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9 Shocking Moments of 2009

ByRachel December 5, 2009 2 Comments
As 2009 draws to a close, most of us look back on the year's events with fondness. Or grimaces, depending on which event you're thinking of. This was a year of "shocker" moments--every couple of months, it seemed, we were blindsided by some unexpected news story. Some made us sniffle, some made us angry. Some were so strange that we simply blinked at our televisions for a few seconds, then turned...

Tuesdays With Tuesday–Week 3

ByRachel December 4, 2009 1 Comment
Welcome to Tuesdays with Tuesday. For last week's installment, go here. Tuesday So, my post is a couple of days late. Things happened this week--things I didn't really want to talk about right away. But now events are escalating, and I have to write it all down to try and make sense of it. On Monday, a detective visited our office. Yes, you heard right. An honest-to-goodness chain-smoking modern...

Thwarted Desires

ByRachel November 28, 2009 3 Comments
When director Steven Spielberg first watched the recent movie hit "Paranormal Activity" (at that time just a low-budget indie film), he found it successfully scary and wrought with frightening tension. He had only one complaint; change the ending. Though the film succeeded in scripting, acting, tension and creativity, the ending alone could have been enough to sink it. Why? Because the original...

Tuesdays with Tuesday–Week 2

ByRachel November 24, 2009 2 Comments
Welcome to the second installment of "Tuesdays with Tuesday," where our literary friend Tuesday Jones expounds upon the virtues and disillusionment of post-grad life. For last week's installment, go here. Tuesday So after last week's laundry list of every grotesquely dull thing that happened to me, I had serious doubts about continuing this series of posts. But, in an odd twist of events,...