December 2010
20 posts
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– ~ Neil Gaiman (via gatekeeper)
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Pro-tip: Questions and Context
“How much experience do you have with girls?” is one of those questions that can either be tremendously tactless or heartfelt depending on its context.
If that context is randomly IMing someone after receiving their screenname over three months ago, not revealing who you are/your purpose, and treating the conversation as a one-way street: it’s tremendously tactless and earns the...
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Day 15 - Favorite male character
This is why I fell off the wagon with this meme. Sitting and critically thinking about why I best like a specific character from a particular book is beyond me sometimes.
If I were to actually get up and crack open the book I would be quickly reminded of all the empirical reasons that I enjoyed Mr. Segundus’ character from Susanna Clark’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. He’s...
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Day 14 - Favorite book of your favorite writer
(Ahem, I’ll just pick up where I left off.)
Underground Education, by Richard Zacks.
Not exactly groundbreaking, but a book I’m more than happy to own. It’s like the snarky, sarcastic cousin to Charles Panati’s Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things. It’s hardly a definitive book on the subjects it covers, but it’s an excellent jumping off point to ask...
“Neuroscience and social deviance! This is the best Christmas yet!”
– Me after opening one gift to find Eric Kandel’s “In Search of Memory” and Ninjalicious’ “Access All Areas” :D
(Also, 300th post! Very necessary addendum!)
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