Posted by: thekickable on: 31 October 2009
Recently, I had to do an oral history project for one of my classes. Thereafter, I decided to interview my parents about basically everything I could imagine. This idea found me researching significant events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to formulate questions. In the midst of doing this, I found myself realizing why my [...]
Posted by: thekickable on: 24 October 2009
Kleenex has launched a new website entitled “Get Mommed,” where you can choose a mom to give you “extra care” this cold and flu season. You have your choices of race, ethnicities, socio-economic statuses . . . Are you gagging yet? ‘Cause I am.
I’m sorry, Kleenex, but I already have a mom, and I don’t [...]
Posted by: thekickable on: 25 September 2009
With all of this classwork on genealogy and researching ordinary people, last night, I started researching the family of my surname. My family has never been able to get past the year 1800 because this guy (aka, my four-greats-grandfather) didn’t claim his parents or something. Oddness. Anyway, I got to him and I typed his name into a [...]
Posted by: thekickable on: 9 September 2009
I’m taking this class over furniture and material culture, etc, in 19th century Britain.
And the thing is, I think I’ve understood math classes better. (Recall that I’m a historian, so math and I aren’t on speaking terms.) We talk about junk–superficial, materialistic junk–and that’s all it is to me: junk.
While the book and the professor and the other [...]
Posted by: thekickable on: 7 September 2009
Another great use for Big Brother’s newspaper.
Posted by: thekickable on: 6 September 2009
After having written our mother to tattle inform her what sort of people Big Brother (as he shall be known from now on) has apparently befriended, she wrote me back to tell me to “Just quit reading his stupid editorials. I scan them to see what they’re about then quit reading. They’re not worth it.”
If [...]
Posted by: thekickable on: 5 September 2009
Is it really an episode of the Twilight Zone?
Having googled part of my brother’s editorial, I now have evidence that, at the very least, he has been frequenting websites associated with a Certain Secret Hate Group. Not only did these websites have the exact same questions, but they were written the [...]
Posted by: thekickable on: 5 September 2009
By request, I am typing up my brother’s most recent editorial, which I replied to in this entry. I would like to reiterate here that I emphatically do not agree with anything he says, and we don’t get along. Yesterday was my birthday and he didn’t even wish me a happy birthday, let alone send me [...]
Posted by: thekickable on: 31 August 2009
Today, I read the editorial of a small-town newspaper. This time, the editor managed todeny the Holocaust, support white supremacy, make a racist statement towards Obama, make another general racist statement, bash the GLBT community, mock lesbians in specific a second time, make an anti-Semitic comment, and label television, radio, and teen magazines as evil.
Wow. Where [...]
Posted by: thekickable on: 25 August 2009
This is my brother–no, not the religious right-wing jerk I frequently refute in this forum. This is my younger-older brother, Sean, Christmas 1981. Strange that that will have been thirty years ago in a few years. I don’t talk about Sean much. What can I say, my oldest brother generates a lot of attention towards [...]
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