Monthly Archives: September 2010
Answers, and The Good Enough Baby.
Thank you to all who participated in last week’s “Sam By The Numbers” quiz. Without further ado, the correct answers: x Only one person got the correct answer: 500. For the record, all answers were independently checked by a third … Continue reading
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Vacation, and Sam By The Numbers.
We’ll be taking a blogging vacation for the next week to coincide with an actual vacation. In lieu of packing tonight, however, we went through Sam’s charts and tallied up his number of feedings, wets and stools, as well as … Continue reading
Things To Love About Ohio: Dueling Mascots *UPDATED!*
If you missed it on Saturday, Ohio University went to Columbus and gave Ohio State a drubbing — in the mascot smackdown category. Ohio University promptly banned Brandon Hanning, the 19-year-old inside the Rufus Bobcat costume. It probably would’ve been … Continue reading
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Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart
x “Only connect,” E.M. Forster famously wrote, and the poor characters in Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart’s third novel, are incapable of doing just that. The novel is set sometime in the future, when all the HNWI (High … Continue reading
Things a New Mom Learns After Eight Weeks
In my first motherhood post, I wrote about all things Sam after one month. Roughly four weeks later, Sam is now eight weeks old; in one week, he will be two months. What have I been learning from the little … Continue reading
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Friday Recommends: Out Of Print Clothing
Wear the books that put you to sleep! x Book nerds and English majors celebrate! Out Of Print Clothing takes famous book covers — Moby Dick, Lolita, 1984, Invisible Man — and slaps them on comfy cotton/polyester blend t-shirts so … Continue reading
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Sam Meets Aunt Bevin
When Sam was born, his Aunt Bevin was, tragically, sick. Not tragically sick in the terminal sense, just sick, tragically speaking, in that she drove up from Nashville the day Sam was born and then had to avoid him for … Continue reading
We Have A Caption Contest Winner!
Congratulations, Justin Masterson! The latest in Anne Geddes’ “The Trouble with Meth” series. x We will now post this picture on Facebook with Justin’s caption, because this is what we said we would do. Consolation prizes to the other two … Continue reading
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Epidemic Proportions
If you happened to have Professor Lentz as an English professor when you were an undergrad, you too would have spit out your drink upon seeing this sentence on the home page of The Washington Post this evening: A combative … Continue reading
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