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Archive for September, 2006

Little Miss Sunshine!

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

I know I’m a little late to this party, but I was out of town when the movie premiered here.
Man oh man oh man.
What a fantastic, funny, horrifying (wait until you see the beauty queens), tear-jerking (actually cried while I laughed, and not because I was laughing so hard, but because it made me so [...]

The good news about college students

Friday, September 1st, 2006

To balance out the last post about college students with an inflated sense of entitlement, I thought we’d like to read what Garrison Keillor wrote this week:
“Last spring I taught a college writing course and had the privilege of hanging out with people in their early twenties, an inspirational experience in return for which I [...]

Tough love for whiners

Friday, September 1st, 2006

I can think of a lot of ways to adapt this list for writers, too. (Just because you wrote a book and your mother and best friend love it, doesn’t mean you’re entitled to get it published. Etc.)
You either agree with this guy or you don’t.
I do. In [...]

The maid of honor is a man, baby!

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Is this a trend or something? I’m going to two different weddings this fall, and in both of them the bride has chosen a man as her maid of honor.
The death to society as we know it? Or finally some equality for all those men whose best friends are women? From now [...]