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April 2003
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“A harrowing experience…”
04.24.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on “A harrowing experience…”har·row \har-‘õ\ n : a cultivating tool that has spikes, spring teeth, or discs and is used esp. to pulverize and smooth the soil
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Helen Phares Hunter, 1916-2003
04.20.03 | Permalink | 2 CommentsContinuing our venerable family tradition, my grandmother died early this Easter morning. Her husband died ten or fifteen years ago, exactly one month after Christmas. My other grandfather died on New Years Eve, and my other grandmother died the day after Christmas. She moved from Nebraska to an Oklahoma dairy farm when she was a […]
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Clothes make the psychiatric patient
04.16.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Clothes make the psychiatric patientCrazy Tracy is at it again. Nurse to the emotionally gifted, Crazy Tracy matches up your favorite psychiatric diagnoses with their unique fashion sense. And what about depression, my personal favorite? Well, we don’t care, really. Bathing, dressing, personal hygiene–just so much unnecessary trouble. C’mon, it’s not like we’re going to get out of bed! […]
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Still thinking about graduate school in the humanities?
04.14.03 | Permalink | 9 CommentsThe Invisible Adjunct continues to persuade me that a PhD in the humanities is a bad idea. Well, shit. Having already gone through the ardors of a useless graduate professional degree, I know all too well what risks are involved in entering a PhD program. Unlike academia, my former field (divinity) is well aware of […]
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Dissent & profit
04.14.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Dissent & profitMichael Moore reports that neither he nor the Dixie chicks have been hurt by the “Oscar backlash.” In fact, they’ve been making extra trips to the bank because of it. Frank Rich (on Moore’s website) had this to say: Mr. Moore’s boorish Oscar night yelling, far from relegating him to obscurity, seems to have enhanced […]
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Lessons from a parking garage in OKC
04.12.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Lessons from a parking garage in OKCOver several days of visiting grandma in the hospital, some trends emerged. Keep in mind that there are one million people in the Oklahoma City metro area–so parking garages are common in office parks and high traveled parts of the city. But perhaps its possible to refuse to adapt. Parking garages are scary. Parking garages–even […]
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