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Steal this quote

Jim Jarmusch in the Winter 2004 issue of MovieMaker Magazine:

Steal this quote

Failing at FAIL Blog

I can’t bring myself to leave this apartment. I really need to get out now.

But first behold my submission to FAIL Blog, which I love unrequitedly. It didn’t choose my picture, but I’ll get over it:

Failing at FAIL Blog

Of packrats and perfection

Anytime I’m home, my mom asks me to go through the boxes upon boxes I’ve filled in fits of nostalgic packrattery. Hindsight doesn’t always help, because even when I know I didn’t miss having that note my best friend in sixth grade wrote me, complete with Cheetos smudges, I get all gooey (though less so when the item is literally gooey). “I can’t throw this out,” I think. “Someday, my kids or biographers might want to see this.”

Of packrats and perfection

Birds make great Christmas gifts!

Below are some ads I found in Corpus Christi’s local classifieds publication. They should tell you all you need to know about the town where I grew up.

Birds make great Christmas gifts!

The teachings of Life Coach

My dear Life Coach wrote this beautiful, thoughtful post over the weekend. I got to play editor before it went live and was really impressed. He’s taught me a few things about relationships. Here are some Life Coach pearls of wisdom:

The teachings of Life Coach

The last time I checked, I was a woman

I just read Philip Galanes’s Social Q’s column from yesterday. All the questions and answers were good. But as a gender-neutral blogger, I really liked this:

The last time I checked, I was a woman

Anblogyny

My pal Jeremy did some investigating at GenderAnalyzer and reported back:

Anblogyny

If you can read this, you might not want to thank a teacher

Every six months or so, I see some story about a professional of some kind who fooled everybody into thinking he or she was perfectly qualified for his or her position while actually illiterate.

If you can read this, you might not want to thank a teacher

Woody Allen wouldn’t have had to marry his own daughter

Six male writers answer the question “What makes an ideal woman?” Insight is achieved:

Woody Allen wouldn’t have had to marry his own daughter

Let’s talk about stocks, baby

Stock market got you down? I stumbled upon this humor article called “How to Talk to Your Kids About Stocks” this week. Here’s an excerpt:

Let’s talk about stocks, baby