pretending

Recently I saw a very dear friend two times before she would move. At the first visit we pretended she was not packing while we talked. She was not putting her kitchen into boxes while we drank coffee. While I gazed at her new baby boy, she was not five days from leaving. While we lamented our inability to attend Blogher (*sniff*), I was not thinking that soon I’d be unable to [...]

Go ahead and say, if you like, that Hillary Clinton retains a serious chance of winning the Democratic nomination. If you say this, however, you must describe a set of circumstances whereby this could happen.read more | digg story

Hey, Nick Cokas. Guess what? You can go back to laying on the couch and doing nothing. No need for you to keep pretending to search for a job that you had never wanted in the first place. Your new wife, got a job. It only pays $250,000 a year before taxes, agency commissions, lawyer [...]

I will just assume that Paris has just discovered The Beatles White Album on her iPod, and this is the result. TMZ says, He’s starred in tons of films and TV shows including “My Name is Earl” and “Pirates of the Caribbean.” According to IMDB, Maxie’s latest projects are all in “post production” so clearly he has enough free time to whore it up for Paris.

once in a while, i imagine what it would be like to flap my arms and fly like a bird but then i always get to the bowel movement part and my arms stop flapping and i fall to the ground in a constipated heap.

Today I went in to work. This is one of the curses of teaching -- I actually care (a great deal) about my kids and what they're doing/thinking/learning. Therefore, even when my head is pounding and my lymph nodes are swollen, I can't spend too many days sitting at home not knowing what's happening at school.I just wanted to check in with them, make sure they had gotten everything they needed out of last week, make sure they were ready for what's coming next, etc.Well, we got into a discussion about Native American cultures. The basic idea I wanted them to get out of the reading was the image of time as a cycle -- everything repeats, everything decays and is renewed.In an attempt to juxtapose that with our Western Civ concept that time is linear -- a constant parade towards *insert your

I wonder if I'm the only one who occasionally pretends to talk on a cell phone in public to escape a sense of anxiety, but I bet I'm not. Sometimes when I stand or walk alone in a public space I find myself feeling a little too self-conscious for my own comfort. It might happen when I am by myself while lots of people around me are talking as couples or in small groups. Or it might occur when

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So I read this post on GrumpyCoder blog that defines Pink SEO as pretending to be a girl to get links and to get stumbled and so on. I don’t really think that is what Pink SEO is about, personally. Pink SEO is great for blogs because it is about social networking, but I believe it is practiced just as frequently by men as by women. Pretending to be a woman to get stumbled is sort of creepy. I like this definition of Pink SEO better personally. Pink SEO is something that is practiced by both men and women, and it is perfect especially for bloggers and Pink SEO is all about social networking. Not being a girl. Look at Technorati Boy. :P I would call the pretending to be a girl more some other kind of SEO, like red or some other sexy colour for the prostituting pictures of women? Is that going too far Why it is not okay to pretend you are a girl: I already mentioned the creepy factor. Women are more than the sum of their parts. Have enough respect for women not to pimp pictures of

Have you ever had someone that you actually dislike very much, but due to some "reason(s)", you have to pretend to like the person and get along with him/her? Well, sadly, though I hate this kinda thing, I'm doing it quite often lately. It's sad how this world functions isn't it? Though you really can't stand the sight of the person or things he/she has to say, but due to the "circumstances", you have no choice but to tolerate and pretend that you "understand" or even "agree". Pathetic. Reality is such a pain. Advertisement: Continue reading...

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Faithful readers of this blog know what a hero and inspiration Jim Henson continues to be to me (I lobbied unsuccessfully for each of my kids to have "Henson" as a middle name. Hmpf.) Anyway, I want to share some marvelous wild Henson geniusness I've come across recently: Jim Henson video collection at the University of Maryland . I am especially excited about watching the "Experimental Films", some of which I have read about many times but never thought I'd get to actually see. The Cube. Henson's wild film about a man trapped in a cube that others can enter and leave, but he has to figure out how to get out himself. Thanks to my super-wonderful brother, I now have my own copy of this. You can actually download it, it's in the public domain now. Or just watch it. (About an hour long.) Timepiece. The Oscar-nominated short. Watch Jim Henson paint an elephant lavender, among other things. (About 9 minutes.) Wilkins Coffee commercials. We've said "A house just isn't a home w

Faithful readers of this blog know what a hero and inspiration Jim Henson continues to be to me (I lobbied unsuccessfully for each of my kids to have "Henson" as a middle name. Hmpf.) Anyway, I want to share some marvelous wild Henson geniusness I've come across recently: Jim Henson video collection at the University of Maryland . I am especially excited about watching the "Experimental Films", some of which I have read about many times but never thought I'd get to actually see. The Cube. Henson's wild film about a man trapped in a cube that others can enter and leave, but he has to figure out how to get out himself. Thanks to my super-wonderful brother, I now have my own copy of this. You can actually download it, it's in the public domain now. Or just watch it. (About an hour long.) Timepiece. The Oscar-nominated short. Watch Jim Henson paint an elephant lavender, among other things. (About 9 minutes.) Wilkins Coffee commercials. We've said "A house just isn't a home w