December 2009
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Decade isn't over for another year.
mikescollins: chrisreblogs: mir777: patbaer: The 00s are almost over, but the decade ends when it’s ‘11. Indeed. Not to nitpick but a decade is any collection of ten consecutive years. Exactly!  If you want to get technical, we celebrate a new decade every day! Why is everyone being such a buzzkill?!  Bring on the new decade! (Also, I would be annoyed if VH1’s I Love the 80s started...
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Read my story on make____! →
My friend and former co-worker Sarah Von Bonn created a new sort of online magazine where the aim is to get people to make things based on a theme. The site is called make____ and the first theme was “Number One.” The finished products are all really great. I submitted a short story called “Moonlight Skate.” If you feel so inclined, submit for the next edition! It could be...
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What English Sounds Like to Foreigners →
An Italian rock star wrote a song intended to sound like English, but is entirely gibberish. It’s pretty rockin’ too. This is always something I was curious about, and whenever I meet people who speak English as a second language, I ask them to imitate English sounds. I asked a guy from India to do this, and he responded, “Oh, I don’t know. I do know that when I am home...
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healywu: nicolemarietherese: A book set in a campus radio station at a women’s college where all the DJs are witches…that’s probably going to veer pretty close to chicklit, isn’t it? Miles, can you weigh in as the saddest young literary man I know? I am not positive, but I don’t think it’s chicklit unless someone gets proposed to, or is working towards their potentially glamorous but...
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WatchWatch
Kirby sings carols Kirby, the family dog, sings Jingle Bells. Accompanied on the snowman by Cody.
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Gamin'
chrisreblogs: [ASSORTED SPOILERS: (1) If you were involved in the game I started last January or whatever, I am going to blow a lot of the background here. (2) If you don’t know gaming (and probably specifically World of Darkness (original, not the crappy reboot)), a lot of this will make little sense. (3) I, yet again, expose myself as a massive nerd.] I’ve been rereading China Miéville’s The...
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