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I disappeared. Not just from LJ. A lot of things started slipping through the cracks, and I quickly grew to love the darkness beneath the surface. It's not that I jumped off stage, grabbed a bag of popcorn, and lounged with the audience. I think I just found another stage; I've been learning new tricks ( Read more... )

I just survived (at 9:34 on Monday night) the most surreal weekend of my entire life.

It was insane.  I would write about it, but it was so fantastically bizarre that I'm not sure it would be believed.

Happy Birthday, Redtheblue!

You must watch this.

I catch this going through my head all the time now.

Last night LB and I returned from a three-day camping trip to the Cumberland Mountains in eastern Tennessee.  We spent most of our time in White County, which is known as "The Land of the Falling Water."  Seven waterfalls and several miles of hiking later, we discovered that our muscles were mad sore.  Needless to say, today has been a lazy day.

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Meet Shaquanda Cotton:

I am a 14-year-old black freshman who shoved a hall monitor at Paris High School in a dispute over entering the building before the school day had officially begun and was sentenced to 7 years in prison. I have no prior arrest record, and the hall monitor ( Read more... )

I stumbled upon one of the best articles I've read thus far that critiques contemporary society's favorite cliché yet: political correctness.

Here's an excerpt:

Simply put, the great "PC" cliché, as commonly deployed in mainstream discourse, is cultural propaganda designed to befuddle and misdirect while defending the current power structure. All ( Read more... )

Don't ask why my brain created this scenario:

On Monday morning Ashley's mother, Mandy Motton, discovered that her 16-year-old daughter had been cutting school to listen to music in her boyfriend's car.  A duty teacher from BS high school caught Ashley and her boyfriend, Kevin, sitting in a car listening to Justin Timberlake's newest album.  In a ( Read more... )

What does it say about life that so many people opt to spend New Year's (a day representing the rest of the year) recovering from an alcohol binge?