Rachel L.

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Plinky prompt leads to reflections on pleasurably absurd spectacles

Rachel L. posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 6:32 pm
The Olympics.Now we all know I kind of hate sports. But the Olympic Games are the home of some of the first world's most ridiculous visuals, and for that it is to be commended. Take, for instance:...
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CD's of the day : Electro Boys From Russia

Rachel L. posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 3:27 pm
I wanted to share a selection of electro-goth videos with you today, but the ones I had in mind are all unembeddable/nonexistent*. So let's just go with the boring old list format.Gebrauche Musik ...
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my love affair with ads is over. forget it. the...

Rachel L. posted an article on - Nov 14, 2009, 12:04 am
my love affair with ads is over. forget it. the damn things are criminal, carcinogenic and a noise violation. do i look like i'm joking? i can't even hit the shift key, that's how serious ...
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Photoshop Featurette : What?

Rachel L. posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 4:58 pm
i'm undertaking a study of bad penmanship and its effects on productivity. or vice versa.
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Incredible Things You Want To Tweet About But Can't

Rachel L. posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 3:50 pm
Margaret Cho wouldn't hesitate, but many of us would.*how amazingly hot** your twitterfriend looks in dragthe shockingly horrible thing your twitterfriend just did to youwhat you're buying eve...
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"Go Forth"

Rachel L. posted an article on - Nov 9, 2009, 12:56 pm
I've been watching too much TV lately, that's probably why I haven't blogged in ages.Speaking of TV, I want to say I've been really confused by my feelings about those new Levi's a...
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Halloween. Oh Hell Yeah.

Rachel L. posted an article on - Nov 1, 2009, 1:53 am
Tonight, I saw the legs of some of the sexiest men in town, maybe the world.Oh my poor old maiden-aunt ticker. I lost years off my life. And I only had one beer.Hope you all had fun, too.
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Home, No Longer Ill

Rachel L. posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 5:26 pm
wow.hope you enjoyed that little mini-series from the family trip. it was a pretty good trip, really, but i always get, well, angsty, considering that family vacations are all about never being alone ...
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Travel Angst, Day Four : Weddings

Rachel L. posted an article on - Oct 24, 2009, 11:57 pm
...just when you think it's all aboutuncomfortable shoes,pretending to pray,romantic despair, andholding in your farts,comes that time at every good wedding party when the dj puts on Jump Around b...
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Travel Angst, Day Three : How Do Older People See Me???

Rachel L. posted an article on - Oct 23, 2009, 1:31 pm
I am such a caricature"are you getting smarteror having more fun?"
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Travel Angst, Day Two : Beer, or health?

Rachel L. posted an article on - Oct 22, 2009, 11:28 pm
What am I going to do on a family vacation if I'm nervous about depressing my immune system?Tea has already taken over parts of my life once dedicated to late-night weight gain. Now it's makin...
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Travel Angst, Day One : Missing So Much

Rachel L. posted an article on - Oct 21, 2009, 11:18 pm
just a thought, a draft toward a better self, one more small doomed theory. i'm fine, don't worry. oh look, Mythbusters is on.Wednesday, October 21, 200911:13 PMI feel ridiculously alienated. ...
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Tedium Tips #5 : Care Of Cell 44

Rachel L. posted an article on - Oct 20, 2009, 1:16 am
Let's Pretend. again.pretend you just got RELEASED FROM DEATH ROW.By the way, if you're NOT from one of the following countries-- AfghanistanAntigua and BarbudaBaham...
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Tedium Tips #4 : Adventures of Demetri Martin:Superhero!

Rachel L. posted an article on - Oct 17, 2009, 3:44 pm
The scenarios are endless! wizard duel with PG Wodehouse!(not pictured)repairing the ozone layer!complex maths!Yes, Demetri Martin:Superhero will bring good cheer and a go-getter attitude to any long...
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Tedium Tips #3 : Let Your Hormones Do The Talking

Rachel L. posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 11:04 pm
For more fun times on a boring workday, try blushing extravagantly during a brief interaction with a charming handsome man (or woman; but, in my case, man. Sorry, ladies).I'm so self-conscious an...
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Vinyl Wishlist pt. 1

Rachel L. posted an article on - Oct 14, 2009, 3:27 pm
I've got something ever so slightly on the deluxe side in the works for this blog but it involves scanning. Bleh. So I'm a bit behind but I haven't forgotten you.For now I'll share a f...
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Something you don't see every day:

Rachel L. posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 1:26 am
a Classical Music CD with a PARENTAL ADVISORY STICKER. no joke. it really has the sticker. "The Art Of The Bawdy Song"byThe Baltimore Consort & The Merry CompanionsReally, what more can I say? This is...
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Book Of The Day (one last post, then megadoses of vitamin C... i see sick people.)

