Have Read (Seen, Listened To, Will Miss), Friday

The eye

Welcome to Have Read (Seen, Listened To, Will Miss), Friday. I’m hoping someone has managed to read a page or two of People, or Runners World, in order to contribute some dignified commentary. I’ve already posted this week that I will miss the location of my old job — far …

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Misery Shared

MISERY

I was offered a more challenging and better compensated position. I accepted. I will remain part time until I finish school in January, but I’m no longer employed by the Commission for Women. I’m now working for the Commission on Economic Policy. For the rest of the year I will …

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Have Read (Seen, Listened To, Will Miss), Friday

I have seen hundreds of books come and go. In reality more books came then went. Consequently, I sit here looking at shelves stuffed and leaking of books from all places in time. I realize the time has come for a few of these books to move on. These books, …

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Perspective

you see in me a girl obsessed with Argentinean poets a women fascinated by failed policy I see in me a girl stirred by stories appalled by situations A women disappointed, delighted, and drained by you

Fatal Distraction

MAD MAX THE ROAD WARRIOR DEPENDING ON WHAT COUNTRY YOU LIVE IN

I’m mad at Whoopi. She’s totally off not to recognize that Mel Gibson is a racist, sexist, anti-Semite, Mad Max man. Regardless, I have a hard time getting worked up about Mel Gibson. It is not like we didn’t already know he was bad news. There were clues. The 7 …

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Monsters, Mortality and The Misinformed

Sign of the times Children of the Sixties

Vapors of thought: Monsters come in many forms. Every so often a monster is brilliant and that brilliance acts as a shield, an excuse — Polanski for instance. Often the monster comes in the form of the rich or well connected — as is the case with any of several …

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