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Everything Bad is Good For You by Steven Berlin Johnson is the book project I mentioned in my Weekly Geeks #9 post. I really enjoyed reading this book and would recommend it to others, but only with the caution that anyone seriously interested in cultural studies and pop culture is going to be left wanting [...]
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Last weeks Weekly Geeks was a blog scavenger hunt, which seemed really cool, but I just didn’t have the energy to put the time it required. I think I used that excuse for missing Weekly Geeks #6 too… Anyway, I’m really impressed with the bloggers that did it and got a lot of posts, that [...]
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This weeks Monday Tally is pretty heavy on articles from MSN, which is probably a good indication that I didn’t have as much time to randomly surf the internet as I usually do. Instead, most of the things I read came from links off my homepage, a vicious cycle of being spoon-fed articles from a [...]
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I have to start out by saying that I am a huge David Sedaris fan, so I went into reading this book with pretty high expectations. Unfortunately, my expectations were too high and I was pretty disappointed with his newest collection, When You Are Engulfed in Flames. Because I love Sedaris, I read through the [...]
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Hooray, the second Monday Tally! Since I was paying attention, I have quite a few more articles and things to think about for this week. “Question of the Week: Going to journalism school – yes or no?” by Robert Niles at the Online Journalism Review — I subscribe to OJR, and read it once in [...]
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I skipped Weekly Geeks last week because I got super busy and just didn’t have time to catch up on reviews… lame, right? Anyway, I’m back on board for Week #7 of the Weekly Geek challenge (courtesy of Dewey at The Hidden Side of a Leaf). This week, we’re challenged to do something with photos, [...]
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I finally finished reading Lilith’s Brood, a science fiction trilogy by Octavia Butler. I say finally finish reading because I’ve been working on finishing the book since May when I read the first section, Dawn, for my class on science fiction. I’ve been trying to push through the other two stories, Adulthood Rites and Imago, [...]
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My favorite non book related blog is Office Tally, a fansite for the NBC show The Office. Each week Office Tally does a weekend tally — a collection of links and stuff related to the office that’s happened over the weekend. Inspired by that, I’ve decided that I’m going to start a Monday Tally, which [...]
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Right now, I have four books in progress, and just bought two more at Borders today. I really want to start finishing things, but I have such a distracted personality at the moment no book holds on to me long enough for me to make any real progress. That, and I don’t have much time [...]
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