RJ talks about Earth Day and errr Over Population?
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April 2008
The Best Place to Be
No I’m not about to shock all of you and talk about how synchronized swimming meets are the best place to be. I’m talking about a book, The Best Place to Be.
I have no idea why I was reading it. It made me nervous. Why am I reading all of these books about “middle aged women” who seem to be having weird life crisis and stuff? I’m not even sure this book ended up being about a woman with a mid-life crisis. I’m not really sure what the point of the book was.
The characters were kind of interesting. But. Not. I kept waiting for something to click – for that “ah ha, I get it now” moment. It didn’t come.
As I told Prince J – it was the perfect book to read during Synchronized Swimming – mindless, sort of boring, and I don’t really mind that I kept reading the same paragraphs over and over again because the synchro music was loud or the kids were crazy or the synchro moms were chatty. I don’t even mind that I have no idea what the book was REALLY about.
It kept me busy when I had no internet – and that’s good enough.
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True Believer
When TW read the CD case for True Believer and told me it was the second in a trilogy I almost said “forget it” – Printz Challenge or no Printz Challenge. I do not like to read books out of order. Ever.
But, I said what the heck and put the first CD in the player.
Right off the bat, it was a little disconcerting because the voice of LaVaughn is the same voice as “Baby Girl” from Upstate. I was afraid it was going to be such a similar book that I’d just be confusing my characters all of the way through. But it wasn’t like that at all.
None of the poor black teens went to jail. None of the poor black teens were having sex that they shouldn’t have been having, though there was Jolly who had already done that – a couple of times. There was also the gay boy storyline, very unusual in a novel about black city teens.
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Until the morning her husband, David Sals, told her he “was done” with their marriage, Jennifer Neal had portrayed him so lovingly on her blog that he was called DearSweetDave. By the afternoon of that October day last year, Ms. Neal had shared what s
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more on Aliza Shvarts
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Agenda
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I am joining Amy from Crunchy Domestic Goddess, and will donate 50% of the sales from my on-line store, Little Pumpkin Sweet Pea Designs, for the rest of April until Mother’s Day to the BlogHers Act/Global Giving project.
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Kragen is working on a great project with Aaron Swartz, Pradeep Gowda and Nathan Borror called watchdog.net. Aaron announced it yesterday on his blog “Raw Thoughts”, with a parallel entry on watchdog.net’s blog. The idea is to gather US political informat
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Nice slides – I need to come back to this for “that post”
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Elisa talks about the BlogHer survey
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But back to the session: you can learn more about Me Ra’s approach to photography instruction at her Refuse to Say Cheese site, but she proposed four different topic areas she could focus on during the session. We’d like your feedback on the top two for y
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Virginia is brilliant – she needs some books to review – send them to her
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considering badger’s point of view…. not sure this is quite “that”
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Members of the progressive blogosphere today applaud Barack Obama for his “subliminal cultural reference” aimed at Hillary Clinton. There’s nothing progressive about this crap from the Big Boyz in the Blogosphere. What the f*ck is wrong with these g
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A few small things, since I am unable to work…
1) I am developing a very odd fondness for @comcastcares – it’s scaring me, really, just how fond I am.
2) I am not developing a fondness for @RichardatDell – which says something, doesn’t it? About comcast and dell…
3) Having some “health insurance” issues and am trying very hard not to rant until I know exactly what I should be ranting about – or who I should be ranting about. That who part is important.
4) My daughter is now considering marriage again. But only if she can find a man with the last name “Doo” or “Due” or “Dew” or “Du”. At which point she will have a child and name it Whoop! Dee
5) House hunting in two cities sucks more than house hunting in one city.
And that’s it, because it looks like I can work again.
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links for 2008-04-17
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While I know many people think BlogHer is hopelessly old-fashioned with our editorial guidelines that ask review blogs to be separate, we find that this policy checks an important box for readers and with top-tier advertisers. And I personally think it he
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Talk about the power of Twitter! In this case, Twitter has become an effective substitute for “word of mouth”. What might’ve been emailed, IM’d, or phoned about has now been easily and efficiently spread to hundreds of thousands of users on Twitter. J
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After researching and writing my recent BlogHer/Global Giving project posts about Afghan women and the people of Darfur and then reading Her Bad Mother’s post about women and children in Nepal and Denise’s post about the HIV/AIDS stigma in South Afric
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May Bird: Warrior Princess
I was worried about May Bird: Warrior Princess because third books in series are cursed. And also because Cat was unhappy with it, or so sassymonkey said. I read it anyway and I think knowing the book was cursed helped.
I didn’t hate it.
I also didn’t love it. But really, I did not hate it.
Pumpkin? Liked it.
Legume? Liked it.
The end – did not like and that makes it hard to remember that there were pieces that I did like.
NASA? Ummm no. Unnecessary and wrong.
Somber Kitty? No, no and no again.
I hope this is the end of the series, for real, otherwise I’d be asking for a do-over – Somber Kitty and May deserved better than the last book they were dealt.
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