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Mainstream K. Goes to the Movies: Marley and Me
For my first foray into reporting from the Mainstream, I decided to investigate Marley and Me. Obvious choice. The movie was number one at the box office throughout the entire holiday season, and has made about $120 million so far.…
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When Legal Matters Inhibit Good Journalism
The Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger dives into the complicated issues that arise when newspapers attempt to unpack the most complicated topics.
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MAINSTREAM K.: A New Rumpus Blog About Pop Culture
Hi. I’m Mainstream K. It has come to my attention that my favorite new magazine, the Rumpus, has a healthy paranoia of the Mainstream. (Because Steve treats it like a country to be invaded, I am capitalizing the term.) As…
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Letter from Paris, Part 9: Now, Here Was Paris
We pass a well, a perfectly round mouth in the stone where all this blue water spills out.
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Morning Coffee
The best morning of your life, every weekday at 6a.m. NPR on the books that James “Sawyer” Ford reads and the literature of Lost. The blog of unnecessary quotation marks. Bulgaria v. Czech Republic, a hoax sculpture sparks a diplomatic…
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Letter from Paris, Part 8: Nazis in the Catacombs
The water isn’t as cold as I’d imagined, and it isn’t dirty.
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BAD MOMMY: Watching The Bachelor with my Daughter
“What is this show about?” my four-year-old daughter asks. “Are they going to dance?” “In a way,” I say. “A mating dance. It’s a game. See, these girls compete to marry the boy. In each episode they have to impress…
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Fiction Used to Justify Real Torture
Jack Bauer, that torturing hunk of manliness whose bad days involve more nuclear weapons and sexy double agents than hangovers and parking tickets is back
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FUNNY AMERICA: 5 Presidents
It is the wackiest photo-op since Sarah Palin went herself a-turkey-farming. Three ex-presidents, the current president and the future president all kicking it old school, chilling in the Oval Office talking about what cool carpeting abounds. The five of them…
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BITCHCRAFT: In Addition to Rewriting the Words of Kurt Vonnegut I Have Been Working on the Dominatrix Dress Made out of Bin Bags
Word So, well, how’s that for slow blogging? I have, as is obvious, been cross stitching lately. My heart got broken over Xmas and you’d be unsurprised how little cross stitch helps with that. But still – it has its…
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Waste Time Better: Random Alternative Self-Help Links by Ainsley Drew
Read The Secret online? Subscribe to daily affirmations and meditate for fifteen minutes a day? Or pay $90 for The Sedona Method? You’re nuts to think that stuff like that could possibly help you. Here are a few links that…