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Recently we put up a bird feeder. It wasn’t really my idea but not a bad one and I can watch it all day, since I work alone at home. There’s a lot of different kinds of bird feeders and bird seed and we had a long confusing process in the store about what kind of feeder might be liked by different birds and then what kind of bird seed to put in it. All the bird seed seemed fairly...
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Number Nine, Number Nine
I have a burning desire to read n+1 issue #9, brand new right now! It has everything I like in a magazine! Nightlife critiques. Molly Young. Zombie novels! Something headlined in the imperative about full employment! And something on WEBISM (I DON’T KNOW WHAT WEBISM IS BUT I THINK I AM PROBABLY GUILTY OF IT, IF IT IS AN -ISM AS WE UNDERSTAND THEM).
Seriously, I am going to buy the fuck out...
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Internet Skills Refresher Course!
1. Are you on the Internet?
2. Can you Google up a way to email yourself?
3. Then no one else can either!
4. Should you fix that?
5. Even, like, a distinctive Facebook account would help?
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Subject Line: "you racist son of a bitch"
The other day we got an email that started like this: “hey, as a casual observer of your blog, i noticed you don’t have anyone on ‘the black beat’ or any black writers (from what i can glean as a casual observer of your blog.) don’t white readers care about weaves and gun wielding black men with grills and record deals and angsty pieces about reparations and...
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ONE OF US, ONE OF US
firmuhment:
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A Clarification on the State of Being a Huge Bitch
E. Spiers reasonably assumed from my post of yesterday that I was slagging off the people who are in the Times blogging article, published today. I can see why people think that. But the email I posted here yesterday was sent to the Times reporter on March 9—before I’d seen any list, and before the list was finalized. So I was not sending that to attack any of the people selected!...