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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Lesson Learned: The Titanic

America owes a lot to the Titanic disaster.
The tragedy has spawned award-winning Broadway plays, X-billion-dollar-grossing feature films, perfectly average novels, and macabre enjoyment rides (”We’re dying, Dad!” they scream in excitement. The father, sticking his polo-ed chest out proud, chuckles, “That’s great, sons.”).

If that isn’t enough, people simply won’t stop talking about it. Case in [...]

Childhood Remembered

I miss my childhood.
Childhood Remembered: Watercolors
I recently purchased a Crayola watercolor set and a watercolor pad on a whim. 
In elementary school, I loved art class, more than anything.
I remember painting the ocean skyline over and over again. 
I remember placing snowflake cut-outs on noses and wishing, hard, for snow, or more so, for a snow day.
I [...]

Protected: Guess the Ending: Bride Wars(!) —Password: spoiler

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New Feature: “Guess the Ending”: Bride Wars!

I’ve been told by many people that I am a media snob.
I can see their point: I’m too hard on films. I’m cynical when it comes to bad television. I’m open about my distaste for a good majority of mainstream music.
Yes, these are all prevailing reasons to classify one as a media snob, but I [...]

‘Fair Enough’ Returns

I’m back. Finally. (Sort of).
Over the past semester, I found blog writing can be tiring (yet rewarding), especially when life has other plans for you. For this reason, I want to introduce some new measures to keep the weight off of me as much as possible:

2-3 posts a week (minus Self-Promotion Fridays)
Guest Writers (Applications are [...]