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Why You Should Never, Ever, Ever Get A Tattoo (but Having a Baby is Fine)

Originally posted on The Ugly Volvo:
I’m not super pro-tattoo or anti-tattoo.  I’ve debated getting one in the past but never that seriously.  But my mother is vehemently anti-tattoo.  Listed below are the reasons my mother has always given me for…

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Ev’rybody Wants To Be A Cat

Originally posted on Blathering About Nothing:
I don’t know how it has escaped me all these years, particularly when I studied Film Noir at TAFE and at university, but today I suddenly realised the connection between Film Noir and cats. It’s…

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Sochi Winter Games: Make Yourself Heard

Originally posted on University of York's English Pen Society:
To open the series of articles and letters of protest York PEN will be publishing during the week leading up to the Sochi Winter Olympics, PEN International’s Cathal Sheerin, the…

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Boycotts and the Sochi Olympics

Originally posted on The Sports Ethicist:
The Winter Olympics start February 6. I love the Olympics, both the summer and winter games offer excitement and inspiration. I learn about new sports and see athletes perform feats I never dreamed possible.…

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How Our Super Bowl Party Nearly Ended in Tragedy

Originally posted on johnny be bald:
I’m sitting at a friend’s house, at a Superbowl party.  The game is on but, like most people at Superbowl parties, I’m not really watching it.  Like most people, I come for the queso…

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It’s Alive! It’s Alive!

Originally posted on Odyssey of a Novice Writer:
I can think of few things more exciting or empowering than creating your own virtual universe out of the “furniture” inside your head. Writing stories, breathing life into your characters, well… it’s…

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“Why Are There No Blue Dogs?”

Originally posted on Little Bird's Dad:
Tuesday night, after the night shift nurses in the Hospice had dimmed the lights so everyone could settle in for the night, and after everyone left his side,  my Uncle Joe quietly passed away.…

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Fear in the bones and the right to the city, or: The Monster at the End of the Block

Originally posted on Adam Greenfield's Speedbird:
A piece I was commissioned to write earlier this year for the catalogue for Juha van ‘t Zelfde’s exhibition Dread: The Dizziness of Freedom, opening at De Hallen Harlem in the Netherlands on…

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The perfect postaday.

It was wonderful, but not as spectacular as I thought it would be. But, definitely it was on my bucket list. Have you ever read the perfect blog post? The perfect blog of the day? The perfect blog for the … Continue reading

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