minou commented on David Sedaris: Do You Remember Smoking?,
at 6:05 PM on Apr 28
@BigRiver: A friend of mine, after hearing that the relative of an acquaintance had been struck by lightning (and lived), said: You know what I'd do if I got struck by lightning?
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minou commented on Hemingway Continues to Diss From Beyond the Grave,
at 12:06 PM on Apr 26
My favorite Hemingway anecdote:
Hemingway boasted(in a letter to Sara Murphy)that, in a boxing match at his home in Key West, he had knocked Wallace Stevens down quite handily: "...
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minou commented on "I Love the Ghetto": Bushwick Hipsters Explain Their Outfits, at 8:07 PM on May 8
@Clarence Rosario: I've always wanted to take a busload of Royals and drop them off in Detroit, to the same end.
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minou commented on Filthy Hipster Dorm Infiltrated, at 10:13 PM on May 7
@mattymcd: I hope the Times is paying you well to illustrate their point because, wow, you really deserve it.
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minou commented on Christina Aguilera: Blue, Possibly-Blotto Baby Mama, at 12:10 PM on May 1
this is probably the first time she's had a drink in, like, a year.
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minou commented on Ivy League Prof Sues Students For Being Mean to Her, at 6:11 PM on Apr 29
@Raxl: Well, multivocality would mean that it IS the student's responsibility to learn as well as the instructor's responsibility to teach, no?
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minou commented on Ivy League Prof Sues Students For Being Mean to Her, at 6:04 PM on Apr 29
@1000 Tony Romo DJs: I should let you in on this fact: some of us working in those areas have heard this news.
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minou commented on Ivy League Prof Sues Students For Being Mean to Her, at 1:49 PM on Apr 29
@Dave J.: "Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of writing and Science" by Steven Meyer, pub 2001.
Some one is writing about it.
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minou commented on Ivy League Prof Sues Students For Being Mean to Her, at 1:38 PM on Apr 29
She's at that point in the process where she probably just got hit by all her student loan debt.
I guess this is one way to pay it off.
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minou commented on David Sedaris: Do You Remember Smoking?, at 6:05 PM on Apr 28
@BigRiver: A friend of mine, after hearing that the relative of an acquaintance had been struck by lightning (and lived), said: You know what I'd do if I got struck by lightning?
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minou commented on Which One Of The Five Types Of Moms Do You Have?, at 7:48 PM on Apr 27
@minou: I should mention that my Dad is a pretty wonderful creature, a perfectionist who genuinely believes it's possible for me to be perfect because he thinks I'm great.
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minou commented on Which One Of The Five Types Of Moms Do You Have?, at 7:16 PM on Apr 27
mean/unpredictable/perfectionist mom.
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minou commented on Hemingway Continues to Diss From Beyond the Grave, at 8:28 PM on Apr 26
@belltolls: I'm not picking on you, Bell, we just keep respectfully disagreeing.
It is worth looking up, Granite.
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minou commented on Hemingway Continues to Diss From Beyond the Grave, at 8:22 PM on Apr 26
@belltolls: For my part, I have a huge problem with "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" and would have give up on Stevens were it not for "The Idea of Order...".
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minou commented on Hemingway Continues to Diss From Beyond the Grave, at 12:43 PM on Apr 26
@Seeräuber Jenny: Ha!
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minou commented on Hemingway Continues to Diss From Beyond the Grave, at 12:42 PM on Apr 26
@belltolls: This is one of my favorites also.
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minou commented on Hemingway Continues to Diss From Beyond the Grave, at 12:06 PM on Apr 26
My favorite Hemingway anecdote:
Hemingway boasted(in a letter to Sara Murphy)that, in a boxing match at his home in Key West, he had knocked Wallace Stevens down quite handily: "...
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minou commented on Plus-Size Miss England Contestant Would Like To See Your Bikini Line, at 7:08 PM on Apr 24
@Xavoc: Once and for all, the most flattering two-piece bottom on a big girl is a bikini with side ties.
It's counterintuitive, I know, but in that situation, the less material the better.
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minou commented on Is Top Chef Just One Big Lesbianic Morality Play?, at 1:47 PM on Apr 24
By the way, I think it's a "Sapphic" morality play.
Oh my god it's working.
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minou commented on Is Top Chef Just One Big Lesbianic Morality Play?, at 1:45 PM on Apr 24
@minou: Holy shit.
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