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Laundry: The Smug Soul-Crusher

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Sara Chamberlin

There is something downright soul-crushing about laundry. Everything about it makes me feel like a giant, miserable failure at life.

Michelle, Michael and a silly fantasy

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Bill Michalek

Thoughts on a Winter Olympic without Michelle Kwan

Billy and Me – My Generation Gap with myself

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Bill Michalek

When I was thirteen, the destined-for-shlock-immortality movie Billy Jack premiered in my home town of Torrance. My friend Steve and I walked to the “fifty-cent-movies” on Crenshaw and PCH to see it.

Child-eyes

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Colleen Newport

I spent my entire first week of freshman year smelling like beef. My older brother stuck a beef bouillon cube in the shower-head that morning.

Shush!

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Sara Chamberlin

Thanks a ton for ruining my afternoon, dirtbags. All I wanted was to sit here quietly and enjoy a good movie.

Assimilation

Posted on December 13, 2009 by Emily Blake

Is this the first step? Am I becoming one of them?

An Ode to Northern California

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Alex Halpern

I live in Northern California for a lot of reasons. One of them is the weather and that’s why this week has been such a rough surprise, what with temperatures in the thirties every night, forcing me to wear closed-toed shoes and a jacket over my sweatshirt.

Last Journal Entry

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Trent Strong

The lost journal of a distant individual.

Holiday Travel Suck Fest

Posted on December 6, 2009 by Sara Chamberlin

No experience is more of an epic cluster fuck than holiday travel. Every part of the process is uncomfortable, painfully slow or infuriating. Usually all three.

Questions for These Times

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Norene Griffin

Why did this happen to him?

Why did it happen to me?

Did he deserve it?

Did I deserve it?