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Everything2 Cool Archive http://everything2.com/?node=Cool%20Archive%20Atom%20Feed 2009-12-23T20:13:11Z Undone (definition)http://everything2.com:80/user/Webster+1913/writeups/UndoneWebster 1913http://everything2.com:80/user/Webster 19131999-12-22T04:06:48Z1999-12-22T04:06:48Z <p><b>Un*done"</b> (?), <p>p. p. of <a href="/title/Undo">Undo</a>.</p> <p> &nbsp; <p align="right">&copy; <a href="/title/Webster+1913">Webster 1913</a>. <hr width="50%"> <p><b>Un*done"</b>, a. &#91;Pref. <i>un-</i> not + <i>done</i>.&#93; <p>Not done or performed; neglected.</p> <p> &nbsp; <p align="right">&copy; <a href="/title/Webster+1913">Webster 1913</a>. SciFiQuest 2010: Odyssey Two (event)http://everything2.com:80/user/sam512/writeups/SciFiQuest+2010%253A+Odyssey+Twosam512http://everything2.com:80/user/sam5122009-12-23T15:52:40Z2009-12-23T15:52:40Z <p align="center"><i><b>SciFiQuest 2010 will occupy the entirety of<br><big><big><big>Month One Of The Future: 00:00:00 <a href="/title/January+1%252C+2010">January 1, 2010</a> to 00:00:00 <a href="/title/February+1%252C+2010">February 1, 2010</a></big></big></big></b></i></p> <p>No, we do not care about GP. That's an <a href="/title/imaginary+number">imaginary number</a> in an imaginary database - <a href="/title/Monopoly">Monopoly</a> money, like Danish kroner and U.S. dollars. Here is what you get for contributing to SciFiQuest in our <a href="/title/post-scarcity">post-scarcity</a> post-capitalist <a href="/title/post-cyberpunk">post-cyberpunk</a> post-environment post-future: exposure. <b>You get your name and the name of the thing you wrote stuck on the front page of <a href="http://everything2.com">Everything Two Dot Com</a>, a site of enviable <a href="/title/PageRank">PageRank</a> and surprising visibility.</b> People will see your thing and read it and they may vote on it and they may C! it and they may bestow Editorial Coolness. They will click the "I Like This!" button. Join Me Or Die. Can You Do Any Less?</p> <p>The aliens have arrived, and their ravenous hunger can be sated by only one thing: stories. This Is A Parable About The&hellip; Why is it bad to make gays bishops, but okay to kill them? (essay)http://everything2.com:80/user/NanceMuse/writeups/Why+is+it+bad+to+make+gays+bishops%252C+but+okay+to+kill+them%253FNanceMusehttp://everything2.com:80/user/NanceMuse2009-12-23T07:39:05Z2009-12-23T07:39:05Z <p>I'm a member of the <a href="/title/Episcopal+Church">Episcopal Church</a> in the USA (TEC), so I'm of the Christian brand called <a href="/title/Anglican">Anglican</a>. I guess it's even official, since TEC is the only church in the United States that is also a constituent member of the <a href="/title/Anglican+Communion">Anglican Communion</a> (AC). The AC is a rather loose group of churches and peoples who share a common liturgy, usually pretend to be fond of each other, and consider the <a href="/title/Archbishop+of+Canterbury">Archbishop of Canterbury</a> as their <a href="/title/titular">titular</a> leader and spokesperson. Of course, there are many people who call themselves Anglican, and even fuss over who is a <em>Real Anglican</em>. This isn't anything new; just ask anyone who's active in the Church of England. We have a rich and <a href="/title/The+Church+of+England+is+born%253A+The+Elizabethan+religious+settlement">contentious history</a>.