On A Poem By Sherman Alexie
I don't have the words to do this justice. Thank you.
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On How To Get And Keep A Mentor
This isn't mentoring, it's ritualized smarm for assholes: a primer.
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On Reader, I...
I enjoyed this. Would provide a suitable footnote but am html inept.
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On Candi Collecting Pallets
For some reason this post makes me feel rathah uncomfortable. Maybe I have my class sensitivities dial jacked way too high but I am detecting a bit of a squicky "LOLpoorpeople" vibe here. I don't know, I just don't find it very funny that in all likelihood "Candi" ("LOL her name was poor-people weird but it sounded vaguely like this!") will never get any closer to affluence than she did in that conversation, while Choire will never get any closer to poverty.
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On Inside David Foster Wallace's Private Self-Help Library
Well--duh. I was just wondering if you have any thoughts as to why it's "pulchritude" rather than the no-less-ugly "pulchritudinous." All the others are adjectives!
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On Inside David Foster Wallace's Private Self-Help Library
What about "pulchritude"?
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On Inside David Foster Wallace's Private Self-Help Library
Un plaisir, ma vieille.
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On 21 Blasters, Ranked In Order Of Apparent Usefulness
The pan-galactic gargle blaster should clearly be number one.
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On Ross Douthat, the Fake Soft-Pedaler of the Culture Wars
Ross's columns are pretty much all him covering up his ears and screaming "IT'S THE STORK IT'S THE STORK IT'S THE STORK!!!!"
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On I Have Thoughts About Commenting Systems!
I have a secret Hairpin identity that is not this one (kind of like a super hero, oooor a serial killer) and I like having them separate. It wouldn't be disastrous if they merged, but I would HATE having one Disqus name across the Whole Internet, for the slashficky reasons mentioned by another commenter above.
Anyone else pronounce Disqus "discus" rather than "discuss" in their head? *whistles* Ok then.
Oh also no FB obviously.