Archive for August, 2008
What Happens When We Actually Follow Through With The Mode of Reasoning We So Ignorantly Propose
There’s a nice satirical rebuttal to that absurd proposed regulation I wrote about earlier. I find it quite brilliant.
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An MTV interview leads Stephanie to finally spill the spicy beans on her rock star husband’s secret Harry Potter band: Gred and Forge. I am so elated for Stephanie and Jarrod. I can’t believe what good secret keepers they are. It sounds like the Chicago/Terminus trip was completely awesome. And the music is GOOD.
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James Joyce Irish Pub
Well, we can say we did it. Last night we went to the James Joyce Irish Pub. We went because we felt we needed to complete our mission of having visited every Irish bar in town. We can all agree that Atlanta is not the most happening place for such a mission, which can explain [...]
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Initially, I was turned off by Gregory Maguire’s Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister because of its appearance. Everything about it’s design—the image on the die-cut cover, the thickness of the pages, the large size of the font, the illustrated decals in the corners of the pages, the illustrated page opening each chapter—makes it look like a [...]
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Bound
I just finished Donna Jo Napoli’s YA spin on Cinderella: Bound. I’d recommend Bound to any YA reader. In addition to simply being a good story with interesting characters, Bound could be used in the classroom to discuss adaptations and the recurrence of tales across cultures and times. My only criticism is that the ending unravels very quickly; perhaps I [...]
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NaNoWriMo
Is anyone a veteran of NaNoWriMo? I’ve been resistant to the idea for some reason…..oh yeah, grad school and mommy-hood, those reasons. However, I feel pretty grounded now when it comes to working and writing. I have a spiffy new office on the bottom floor of my place; my office used to be upstairs. I hadn’t estimated [...]
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Top Ten Graphic Novels
From Guardian Books, Top Ten Graphic Novels by Danny Fingeroth. What are Fingeroth’s criteria?
“Here are my subjectively chosen top 10 graphic novels. But why these? The very nature of a guide is premised on the idea that, a) here are the things that someone with a reasonable amount of experience reading and thinking about comics feels [...]
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Oh, Bush Administration! You are so prolific in your exhibitions of idiocy…I am humbled.
I can’t believe what I just read over at The Wall Street Journal: Treating the Pill as Abortion. Yeah, right. And everyone knows that forcing insurance companies to not pay for birth control pills would be an awesome step forward for humanity and [...]
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Volume 2, Number 1
The new issue of SUB-LIT is live. Woo! Check it out. Spread the word.
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