</p> <p>If you've been skimming the news in recent years, you might have picked up that TEC is having some internal struggles about accepting openly gay, lesbian and transgendered (LGBT) people in our church. Yes, they're everywhere now, and&hellip; Why is it bad to make gays bishops, but okay to kill them? (essay)http://everything2.com:80/user/NanceMuse/writeups/Why+is+it+bad+to+make+gays+bishops%252C+but+okay+to+kill+them%253FNanceMusehttp://everything2.com:80/user/NanceMuse2009-12-23T07:39:05Z2009-12-23T07:39:05Z <p>I'm a member of the <a href="/title/Episcopal+Church">Episcopal Church</a> in the USA (TEC), so I'm of the Christian brand called <a href="/title/Anglican">Anglican</a>. I guess it's even official, since TEC is the only church in the United States that is also a constituent member of the <a href="/title/Anglican+Communion">Anglican Communion</a> (AC). The AC is a rather loose group of churches and peoples who share a common liturgy, usually pretend to be fond of each other, and consider the <a href="/title/Archbishop+of+Canterbury">Archbishop of Canterbury</a> as their <a href="/title/titular">titular</a> leader and spokesperson. Of course, there are many people who call themselves Anglican, and even fuss over who is a <em>Real Anglican</em>. This isn't anything new; just ask anyone who's active in the Church of England. We have a rich and <a href="/title/The+Church+of+England+is+born%253A+The+Elizabethan+religious+settlement">contentious history</a>.</p> <p>If you've been skimming the news in recent years, you might have picked up that TEC is having some internal struggles about accepting openly gay, lesbian and transgendered (LGBT) people in our church. Yes, they're everywhere now, and&hellip; Pyjama New Year (poetry)http://everything2.com:80/user/imemememy/writeups/Pyjama+New+Yearimemememyhttp://everything2.com:80/user/imemememy2009-12-23T06:09:30Z2009-12-23T06:09:30Z <p>'Til now, you know, I've never been a pyjama man. <br>A <a href="/title/tee+shirt">tee shirt</a>, old <a href="/title/pants">pants</a>, that'd be more like me. <br>But these that you bought me, you know, I quite like them. They're <br>kind of like ones that <a href="/title/Clouseau">Clouseau</a> might wear.</p> <p>If things had worked out, we'd drink <a href="/title/tea">tea</a> in the mornings. <br><a href="/title/Reading+in+bed">Reading in bed</a> together, there in your big town house. <br>Thinking about walks, down in the city park. <br>Maybe we'd have owned, been owned by, a <a href="/title/dog">dog</a>.</p> <p>But somehow it still feels like <a href="/title/a+road+never+taken">a road never taken</a>. <br>A life for some other man, but not for me. <br>Even though I suspect that the door is half-open, <br>I'm still copping out, with 'Let be what will be'.</p> <p>But you know, when I see you, there's still something there. <br>It's a strong feeling, it won't go away. <br><a href="/title/You+are+quite+remarkable">You are quite remarkable</a>, you're one in a million. <br>And we didn't end badly - a civilised, delightful <br>affair, to remember, to savour, in fact - <br>But never to cling on, long past the moment. <br>We cannot deny all&hellip; December 23, 2009 (thing)http://everything2.com:80/user/Wuukiee/writeups/December+23%252C+2009Wuukieehttp://everything2.com:80/user/Wuukiee2009-12-23T08:14:52Z2009-12-23T08:14:52Z <p>I blame a crappy day at work, and omnipresent holiday music. Hearing "<a href="/title/it%2527s+the+most+wonderful+time+of+the+year">it's the most wonderful time of the year</a>" for the zillionth time, and muttering under my breath "no it's not the most wonderful time, it's the most harrowing time!" led to this.<br><br><br>It's the most harrowing time of the year,<br>Behind the cash register,<br>We're getting edgier,<br><a href="/title/Black+Friday">Black Friday</a>'s here,<br>It's the most harrowing time of the year.