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"Areas of My Expertise" Free on iTunes
The hysterically funny John Hodgman's audio version of his The Areas of My Expertise is free on iTunes RIGHT NOW. Go ( Read more... ) -
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I haven't written much this year, and I haven't been around as much as I would have liked to, but I do like to think that my obsessive pimping of the Mountain Goats to all and sundry is having some effect. If you like the band, or even if you don't, you might enjoy Last Plane to Jakarta, John Darnielle's blog about everyone else's music, where he ( Read more... ) -
Fun with statistics
From an Inside Higher Education essay on the MLA committee on tenure's final report ( Read more... ) -
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Thank you thank you and THANK YOU to everyone who helped pull my birthday out of the tank by posting jokes, manips, vids, and limerick prompts. Limericks! The cure for all ills ( Read more... ) -
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So it's my birthday, and it's been a truly craptastic one.
I never do things like this, but... distract me? I'll try to reply in kind.
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LJ Drama!!!1!
I think it's important for me to note, at this point in time, that I am, in fact, a sock puppet.
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Unspoilery "The Wire" Post
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Dental pain healed, knock wood. My dentist, who keeps wanting me to look at my various back teeth and LEARN (to which I say, um, really? Will it be on the exam?) described the situation with my previous, failed crown as "it's as though you had a piece of popcorn stuck under your gumline." For a week. Gah, no wonder it hurt ( Read more... ) -
Two things
1. I am having massive dental pain on the side of my mouth *not* currently scheduled for major invasive dental surgery. WHY GOD WHY?!?
2. I thought that this debate would be over by now, but since it's not, allow me to weigh in on Helen's awesome Take Clothes Off as Directed. Go read it if you still haven't: on top of being a wonderful story in ( Read more... )