Apt. 11D

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01/17/12--05:32: Stay at Home Spouses and Their Critics (chan 1445837)

I have long been a fan of Nancy Folbre's blog posts at the New York Times. She typically discusses the economics of parenthood, and I've regarded her as a champion of families in all their various shapes and sizes. Today's...


01/17/12--11:04: The Saddest Thing I've Read Today (chan 1445837)

If you read a blogger for years and years, you feel like you know them. You don't really know them, of course, but there is a closeness. Heather Armstrong, aka Dooce, just wrote a very sad post. Her depression problems...


01/18/12--10:21: PIPA and SOPA? How about NOPA! (chan 1445837)

The protests are growing. More from Lawyers, Guns, and Money, Perez Hilton, Ezra Klein, more Ezra Klein, Meetup, Oatmeal.com. Minecraft is down for the day. Here's a petition from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. A petition from Google.


01/18/12--16:45: Photography Class (chan 1445837)

I'm going to torture you all with my photography classes for the next two months. Ha! I'm the Queen of Apt. 11D and I get to torture people. Blogging is an excellent pastime. (Speaking of torture, we just started watching...


01/19/12--05:15: Dollars and Common Sense at Universities (chan 1445837)

I'm doing a little poking around academic expenditures this morning, she says vaguely. I came across this fascinating article about Rutgers. Apparently, Rutgers is cutting funding for professors, while bolstering their athletic program. Rutgers University forgave $100,000 of the football...


01/19/12--10:50: Shit New Yorkers Say (chan 1445837)

Pat Kiernan!! I miss him so much.


01/20/12--05:38: A Thursday (chan 1445837)

4:00 Jonah, are you doing your homework? J: Um, yeah. How many more definitions do you have to do? Oh, there's your brother's bus. Hurry up, hurry up. You have to be at school before 6:45 for your band concert....


01/20/12--11:12: The Whys of Academic Paywalls (chan 1445837)

Let's say you get an obscure and alarming disease. Let's not make this scenario too scary. Let's say that this disease turns your big toe green and emits an embarrassing odor. What's the first thing that many of us would...


01/20/12--12:01: The Morning Bagels (chan 1445837)

This is "Max is Rushing in the Bagels to a Restaurant on Second Avenue for the Morning Trade" by Weegee. I just came from the Jewish Museum's Radical Camera exhibit. Loved it.


01/23/12--05:28: Newt (chan 1445837)

It's grey outside in my basement office. There's a pile of damp and rapidly molding ski pants dumped on the laundry floor. I have a bag of gym clothes waiting with good intentions by the front door. I have a...


01/23/12--07:00: Silly Head (chan 1445837)






01/23/12--09:00: The Walk of Shame (chan 1445837)

Over the weekend, I told my dad about our new favorite show, Shameless on Showtime. William H. Macy plays a fall down on the floor type of drunk, who scams the system for social security and disability checks which he...


01/24/12--06:47: A Blogging Dinosaur (chan 1445837)

A friend sent me a link to an interesting article about online college education and the unbundling of universities. It reminded me of a blog post that I wrote years ago, and so I dug around to find it. Back...


01/24/12--11:02: What's Wrong with Mitt (chan 1445837)

What aren't conservatives rallying around Mitt Romney? I don't think it's because the other candidates are so strong. It's simply because Mitt is a terrible candidate. He's coming into these debates over caffeinated and over prepared. He breathless tries to...


01/24/12--11:08: Spreadin' Love 562 (chan 1445837)

Billy Cundiff's Facebook page. "I was gonna tell you to go to hell, but then I realized you live in baltimore, so that would be a step up" I'm so glad that I'm not Billy Cundiff right now. Skiing in...


01/25/12--04:49: Photography Class (chan 1445837)

I'm taking a photography class right now. Our assignment for the week was to take an abstract photo that explores color. Here's my photo. Here's a shot from a reader, Lisa SG. Isn't it lovely? Disco Color comes from Sandra...


01/26/12--09:04: Day Off (chan 1445837)

I'm taking a day off from the Internet. Recharging the battery. Open Thread. Send links of good stuff to read/look at when I return, please.


01/26/12--12:18: Where the Wild MILFs Are (chan 1445837)

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01/27/12--04:59: Spreadin' Love 563 (chan 1445837)

Turning old books into sculpture. A baby bat learns to fly. Waaaah. So sweet. (Thanks, lmc!) Check out this great slide show of reimagining vintage furniture. I'm picking up my buddy Suze from the busstop in an hour, and we're...


01/27/12--10:51: Whippets? 80's Drugs Return (chan 1445837)

Demi Moore was hospitalized the other day, and reports claim that she was doing whippets before having a breakdown. I haven't heard about whippets since 1987. She's really trying to turn back the clock. All she needs a Swatch.