Rachel L. posted an article on - Oct 6, 2009, 12:18 am
Literally, the Best Language Book Ever: Annoying Words and Abused Phrases You Should Never Use Again by Paul YeagerHaha. I considered checking this out because I spent probably a good 2 minutes standi...
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guess my motherfuckin mood

Rachel L. posted an article on - Oct 5, 2009, 2:25 pm
To A Fat Lady Seen From The Trainby Frances CornfordO why do you walk through the fields in gloves, Missing so much and so much?O fat white woman whom nobody loves,Why do you walk through the fields...
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Tedium Tips #2: Speculative Pan-Universal Post-History

Rachel L. posted an article on - Oct 4, 2009, 9:08 pm
In further optimism, today I was thinking along the lines of:Given adequate time(and surely eternity/infinity could be considered adequate)eventually human music, for example, will go through periods ...
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Halloween Pun

Rachel L. posted an article on - Oct 3, 2009, 5:32 pm
I'm going as an anaesthetist this year.I figure this costume will consist of the following:medical scrubs/labcoatand this pin:get it?
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Wolf Parade et al

Rachel L. posted an article on - Sep 28, 2009, 2:15 am
I've been unaccountably annoyed by the trend of vocalists being in too many bands.The trouble with a singer who has a really distinctive style, which he/she uses on many different projects, is tha...
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Sharing with you a poem, written by a poet, about poetry

Rachel L. posted an article on - Sep 26, 2009, 6:46 pm
lest i be accused that my purpose has been blunted...And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Nameby John AshberryYou can’t say it that way any more.Bothered about beauty you have toCome out into the open, int...
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The question is not 'Whether', it's 'How'.

Rachel L. posted an article on - Sep 26, 2009, 6:12 pm
SEX I can't tell which is the demon and which is the angel.
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My Dream Economist?

Rachel L. posted an article on - Sep 23, 2009, 6:13 pm
I discovered today that when you google Improbable Enjoyment, this man appears*:(image via wikimedia commons)John Kenneth Galbraith...well, "appears" in the sense of "is the primary search result," as...
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Tedium Tips #1 : Crime Noir Voice-Overs in your head.

Rachel L. posted an article on - Sep 21, 2009, 9:41 pm
How to pass a weary hour in a job you sometimes hate: translate all your thoughts and actions into a 3rd person narrative. Bonus Points if you can construct a compelling plot/character arc by the end ...
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Green Wing

Rachel L. posted an article on - Sep 17, 2009, 8:21 pm
I finished watching the BBC series Green Wing last night/early this morning.I think I am going to have to pass through all the stages of grief now that it's over. I literally just do not know what...
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Vinyl: An embarrassing thing to talk about.

Rachel L. posted an article on - Sep 16, 2009, 11:53 pm
Noticed a slight uptick in page views due to that McGregor excoriation. Shame that credible celebrity gossip is not my emphasis. Normally my opinions go blissfully unheard. But this is who I am.So any...
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The Gentrification Of Ewan McGregor

Rachel L. posted an article on - Sep 15, 2009, 4:32 pm
The other night I had adult swim on in the background when, unforgivably, they put on that horrible Clone Wars animated series. I mean I assume it was horrible since the movies have been horrible; in ...
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Positive Action : the ACLU

Rachel L. posted an article on - Sep 12, 2009, 1:12 pm
I volunteered with my local ACLU today.I like this form of desperation, I do. Normally I would never, ever, help anybody or do anything for free so this is a big step for me. But I've realized thi...
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Learning How To Freelance, Fire One : Miss.

Rachel L. posted an article on - Sep 10, 2009, 6:32 pm
Too Lazy to Work Too Nervous to Steal: How to Have a Great Life As a Freelance Writer by John ClausenThis book is far too anecdotal to be practical for my purposes.Maybe I'm spoiled by the clarity...
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moving forward

Rachel L. posted an article on - Sep 9, 2009, 4:35 pm
yep, tried adsense and surprise surprise, i hate it.i must have messed up the HTML cause it only looks SUPER-OBNOXIOUS on my page. anyone know how to fix it?i guess maybe this problem will go away in ...
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In 2109, my personal robot attendant will make phone calls

Rachel L. posted an article on - Sep 8, 2009, 7:09 pm
make phone calls i take twenty times longer to complete a task than the average person, if that task involves making a phone call.
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Question: Where do you want to go on vacation? Answer: Europe

Rachel L. posted an article on - Sep 8, 2009, 7:09 pm
Specifically Britain. I want to be the girl who ran away and joined the English.Or, in some respects, went back to the English. Though technically I suppose I'd have to chop myself up and reside s...
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It's official

Rachel L. posted an article on - Sep 8, 2009, 6:41 pm
I need to monetize this blog. at least until I have an actual career, I figure my job is to milk EVERY POSSIBLE TRICKLE of income so that I can one day move out of my parents' house and still keep...
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The possibilities...!

