I swear I am going to get back on a normal links round-up schedule, friends and fronds. Some of these links are a bit, ahem, old. However! If you are on the hunt for an explanation of what the hell happened to Universal Fan Con or what is up with skin care marketing, I’ve got you covered. In thrilling news, Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon IS TOMORROW. Can you tell I’m excited? I am SO excited. I have an aunt coming into town, so I don’t know exactly how many hours I’ll end up being able to do, but I’m excited…
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My Name Is Roger Murdock: A Links Round-Up
Published 24 Feb 2017
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Gin Jenny
Another Friday, another links round-up. This week I had some super good chili and spoke with a sternness to my elected senator at a town hall. What’s your week been like? Regardless I have brought you this links round-up for your enjoyment, and I hope that your weekend is full of sunshine and baby kisses. There is an excellent kicker to this New York Times story about Neil Gaiman and his new book. Why yes I WOULD care for a Frankenstein story by Victor Lavalle that also pulls in the Black Lives Matter movement. THANK YOU FOR ASKING. Angelica Jade…
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Published 23 Jan 2015
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Gin Jenny
I like to read articles about the moral problem with football. But this one from Bill Morris at The Millions rubbed me the wrong way. He says a number of things that are super true and are real problems with football that need to be fixed; but he starts out with a thing about Penn State that seems to imply that football fans are uniquely terrible about accepting that prominent people in their field are capable of wrongdoing. Which, like, no. That is everywhere. People do not handle cognitive dissonance well. Moreover, the passage about Southern girls is the most…
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