May 2013
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“If it’s important that girls of color and girls of different economic...”
– Merida from ‘Brave’ gets the Disney princess treatment, ie rib-removal surgery. The point here may be that merchandisers are hacks, whereas film animators are artists.
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(Eats second breakfast)
Me: "Ooh, eggs sound good!"
Me: "But we just had breakfast in New York."
Me: "But what about second breakfast?"
Me: "I don't think he's heard about second breakfast."
April 2013
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Watchpatch:
Livestream of tonight’s debate between Mark Sanford and Elizabeth Colbert-Bush, begining at 7PM.
About to boot up!
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Kodable Teaches Kids To Code Before They Learn To... →
Teaching kids to program is a huge trend today, but it’ll be at least 15 years before Kodable’s five-year-old audience enters the workforce. Who’s to say that by the time these kids grow up, programming jobs will still hold the status they do now?
Any parent that teaches their kidnergartner skills in anticipation of the job market 15 years from now should be cracked over the head with a Sit...
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“Nurse Kim Giroux was working in Medical Tent A at the finish line of the Boston...”
– Tewksbury Nurse, ‘It Was Like A War Zone’ - Tewksbury, MA Patch
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“During interviews with middle-class Boston parents in the 1980s, she and her...”
– Parental ethnotheories and how parents in America differ from parents everywhere else.
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Gowanus Canal to host its first regatta in June →
jennyjennybobenny:
He added the race is a friendly competition open to all, and costumes are welcome.
“We really don’t know what to expect, but that’s how it is on the Gowanus Canal,” he said.
Haha. WHAT to this whole thing. People will definitely become ill and die that day.
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Grandmom Faces Neglect Charge For Leaving Boy, 11,... →
patch:
I find it hard to convey how legal it was, and how much I appreciated it, whenever my mom abandoned me in a department store in the 1980s.
The kid in this case was 11. If leaving an 11-year old in a Wal-Mart is illegal then allowing an 18-year old to sell Cutco should be a felony.
March 2013
“The kind of writing wire journalism was built on, and which can be quite...”
– Felix Salmon explaining the difference between the voices in Reuters wire copy and his blog posts.
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“Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the...”
– The introduction to “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” in its entirety. I watched the new Oz film with Bug tonight and it was better than the critics say.
My daughter is an Oz enthusiast, so I’d read a few reviews, and they all said the same thing: uninteresting characters, pretty images, an attempt to...
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“Of all the people I interviewed, SNL writer and current Sen. Al Franken,...”
– Woodward’s John Belushi book suggests he’s humorless, cynical, or ignorant of how normal human interactions work.
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90s Deep Track Came on iTunes Just Now: As you...
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February 2013
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