Rachel L. posted an article on - Sep 5, 2009, 3:32 pm
Has anyone yet made a movie about the World's Columbian Exposition? If not, why not?See also: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larso...
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The Great Ones

Rachel L. posted an article on - Sep 4, 2009, 1:22 pm
What with the recent/upcoming release of two major works by Dave Eggers (What Is The What, and the film Where The Wild Things Are which is raising the pulses of my collective generation every time we ...
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p.s.

Rachel L. posted an article on - Sep 4, 2009, 12:04 am
I figure I will now unveil Improbable Enjoyments' brand-new annex: Rachel's Repository Of Prompt Poetrywhich is where the poetry will go.so far there hasn't been a whole lot of it but yest...
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Dancing With Cats. Brilliant!

Rachel L. posted an article on - Sep 3, 2009, 11:32 pm
Dancing With Cats: From the Creators of the International Best Seller Why Cats Paint by Burton Silverbarring some extraordinarily sad circumstances, simply put, this book cannot fail to cheer you up.c...
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Inglourious Basterds : a flawed but not-that-bad project

Rachel L. posted an article on - Aug 29, 2009, 1:30 pm
Here's my two million cents on Inglourious Basterds (I say this because I can never, ever, keep these filmic opinions short).You know what? At the end as I was leaving the theatre I had this stran...
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Journals: not just for Lewis & Clark / teenage girls ANYMORE!

Rachel L. posted an article on - Aug 29, 2009, 1:17 pm
Journals by Kurt CobainMy rating: 5 of 5 starsthis book. is REALLY. REALLY. FASCINATING. who knew?It helps if you're also a struggling artist/musician, or just someone who keeps a tortured account...
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"We will destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind"

Rachel L. posted an article on - Aug 27, 2009, 8:33 pm
Russian Futurism. What is it? What does it mean to me?Partly it means that, in spite of the fact that my parking permit recently expired, forcing me to ride a bike or spend most of my wages on parking...
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the joy of a good career assessment quiz

Rachel L. posted an article on - Aug 26, 2009, 12:20 am
I have decided that tomorrow will be the start of a whole new, less-desperate, less-stubborn life.,'*.;**!insert fairy dust here!**;.*',I think part of the breakthrough was finally finding som...
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New Feature ! self-calming song played on endless loop in my head throughout workday...

Rachel L. posted an article on - Aug 25, 2009, 12:00 am
...OF THE DAY!Lykke Li - Time Flies(I wish)
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Standing Up For Hamlet... and Jim Carrey.

Rachel L. posted an article on - Aug 23, 2009, 11:54 pm
The first time I saw Ethan Hawke's Hamlet* I thought it was fairly mediocre (one has to say 'fairly mediocre' as it just won't do to be too emphatic about mediocrity). The acting was n...
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Happiness

Rachel L. posted an article on - Aug 23, 2009, 1:31 pm
There's a movie called Happiness. From the start a wise person will be unnerved by such a title.I was just listening to Stephen Fry's latest audioboo about happiness - the happiness to be foun...
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Dig This

Rachel L. posted an article on - Aug 23, 2009, 1:05 pm
the last track I 'loved' on last.fm was this hotness:School of Seven Bells - "Half Asleep"
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Ugh.

Rachel L. posted an article on - Aug 17, 2009, 8:38 pm
Just applied for financial aid so's I can get some kind of useful schoolings. I hate filling out forms.Now I want nothing more than to be drinking beer and relaxing with Nora the cat.Thanks to thi...
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Scenesters and Spinsters at the end of time

Rachel L. posted an article on - Aug 16, 2009, 6:49 pm
Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes-Punk to Indie and Everything in Between by Leslie SimonFor those of us hoping to understand 21st century music and its movements/la...
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quick clip for ye

Rachel L. posted an article on - Aug 15, 2009, 1:20 pm
It's Trey Parker and Matt Stone, but no violence and no arses!?Thanks to Stephen Fry on twitter for this gentle bit of truth.
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