April 2010
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Is it National Make-Out-With-Your-Food-In-Public...
Close your mouths, friends. I don’t need to see the digestion of your Flamin Hot Cheetos. Your red-stained fingernails are evidence enough. Please and thank you.
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I'm sorry, slam poetry, but you and I will never...
I find you contrived and self-indulgent. It’s nothing personal, I respect you a lot, I’m just not that into you.
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"The Hortlak" by Kelly Link: An Excerpt
The man walked up and stood in front of the counter. Batu couldn’t take his eyes off the trench coat. It was like the guy was wearing an electric fan strapped to his chest, under the trench coat, and the fan was blowing things around underneath. You could hear the fan buzzing. It made sense, Batu had thought: this guy had his own air-conditioning unit under there. Pretty neat, although...
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“He hated when Batu talked about Charley, except that he loved hearing her name.”
– Eric from “The Hortlak” by Kelly Link
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“One day we see her, and it’s too much. She is so beautiful on this day,...”
– Excerpt from “Appleless” by Aimee Bender…I just suggested this story to my students. It’s beautifully written.
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“The trouble with my generation is that we all think we’re fucking geniuses....”
– Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down (via andreantoinette)
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Watch(via invisiblechildren)
Is there a way to get Chimamanda to speak at my fundraising show? Just putting it out there, universe.
New Big Boy URL
Hey friends,
Just lettin’ you know that I changed my URL from “gabrielgrowingup.tumblr.com” to “gabrielthibodeau.tumblr.com” …thought it was the right time to have a grown-up url. That doesn’t mean that I’m done growing up (that will never happen) but figured it was a good idea if I’m going to eventually pursue a legit writing/publishing...
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Me: I've had three bowls of cereal today.
Lo: The healthy kind or unhealthy kind?
Me: Two healthy, one unhealthy.
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Film Shoot
I may have scarred impressionable young children by adlibbing a line during a scene. After the take, one of the kids asked his mom, “What’s a crazy whore?” And, after I apologized emphatically, his Dad said, “Well, he has to learn about women sooner or later.” Awesome.
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“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when...”
– Oscar Wilde (via desireandanarchy)
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A mud pie for Matt de la Pena.
I’ve been invited to participate in a Master Class with novelist Matt de la Pena through Grossmont College. Only a handful of students are attending and I’m really excited to be involved. Matt actually asked for samples of our writing and is going to lead the workshop based on our submitted pieces. This is VERY rare. Visiting authors rarely ask to see student work, so I’m...
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Watchandreantoinette:
it was really that bad.
mrjonsmith:
The Double Down By Jon Smith
On April 12th, 2010, a few friends and I decided to try KFC’s new chicken sandwich called “The Double Down”. This sandwich uses no bread, substituting two pieces of fried chicken as the bun.
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Hulu's Best of Tina Fey Collection →
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WatchRachael Harris. Yes, please.
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WatchKayla’s going to make fun of me for posting something with Megan Fox in it…but I don’t care. I work in education, so I feel this video is justified.
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Watch“Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis.” Just watched seven of these videos. Priceless. Kayla, you must watch all of these!
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Trick Naps
Have you ever, after almost dozing off multiple times while studying, decided to give in to the temptation and lay down for a power nap and, once getting to bed, been suddenly unable to fall asleep? That. Just. Happened.
