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Friday, November 9th, 2007

Daddy wars?

So i found this quite interesting.
This is an essay written in Men’s Vogue by a man that went from being a WRITER for the New York Times to a  ’stay-at-home-dad’.
http://www.mensvogue.com/magazine/articles/2007/11/charlie_leduff?printable=true¤tPage=all
and if your interested, here is a sort of critique of this man and his lifestyle –titled “Daddy Wars”
http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/
–emily seybert

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Friday, November 9th, 2007

Frankenstein on Broadway

There’s a lengthy, rather negative review of Mel Brooks’s new broadway musical, “Young Frankenstein,” in today’s NYT, entitled, “Who Put the Trance in Transylvania?” I won’t paste below the whole review, but two things are worth noting: 1. the magical words in the title, i.e. a play on “trance” and “trans.” 2. The […]

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Friday, November 9th, 2007

Spelling Bees

Have you ever noticed that the standard euphemism for sex is “the birds and the bees.” Birds, as we have begun to see, have longstanding mythical links to writing technologies. All ancient mythical systems map out carefully worked-through correspondences between birds and human communication, written and oral. Homer always refers to words as […]

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