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  • Why I Hate X Furniture

    The weekend after I moved here, I decided to “treat” myself by going out and buying a chair for my living room. I am not a big spender by any stretch of the imagination; in fact, I simply hate parting with anything larger than a $20 bill. But, because I had been such a big

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  • Thanks, Blogger!

    For eating all the flair on my blog today! This blog will be under (re)construction for the next several days.

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  • But I thought the finale (season or series…) of Veronica Mars was intense, heart-pounding, exciting, emotional, and, essentially, two good hours of television. Veronica’s episodes seem best when she is working to take down an institution AND working on getting revenge—both of which were heavily in play here. And how freaky was it to see

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  • Today it became official: The CW canceled Veronica Mars. Let me explain to you why this is stupid. First, Veronica Mars is one of the few shows on television to realistically grapple with questions of race, gender, socieconomic class, sexuality, and other forms of privilege and oppression in American culture. It does so both intelligently

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