piece entitled “Sometimes You *Can* Be Cool Past Your 30s,” in which he managed to unearth many of the ageist cliches that my generation came up with in the [...]

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A Few Interesting Links…or, Links that Interested Me Today

02.27.2006

The finale of Dancing With the Stars was last night, and I wasn’t too, too disappointed. I really wanted Stacy to win, but I’m comforted by knowing that she’s got an active career ahead of her now. I worked out with renewed vigor after every DWTS showing. In my mind, I am just that supple [...]

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Finished Object

02.25.2006

Finished Object Originally uploaded by byjane73. This is Kayla modeling the poncho I knit for her. It is my first FO in quite some time. She really likes it, even if she looks like she doesn’t. She has major attitude and is the only person I know who has been ironic since she was about [...]

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Illustration of The Creation Myth

02.25.2006

DSCF0008 Originally uploaded by byjane73. This is Sam, posing with his illustration of Kayla’s Creation Myth. He wanted in on the act and wrote his own version of her Creation Myth, but Kayla told him hers was copyrighted. He hasn’t a clue what the Creation Myth is about. But then she obviously hasn’t a clue [...]

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THE CREATION MYTH

02.18.2006

according to Kayla…or “Where do Babies Come from?” There is a hawk that can do anything. How to be pregnant: A man meets a woman. The woman says, ‘Oh, I’m having a baby.’ They rush to the hospital. Then the woman lays on the bed. Then there is a hawk in the woman’s stomach. The [...]

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where r i?

02.16.2006

I’m on the road to LA to do my kidsitting stint with Kayla (10) and Sam (7). I hope to have amusing or amazing, if not pithy reports that will qualify for a Pulitzer in Mommy blogging.

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The Academy Awards

02.13.2006

I am having an Oscar party on March 5. I always have Oscar parties when I don’t live in LA because I am so desperate for company watching the Academy Awards. In Bethlehem, PA (we from Pennsylvania always say P-A after the city), I had four of my fellow doctoral candidates over for Boboli and [...]

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Walmart

02.09.2006

There are certain things that upset me so much I am rendered inarticulate. Like Walmart. The store/ethos is such an affront to my value system and morals that I can only blather when I think about it. I am reduced to ad hominem attacks and foul language so I tend to avoid the topic. If [...]

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The Truth Is…

02.07.2006

always a fiction of sorts, isn’t it. What we know to be true about ourselves are the stories we tell. Those stories are never photographic recreations, even when they seem most real. They’re a mosaic of memories, ours and others, filtered through everchanging lenses created by the need of the moment. Faulkner said that if [...]

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MeMe Me Me ME ME MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

02.04.2006

4 jobs you have had in your life Barmaid Greyhound Bus Information Operator Lawbook Proofreader Teleprompter 4 Movies you could watch over and over Like dooce, I can’t watch any movie I’ve already seen. I mean like, what’s the point? Except, of course, I did see Gidget eight times. And then there was An Officer [...]

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