August 2008
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I feel like this should be a "Gimme a Break!"...
The traffic cone. Also called toddlers, road cones, and safety cones, this little orange triangle has become a universal warning sign since its inception in 1914. The flashy orange and reflective paint let passersby know to watch out and go slow; there might a dangerous situation ahead.
Traffic cones have a rather limited set of uses. Any time one is traveling on the highway and that ominous...
I'd like to engage in sexual intercourse with you...
Probably since I first heard it I’ve had a yen for penning a thesis on the 2008 smash hit, “Love in this Club,” performed by Usher. In just four minutes and twenty seconds, Usher very poignantly confronts issues like the African American male ego, post-feminism in modern America, and general socioeconomic hierarchies. After much brainstorming, I decided nothing would illustrate...
In the dumps.
“What we are witnessing is the rich and the super rich making off with everything we’ve got,” -Thom Hartmann, September 22, 2008 I don’t know much about a lot of things but what I know is that I am melancholy, truly melancholy, about the state of the US economy and what it means for my future as a citizen of this country. When asked about this horrific, unjust, and...
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What I'm saying is get your frame stores out of my...
The only picture I can remember framing is a picture I took with my friend at the American Girl store in Chicago a couple months ago. A couple months ago meaning I was 25 years old. And what. The only reason I framed that thing is because it came with a frame. I don’t frame things. I feel that frame stores, stores specifically designated to frame artwork, fall in the same category as dry...
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Confession
So this isn’t so much a confession as it is an attempt to uncover why I watch The Hills.
I watch The Hills.
The Hills is a wildly popular spinoff of MTV’s Laguna Beach which follows the lives of four 20-something females living, (barely) working, and playing in Los Angeles, California. I have been watching this show since its inception and I simply cannot turn away. And I’m...
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IRATE
So my BFF and I were out and about in our fair city of Chicago two months ago. It was June. It was lovely. The weather was magic and the people were smiling. I don’t recall what we were doing or what day it happened to be, but I do recall noting to my BFF that we had seen three, count them - three, people that day with canes. “Is something wrong?” I asked. “Has there been...