May 2012
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April 2012
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March 2012
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HOW I DISCOVERED THE HUNGER GAMES
LitWit Challenge 2.12: The Birds and the Bees
May 18, 2010 By: jessicazafra Category: Books, Contest
Do you remember how you learned about sex and reproduction? I don’t recall my parents ever giving me the talk. I think I saw some cusswords etched on a school desk, asked around for definitions, and extrapolated the rest.
In the fourth grade or so we were shown an educational film about cells,...
NOT IN MY HOUSE.
I am a gay kid born in the 80s, and I am part of that generation where other kids taunt us “Bakla! Bakla!”—making us the butt of jokes and ridicule in school, and in the neighborhood. But my mother raised me well; I know how to deal with bullies without wasting my fairy dust. I am now a 25-yr-old grown gay man, and I still encounter bullies. Things never change though: I still...
February 2012
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January 2012
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Drake's Diary: Sixteen Stylish Maxims for the New... →
drakes-london:
Style and taste are a particular sort of intelligence, and vice versa.
Aesthetic judgments rarely transcend the culture of the judge.
The style of studied nonchalance is the psychological triumph of grace over order.
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. Which is why Fashion is shallow, but taste is deep.
There’s no right or wrong about style. Like a poem, it...
December 2011
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LAKWATSERO: The Macaulay Culkin Syndrome →
THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE READ THIS CHRISTMAS.
It’s the season of giving, and this piece is meant to be shared.
jeffcanoy:
I have, as my friends call it, the Macaulay Culkin syndrome.
Every Christmas, I dream of not being home alone.
Since returning to the Philippines eight years ago, my December calendar is usually filled with four words – work, work and more work. It’s a way of...
The Christmas Non-Miracle
Before the holidays:
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After the holidays:
