November 2010
17 posts
some words about jon stewart and his rally. and... →
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today's big questions:
dave eggers is giving a free lecture tonight at the illini union, and afterwards he is going to stop by illini media. he used to work for buzz and really wants to meet us all and see how things work now. so, um, that includes me.
that being said and considering this is the kind of blush-inducing, dizzying celebrity encounter writing obsessives dream of, i need to know a few things.
1. do i...
i wrote today! →
i need to write more. NEED. i have been writing in a notebook almost everyday, just making myself sit in the same place and writewritewrite. it’s been good, successful, but what i need now are people to read, people to keep me writing. myself is only enough encouragment sometimes, and realizing that has been pretty important to my college degree as a whole, let alone to writing.
having...
"Mad Men": A Postseason Retrospective →
Above all, Mad Men stands out for its unflinching and unvarnished depiction of the racism and sexism its characters, along with their casual cruelty toward Jews, gays and lesbians, and disabled people. Not that everyone gets the point. Historian Beth Bailey notes how unsettling it is to realize that many viewers have embraced the show’s characters and period as the epitome of cool. Similarly,...
all i did was make sure my name was spelled...
“January Jones is amazing. But I hate Betty as a person, and sometimes I just...”
– Kiernan Shipka (Sally Draper) 