Life and work and a phenominally non-functioning headspace have all conspired to make it very hard for me to post today. And so, unless I have a brain wave later, I’ll just leave you with these, some of my favorite moments by Eddie Izzard – the single.funniest.person.alive.on.earth. (Most of the time, people on the intertubez [...]
All posts for the month July, 2009
Good stuff.
Posted by emilylhauser on July 31, 2009
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Holy land/fetid water.
I often say that life in the 21st century is better, is most measurable ways, than it has ever been — at least for the kind of people who have regular access to the internet and are likely to read a blog. We live longer, healthier lives, have begun to understand and unpack our various [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on July 30, 2009
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Cracking me up.
I didn’t know that this was a WordPress feature before I started blogging, but it turns out that WordPress tells you what search terms led people to your blog (if they were led by a search engine!). Most of these, so far, have been pretty unsuprising, like my name, or “in my head,” but a [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on July 29, 2009
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/cracking-me-up/
Threat level: pink.
My daughter turned 6 last week, and I’ve found myself thinking about the following essay, written just after she turned 4, finally published in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune the day before she turned 5 (ah, the joys of freelancing!). I suspect that some do not see political ramifications in the fantasies we offer our daughters (and [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on July 29, 2009
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/threat-level-pink/
Good stuff – bucking the trend edition.
Every website I have visited today (with the exception of the New York Times) has posted a truly brilliant video of William Shatner cracking on Sarah Palin, merely by reading her own words — to the beat of a bongo. Brilliant I say! (Update: NBC has taken the clip off of YouTube — but Hulu [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on July 28, 2009
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/good-stuff-bucking-the-trend-edition/
Of laws, and the need for.
Re: the recent discovery that workers at a south suburban Chicago cemetery had dug up bodies and re-sold the graves, Chicago’s public radio station, WBEZ, just informed me that “Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes and the head of the national Funeral Consumers Alliance told [US House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection] members that cemetery [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on July 28, 2009
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/of-laws-and-the-need-for/
Follow up to “Words II” – a request.
Hey, if you’re represented by Republicans, in either house, would you please drop them a note and ask that they take issue with the birther nonsense? Here’s a place to start: http://www.house.gov/ and http://www.senate.gov/ Allowing such lies to go unchallenged and/or slyly winking at them speaks ill of this country and the Republican party, and [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on July 27, 2009
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/follow-up-to-words-ii-a-request/
Words II – the Obama edition.
About 14 years ago, on a chilly fall day, I was somewhere in Chicago, counting the days til my wedding. My fiance and I lived in Israel, but in deference to my American family, had planned our ceremony for my mother’s living room. I was having a knock-around-the-city day, sorry to miss the big peace [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on July 27, 2009
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/words-ii-the-obama-edition/
Q/A – Jez edition.
Ok, not so much an entire “edition,” per se, as an answer to a single question asked by many people! How do I get on that Jez board that I’ve heard so much about? – Anyone interested in the Jezebel message board known affectionately as “The Basement,” can email dissolver: dissolver (at) gmail (dot) com. [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on July 27, 2009
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/qa-jez-edition/
Programming.
No updates on Shabbat, probably none on Sunday, have a great weekend!
Posted by emilylhauser on July 24, 2009
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