Archive for April 18th, 2007

My Boyfriend: “I’m hungry.”
Friend: “Me too.”
My Boyfriend: “Let’s get food.”
Me: “It’s raining.”
My Boyfriend: “I shall make the rain my bitch, and it will make me a sandwich. Two birds, one stone.”
My Friend: “…Yeah I was just going to use an umbrella.”


In the flurry of media content surrounding the shootings, there’s always room for items that surprise no one.


It’s the Information Age (…I cringed too); we have the ability to discover all sorts of minutiae on any number of newsworthy items.  Why, then, do the recent events at VA Tech – and the now-obligatory reaction to ferret out whatever details we can – make me uneasy?
Maybe it’s because of the lingering fear that [...]