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I've been thinking a lot about the Richard Prince controversy. My initial response is to be outraged, but the more I think about it, the more uncertain I am ( Read more... )

From electricdruid:Ask me questions. What do you want to know about me? What would you like to see me talk more about? Is there anything you have been curious about me? Anything you know about your other friends but don't know about me? Comments are screened ( Read more... )

I've realized that the reason I haven't been around as much is that reading my friends' list has become a bit of a chore - the last thing I want. Part of it is that some of the most prolific posters are people who (and they all seem like nice people), I added during various friending frenzies and never quite clicked with. So I'm going to do a purge ( Read more... )

For a few years it seems like people have been complaining about how dead LJ seems. My solution has been to find new people. It doesn't always work, but sometimes it works spectacularly. Most of them I find through friending memes, like the one below. If you need to shake things up, consider playing.


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17-year old Savannah Dietrich faces contempt charges for disobeying a court order and revealing the names of the two 17-year old boys who admitted to sexually assaulting her ( Read more... )

filmstar linked to an article about making friends in your 30s.

REACTION ONE: THAT IS NOT TRUE OF ME AT ALL

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Close.

One of the things that separates livejournal from the facebooks and twitters of the world is the ability to write out long, complex posts that deal with nuance and substance and really deal with something in depth1But one of the hardest things sometimes is to put a lot of effort into a post and then ... nothing. Because deep down, we are all ( Read more... )

I feel like I'm often bitching about pop music, so here are two relatively recent giant pop hits that I love:

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