February 2012
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American Homophobia
Some twenty years ago, when I was a high school student at a Catholic boys’ school in Texas, I came back to my homeroom desk after having been away in French class. The other Geoff (there were two in our class of 37) had been sitting at my desk while I was away, and he had left me a note. A parable about fear and love and religious hypocrisy. A poem, actually, of which I remember every...
“More than 700 low-wage workers, known as writers, clock in every day, and,...”
– ‘Huffington Post’ Employee Sucked Into Aggregation Turbine | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
“known as writers”
January 2012
“Even worse,” Barstock continued, “there’s this huge picture of...”
– The Bennington Vale Evening Transcript: Google Changes Privacy Policy to Pave Way for Bold New Platform
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“It’s like the old days. Like when Sheena Easton would come on the radio on...”
– Amazon.com: G. M. Barnes “Geoff“‘s review of Cortelco 48044001812 255444-VBA-20MD…
I heard you can make money writing product reviews. Yo, product review needers, let’s do this.
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Rick Santorum For President? →
Rick Santorum has an SEO problem, but it’s not the kind of SEO problem most people have. As this Mother Jones article sums up nicely, searching for the candidate on Google (or Bing, etc) tends to return the site spreadingsantorum.com among the first few results. So if a concerned conservative (or liberal) voter tries to learn about Rick Santorum’s policy platform or Rick Santorum for...
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Final Year's Resolutions
Pay no attention to my most important relationships. Should I happen to come to awareness of said most important relationships, make sure not to treat them as if they’re special.
Buy more books; finish reading fewer of the books I buy.
Stay up late more often, eating and/or drinking unconsciously on the sofa.
December 2011
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“Be friendly, you idiots.”
– @nostrich
Quote of the year.
Robert Reich: Why the Republican Crackup is Bad... →
robertreich:
Two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, the Republican crackup threatens the future of the Grand Old Party more profoundly than at any time since the GOP’s eclipse in 1932. That’s bad for America.
The crackup isn’t just Romney the smooth versus Gingrich the bomb-thrower.
Not just House Republicans…
Sometimes, I really love this guy.
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“I will let Julie and Alex in right off.
The rest of yous are on probation.”
– My mom, with whom we’re hoping to stay with later this week, responds to our holiday card.
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Suburban Report
Jason stopped over with a bottle of gin. He had texted me, earlier in the week, to ask me if I wanted one while he was at the store, and I told him I did. But when he arrived today, he confused me by presenting it as a gift. I told him no, no, let me give you some money for it. Here, I said, I have enough money to pay you for the thing you got me at my own request. No way, he said, it’s a...
Julie Kresen Barnes, Master of Science In...
Congratulations, Jul.
Fix me?
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I Work For The Internet →
True story.
“Jack Barnes is in a relationship with Name Changed To Protect the She’d...”
– Welp, there’s something new. Thanks, Facebook! Because, swear on my grandma’s grave, I don’t think I was going to hear about this from a more credible source.
At tuck-in time tonight, I quietly showed him the status on my phone and said, “So, I saw this today,” and I...
Spirituality
I’ve been paying attention to what spirits I really like and don’t like, for about a year and a half now. That makes me what’s known as a serious novice, and it’s high time I start mistakenly feeling like I’ve got something of this to share with the world. Therefore let me tell you about the four spirits of this Christmas.
Around the holidays, a lot of people start...
The Sauce
I’m making the kids their first Eggs Benedict this morning. Alex is about the age I was when I was first introduced to this little corner of culinary heaven, and realizing that reminded me of my first Eggs Benedict.
My family was in New Orleans or Galveston, what’s the difference really, staying at a hotel with high-hung, slow-turning ceiling fans in the lobby. White Doric columns to...
The Mind of the Beholder
reasonforalarm:
How we perceive a thing depends upon our emotional state - our state of mind. When our state of mind is positive, we receive new information in a positive light. The same goes not just for negative emotional states, but for a wide range of mental and psychological conditions that mix to comprise our frame of mind.
We experience this simply when we snap at someone undeservedly...
November 2011
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