<br><br>It's the worst retail job season of all,<br>We've got loud shrieking children,<br>And problems with billing,<br>And lines down the hall!<br>It's the worst retail job season of all.<br><br>There'll be discount demanders,<br>Customers sans manners,<br>And squabbling families all day.<br>There'll be creeps making passes,<br>And rude yelling asses, <br>All shoving folks out of their way.<br> <br>It's the most harrowing time of the year.<br>Some shoplifting amateur<br>Fights with the manager.<br>The cops should be here!<br>It's the&hellip; Spontaneous Benediction (person)http://everything2.com:80/user/Stavrogin/writeups/Spontaneous+BenedictionStavroginhttp://everything2.com:80/user/Stavrogin2009-12-23T06:25:37Z2009-12-23T06:25:37Z <p>A completely <a href="/title/True+Stories">true story</a>:</p> <p>I was at my university, walking from class back to my room. It was 10:30 at night. There weren't very many people out. The air was misty, so every <a href="/title/Streetlamps.+Yellow+roses.+Everything+glows.">streetlight</a> had a large, bright <a href="/title/halo">halo</a>. Quite a lovely evening.</p> <p>As I neared the place where I had to turn off of the main road and take the smaller path to my dormitory, I saw four people standing on the corner in a <a href="/title/circle">circle</a>, holding hands. Four young men about my age, seemingly completely <a href="/title/sober">sober</a>, holding hands in a circle. "What are you doing?" I asked, as <a href="/title/affable">affably</a> as I could. I was very curious.</p> <p>"Well, we're each headed toward different parts of campus, so we're bidding farewell to one another for the evening," said one. "You can stand in the middle!" said another. Honestly, they were not drunk.</p> <p>I ducked under their arms and stood in the center. They seemed as though they would appreciate a bit of added theatrics, so I raised my&hellip; menstrual cycle (thing)http://everything2.com:80/user/paraclete/writeups/menstrual+cycleparacletehttp://everything2.com:80/user/paraclete2006-01-23T16:18:23Z2006-01-23T16:18:23Z <blockquote><big><big>If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?</big></big></blockquote> <p align="right"><cite><a href="/title/Gloria+Steinem">Gloria Steinem</a></cite></p> <p align="justify">I've always <a href="/title/I+pity+a+man+with+no+scars">felt sorry for boys</a>, biology-wise. They definitely got the bum end of it in terms of interesting hormonal reflexes. The female menstrual cycle has been constantly revised in my education since I was 8; year after year we'd return to it in <a href="/title/Biology">Biology</a> and learn a little bit more about its intricacies. Girls, of course, had the upper hand; we get <a href="/title/the+horror">the joy</a> of having to experience this knowledge in a practical setting once a month. Boys just sat there, <a href="/title/Men+suck%252C+right%253F+Men+are+just+plain+clueless%252C+isn%2527t+that+so%253F">clueless</a>. And excluded... I didn't get taught about the&hellip; DEAR LEADER (person)http://everything2.com:80/user/ncc05/writeups/DEAR+LEADERncc05http://everything2.com:80/user/ncc052009-12-22T22:19:47Z2009-12-22T22:19:47Z <p><a href="/title/ego">I</a> <a href="/title/collectivism">r</a><a href="/title/everything2">e</a><a href="/title/sin">m</a><a href="/title/I">e</a><a href="/title/arcane">m</a><a href="/title/kolkhoz">b</a><a href="/title/Siberia">e</a><a href="/title/Stalinism">r</a> <a href="/title/spent">t</a><a href="/title/Korea">h</a><a href="/title/communism">e </a> <a href="/title/Sartre">f</a><a href="/title/Jacques+Derrida">i</a><a href="/title/The+Matrix">r</a><a href="/title/too">s</a><a href="/title/WWE">t</a> <a href="/title/hints">t</a><a