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June 02, 2006
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Today's true and amazing links begins with a contribution from Lauren. Her excitement over being the one to provide this link can only be rivaled by my excitement over its existence. What is it? Have your baby's picture drawn in the arms of Jesus. Wow. I am completely at a loss as to what to say about this. I've never been one to find virgin Mary shaped nightlights or Jesus candles amusing (ok, I did have a virgin Mary nightlight at one point, but it was only because I had three intense Christian roommates and I needed something to make me feel like I could joke about it), but this one not only amuses, but thrills. And the best part about it is that the URL is iwantthatstuff dot com! Wow. Seriously.
This is pretty old news by now, but I'm going to mention it anyway. I've talked before about my serious distaste for my graduate institution and my joy at their discomfort over dealing with Real Issues. They've gotten more news coverage in the Twin Cities this past year about how oppressively conservative they are than I was aware of them getting for the entirety of my life before this year. And now they were written up in the Strib because the senior who spoke at commencement offended people big time. Yea for St. Thomas. I'm so proud to have my masters degree from them.
Last week some of Lauren's coworkers were telling her that they didn't really get what hipster meant. Lauren and another coworker did their best to explain it to them, but they said they needed a visual aid. So I went to work. I found plenty of resources, but my favorite was Hipster Bingo. The only thing missing is calf-length black leggings under a skirt and slip-on checkered keds/vans/whatever. Awesome.
Shavuot, a Jewish holiday celebrating the day the Jews received the Torah, began tonight at sundown. I thought I would share a link to a commentary on Shavuot from Jewish Mosaic, a Jewish organization for sexual and gender diversity. I really like divrei Torah, but I don't often read them, which is kind of ridiculous if you think about the fact that I may be delivering them one day. This one is a little dry, but interesting, and it was written by the rabbi of the first Recon synagogue I ever heard about, the shul that introduce me to the entire movement. So I'm sharing.
I've mentioned before that I'm quite the fan of women's soccer. In fact, last year when Lauren was job searching and I had no real contribution to picking a location, I based my opinion partly on whether or not that city would have a WUSA team if the WUSA got started back up (as it claimed it was trying to). That didn't really pan out. However, I was recently informed that as of this year, Minnesota has a women's soccer team in the USL women's league! I even know someone on the team who went to my high school (although if she were to remember me, I'd die of shock). Yea for women's soccer!!
I'm not really a whimsical person. In fact, I'm a pretty ridiculously serious person when it comes to anything that 1) will last a long time or 2) will cost a lot of money. So if and when I ever redecorate a house I own, I will surely go with plain, simple wood floors. That doesn't prevent me, however, from wishing I was the kind of person who would install a puzzle floor. I'm so not that interesting, but I wish I was. Someone do this to their house and then invite me over, ok?
I'm constantly asking people for book recommendations. I'm the world's pickiest reader. And now I've discovered Literature Map, where you enter in an authors name and receive a mindmap looking picture of similar authors. It does seem to only have about half of my favorite authors in the database, but that's a start. I have no idea if it's going to yield good recommendations or not, but I'm certainly willing to give it a try. I looked up books by authors close to my favorite authors and wasn't all that impressed, but I did end up buying one book that I found that way, and it looks like a totally my style book. We'll see!
Apparently, a cd can help with morning sickness. I'm skeptical, and I'm also pretty sure that I'd rather find a CD that keeps giving birth from hurting, but I guess I'll take what I can find. I think for now I'll wait to hear whether or not this works and instead just buy the kids CD put out by one of the guys from Eddie From Ohio and the kids CD put out by the Nields. And I'll ignore the fact that we're not even going to start trying to get pregnant for another couple of years.
I don't know why this salt and pepper shaker amuses me so much, but it does.
By the way, I'm sorry that my last few links entries have been so heavy on the weird products and light on news. My favorite news source, allgaynews.com, seems to have shut down. And I've also been too lazy to pay attention to which headlines are being discussed at the message board I frequent. I'm a lazy news-reader. If you have a favorite headlines/news site (and I don't mean a traditional newspaper), feel free to share it with me. I hate feeling so out of the loop.
Posted to Links at June 2, 2006 12:09 AM
Oh, you are evil! EVIL! Now I need to spend more money on kids music by two of my very favorite artists. :p
You might like Sara Hinman's CD, Newborn. Really nice kids music, for liberals like us :)
Posted by: faeryguinevere at June 1, 2006 11:20 PM
I seriously LOVE that puzzle floor! I would definitely put that in my house. If I ever own a house. Which, in this stupid city, is about as likely as being struck by lightning. But still, yay for puzzle floors!
Posted by: Kathy at June 2, 2006 01:58 AM
Ooh, where do I find this CD? (Notice that I'm still in denial that I have no babies yet?)
And Kathy, you should move to Minneapolis and buy a house there. Because Minneapolis rocks. And because I want to know someone with the puzzle floor.
Posted by: Rebecca at June 3, 2006 07:22 AM
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