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“Muah!”

by Wendy West

It seems effortless for others, as if they instinctively know how to do it. I think I thought it would get easier with age. But every time I lean in to greet someone, I’m caught in a flailing vagueness of kissing, air kissing, and hugging. I’ve either forgotten – or I’ve never learned – how [...]

I checked yes

by Pandora Brewer

I took my first personality test in college. I was a sophomore and was in the process of declaring a Secondary Education major. As part of the placement application, students were asked to take a well-known standardized assessment. This was presumably to eliminate those unsuited to work with children. I remember pages and pages of convoluted [...]

Driving with the enemy

by Annie Walker

( Politics and Sounds )

This post was written to prior Don Imus’s unfortunate and racist comments about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team. It seems ironic that he came up with such a good example of what I wrote the essay to talk about.
I am not quite sure when it happened, but sometime in the last ten years, [...]

The War on Easter

by Literacy H. Dogfight

( Conflict and Death and Food and Life and Religion )

Warning: The following post is an expletive-laced, un-Christian, anti-Easter tirade that may strike some sensitive readers as blasphemous and mean. Read at your own risk.
Hey yo, f*ck Easter! I freakin’ hate Easter. It’s the worst sort of “holiday” ever created. I’ve never liked it, never enjoyed it, and never will. I [...]

A few thoughts on Sol LeWitt

by Dave Barber

( Art )

The great Sol LeWitt died on Sunday. He might be best known as a sculptor, but like many people I most admire his “Wall Drawings,” a series that he started in 1968 and continued, as far as I know, to the end of his life.
The wall drawings are drawings done directly on walls, which raises [...]