October 2009

Friday Comic and Friday Links!

October 29, 2009

It’s baby fever time in the family! Links: Pictures of the last barber of Sofia, Bulgaria Held by the Taliban, a very touching five-part series I can’t wait to see this movie, Slackistan Traveling around Lake Baikal with beautiful pics Soros says, it’s time to rethink economics Why men should give women flowers Real live pictures from Kabul! Donate your wedding dress for tax benefit I have fallen in love with this blog Where are all the lady bloggers? Here’s ...

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Asher Kaufman on the Village of Ghajr at the Middle East Institute

October 28, 2009

One of the things I love most about working in Washington, D.C., is the enormous amount of think tank lectures (for free!) constantly going on in the District, many only a couple blocks away from where I work.  I am extremely, extremely lucky.  That’s why I was so excited to go for the first time to the Middle East Institute a couple days ago for lunch to hear Asher Kaufman speak about the village of Ghajr (taken with my stalkerphone ...

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Guest Post: Halloween and Pippi Longstocking…and Jews

October 27, 2009

My friend Jane Charney bails me out again with a thought-provoking post about Halloween costumes: For two years in a row, on Oct. 31, I’ve stuck pipe-cleaners into my braids, painted some exaggerated freckles on my face and put on two completely mismatched knee-high socks. I’ve impersonated my favorite children’s literature role model – Pippi Longstocking. And I’m not going to do it again this year. In fact, Halloween is this week, and I barely have an idea of what ...

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Midnight Nutella: A Halloween Post

October 27, 2009

I am doing a lot of warming up for writing a novel beginning on Sunday.  This means annoying you with my attempts at literature.  Here is my latest, a Halloween poem in the style of Edgar Allen Poe on crack. From Pingu1963 on Flickr Midnight Nutella Oh, what horror!  Oh, what fright! Has arisen from the dead- What disturbs me on this night, What ghoul phantom rears its head? On the eve of Halloween, When all good souls are asleep- ...

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Author Interview: Hannah Friedman

October 26, 2009

Note: This book graciously provided to me by Hannah Friedman. I spent approximately 45% of high school in my room and crying because I was weird/no one “got” me/had self-esteem issues/was working on homework until 2 am/had a Nutella emergency. Hannah Friedman’s high school experiences were even worse, mainly because she had a monkey instead of a sister, but also because she had the additional pressure of a private school.   So much worse, in fact, that she wrote a book ...

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