Walking Uphill To School Both Ways in The Snow
Having teenage kids gives you a whole variety of reminders that you’re getting older. You’ve probably had that experience of running into old friends and first thinking, hey, nothing has changed and then realizing, um, I was pregnant the last time I saw her and now that baby is in college.
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Mid-Week News: She-Thang
Persephekittens and Persephecaboodles, salutations, and welcome back to another teeth-grinding, moral-punching, and soppy-biscuit-type-of-day news week.
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New Show Recap: Bones, Episode 8.20 “The Blood From the Stones”
We go straight to the body of the week with a meaty body left in a car for 5 days. The remains have decayed in two different ways due to microclimates. Booth checks out the trunk and finds a sawed-off shotgun with no serial number.
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Lunchtime Poll: Theme Songs
It’s been a busy week in my household. I am almost done with a largish kitchen remodeling project (and by “almost,” I mean “probably more than halfway”) and my daughter has strep throat.
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This Open Thread Is Here For Song
Kittens, seriously. What better way to celebrate your Tuesday, than a song?
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P-Mag Nostalgia Project: 1987
In 1987, I wanted to be Baby in Dirty Dancing. My best friend, Esmeralda and I played mixed cassette tapes on the boom box in the garage and danced. I had permed strawberry blonde hair, freckles, rolled jeans, and I was going to be a dancer.
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Science News: 3/26/13
So many cool science stories this week! Conditions were right for there to have been life on Mars! Daisy Morris, dinosaur hunter, is the coolest 9-year-old on the planet. And can earthquakes really turn water to gold?
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You Are Cordially Invited to This Week’s Fishiest Free-For-All: RuPaul’s Drag Race Edition!
Hi there, Persephoneers! RuPaul’s Drag Race was a repeat last night (boo!) so this here’s a free-for-all for us to dish on what we think about the season so far. Or what you had for dinner last night. Seriously, who am I, the thread police? Chat about what you want — just mention sequins or wigs or something.
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Middlemarch Madness III: Round Four
Today the Elite Eight will get narrowed down to the Final Four. The winner of each division will be ineligible to compete in future brackets, so choose wisely!
Read MoreSTFU, Steven Moffat!
As a writer, I’m always looking at what other writers say about the craft and their technique. But when I saw this little gem of genius erroneously attributed to Steven Moffat, I was, for lack of a better word, gobsmacked:
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Dear Michelle, It’s Me Again!
Just over two years ago, I wrote a piece about Michelle Obama’s “”Let’s Move”” Campaign. It challenged the First Lady’s use of the “obesity crisis,” fat shaming, and fat phobia as motivators to get kid’s moving in healthy ways and eating healthier diets.
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Weekly Anime Review
Psycho-Pass and Shin Sekai Yori have come to an end. The last episode of each show was quite nice and wrapped up the story nicely. They also didn’t bring any changes, but did leave it at, “Let’s hope for changes.” These two shows had a lot of things in common in the end. Chihayafuru is entering the middle of its …
Read MoreKickstartable: The Loves of Aaron Burr: Portraits in Corsetry and Binding
This week in Kickstartable, we have a project called “The Loves of Aaron Burr: Portraits in Corsetry and Binding.” How can you not click through with a title like that?
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30 Years of Music: 2000!
People, wasn’t 2000 only just yesterday? I swear that it was, even though I was still in high school then and still driving Sid The Angry Volvo (R.I.P.), and even though the musicians in some of these videos look like babies in comparison to now, 2000 just happened. Don’t spoil my illusion just yet.
Read MoreLunchtime Poll 3/26/13: First Books
Another bookish one today, folks. What’s the first book you remember reading?
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