Ah The Glories Of Having A Best Friend With A Region 2 DVD Player…

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September 25th, 2010

…For we are not beholden to the likes of BBCAmerica. We can roam freely in the land of UK TV on DVD. Thank you Region 2 DVD player, for Blackpool, and for David Tennant doing choreography to The Smiths.

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Really Kj? Another Picassa Collage?

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September 8th, 2010

Last week I had my first day as Teaching Assistant for “Introduction to the Hermeneutical Task” at MHGS. Professor Dwight Friesen invited me to introduce myself using any images I might like. I hemmed and hawed, and eventually since it was a class about how we approach and interpret text, I decided to show a [...]

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Synesthesia and the Playlists it Produces -or- Welcome to Fall!

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August 26th, 2010

I know autumn is near, not from a change in the weather but from the amount of times I’ve been pressing skip on my Summer ITunes Playlist. Around the 3rd week of August, the hot magentas, highly saturated turquoises and scorching blacks of my summer music start to grate on me and I begin to [...]

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Life on Venus

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April 14th, 2010

This is part of my last assignment for my last spring of seminary/grad school. It’s an image showing my current theological space. I’ve been inhabiting a different planet for some time now. I could call it Planet Lent/Holy Week/Resurrection. I could call it Planet People In My Room Late At Night. Or Planet Not-Submarine. But [...]

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Tiny Movie Review: The Runaways

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March 20th, 2010

Smartly made and well-played; With echoes of 24-Hour Party People and The Velvet Goldmine, this ambivalently girl-power film should have Twilight fans vomiting in terror for weeks. 4 out of 5 stars

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The “Roller-mance of the Library” Scarf for:

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January 14th, 2010

Name: Erin M. Blakemore Location: Boulder, CO Occupation: Writer and Director/Marketing/Social Media Consultant at the company I co-founded and co-own, VOCO Creative A significant difference between California and Colorado: In California, I cry and curl up under massive blankets when the temperature hits 55. In Colorado, I laugh and go bare-legged. Also, rockabilly is apparently [...]

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December is A List-Lover’s Favorite Time of Year

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December 15th, 2009

While I’m currently chained to my desk working on my last paper of 2009, due Monday dec 21st, i figured I’d encourage myself my posting my annual list of paper titles a little early, as proof to myself that I have indeed, on numerous occasions, actually completed the paper-writing process. Seems like I wrote fewer [...]

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Like Muriel Rukeyser’s poem…

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September 17th, 2009

…which asks, “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open,” this video exemplifies my belief which posits, “What would happen if one guy danced with all his might? The world would come running.” I think its as important for men to feel free to dance as [...]

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"We will never know how the mind turns the water of our cells into the wine of consciousness"

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August 3rd, 2009

Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah LehrerMy rating: 3 of 5 stars I was drawn to Jonah Lehrer’s book when I saw a light blue paperback with a madeleine cookie on the cover along with the word “neuroscientist”. Tasty looking indeed. When I opened it up, I saw that an entire chapter was devoted to [...]

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tiny secret sentimental haiku

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June 20th, 2009

To borrow EltonJohn’s words, “Yours are the sweetesteyes I’ve ever seen”

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