November 28, 2012
We’ve all heard the complaint that Thanksgiving is the invisible major holiday. Marketing for Christmas begins the day after Halloween, or even earlier in some stores, and some radio stations are already playing full-time Christmas music. Personally, it’s getting a little old seeing people post on Facebook, “I heard ‘Jingle Bell Rock’ on the radio [...]
And we thought our troubles would be over when the election was done. Sure, we might not agree with everything whoever is elected stands for, but at least the Facebook catfights will calm down, right? I hadn’t yet joined Facebook during the last presidential election, so I was a little unprepared for the onslaught of [...]
Continue reading …Those of you who aren’t creative writing majors, I know how you see us. I know. It’s OK. I know when you think “creative writing major,” you think of people who make the characters of “The Big Bang Theory” look like social rock stars. You know who I mean. The frizzy-haired girl in the corner [...]
Continue reading …Next month, Disney’s newest princess will make her TV debut. Sofia the First is a cartoon for children that will air on the Disney Channel and Disney Junior, according to the original announcement in The New York Times. Sofia, played by Modern Family‘s Ariel Winter, is a little girl who lucks into the princess gig [...]
Continue reading …We all know the college and university students who endlessly bemoan the hardships of student life: the overwhelming debt and/or bills, the accompanying necessity of working long hours in frequently thankless jobs, the steady diet of ramen, the grueling hours of homework for classes they already give enough of their time to, boring or unfair professors, the near-impossible [...]
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