href="/title/getting+to+know+you+noders+fucking+sucked">i</a><a href="/title/Zapatista">m</a><a href="/title/much">e</a> <a href="/title/ncc05">I</a> <a href="/title/wizard">s</a><a href="/title/Engels">a</a><a href="/title/prescription">w</a> <b>DEAR LEADER</b>. <a href="/title/strip+club">M</a><a href="/title/Vercingetorix">y</a> <a href="/title/flapper">f</a><a href="/title/Husker+Du">a</a><a href="/title/Jabba+the+Hutt">t</a><a href="/title/peruse">h</a><a href="/title/safe+word">e</a><a href="/title/Golden+Horde">r</a> <a href="/title/T">t</a><a href="/title/Graceland">o</a><a href="/title/Greenland">o</a><a href="/title/Iceland">k</a> <a href="/title/Trip+down+Mexico+way">u</a><a href="/title/suck+it">s</a> <a href="/title/endless+eight">o</a><a href="/title/Alcohol+and+teens">n</a> <a href="/title/Green+Pond">t</a><a href="/title/Yggdrasil">h</a><a href="/title/mover+and+shaker">e</a> <a href="/title/public+transit">o</a><a href="/title/NYC+subway">l</a><a href="/title/MBTA">d</a> <a href="/title/London+Underground">b</a><a href="/title/Paris+Metro">r</a><a href="/title/Tokyo+Subway">o</a><a href="/title/Overground">k</a><a href="/title/Vauxhall+and+I">e</a><a href="/title/Across+110th+Street">n</a> <a href="/title/disassemble">d</a><a href="/title/antidisestablishmentarianism">o</a><a href="/title/Maxi+Priest">w</a><a href="/title/Judas+Priest">n</a> <a href="/title/supersonic">m</a><a href="/title/Shanghai+Pudong+Airport">a</a><a href="/title/Acela">g</a><a href="/title/TGV">l</a><a href="/title/Eurostar">e</a><a href="/title/public+transit+in+the+United+States">v</a> <a href="/title/within">i</a><a href="/title/Discordianism">n</a><a href="/title/Gordian+knot">t</a><a href="/title/o">o</a> <a href="/title/Dave+Matthews+Band">t</a>&hellip; Suzumiya Haruhi (thing)http://everything2.com:80/user/Jibbley/writeups/Suzumiya+HaruhiJibbleyhttp://everything2.com:80/user/Jibbley2009-12-19T08:27:07Z2009-12-19T08:27:07Z <small>eight</small> <hr> <p><em><strong>Haruhi Suzumiya</strong></em> (&#28092;&#23470;&#12495;&#12523;&#12498;) is a <a href="/title/Japan">Japanese</a> <a href="/title/media">media</a> <a href="/title/franchise">franchise</a> consisting of nine <a href="/title/light+novel">light novel</a>s, two <a href="/title/manga">manga</a> series, three <a href="/title/anime">anime</a> series, and various <a href="/title/video+game">video game</a>s and <a href="/title/merchandise">merchandise</a>, which all centre around the titular <a href="/title/high+school+girl">high school girl</a> and her unofficial <a href="/title/school+club">school club</a>, the <a href="/title/SOS+Brigade">SOS Brigade</a> (SOS&#22243;, <strong>S</strong>preading Excitement all <strong>O</strong>ver the World with the Haruhi <strong>S</strong>uzumiya <strong>Brigade</strong>). The novels and the original broadcast of the first season of the anime are notable in that <a href="/title/anachronism">the order in which they are released is not the same</a> as <a href="/title/Haruhi+Suzumiya+series+timeline">the order in which events take place</a>. The Haruhi Suzumiya fandom is known as <a href="/title/Haruhiism">Haruhiism</a>.</p> <p>Most of these links point to empty/non-existent nodes, so hopefully this writeup will lead to those being filled in one by one.</p> <h1>Characters</h1> <h3>SOS Brigade</h3> <dl> </dl>&hellip; Why is it bad to make gays bishops, but okay to kill them? (essay)http://everything2.com:80/user/NanceMuse/writeups/Why+is+it+bad+to+make+gays+bishops%252C+but+okay+to+kill+them%253FNanceMusehttp://everything2.com:80/user/NanceMuse2009-12-23T07:39:05Z2009-12-23T07:39:05Z <p>I'm a member of the <a href="/title/Episcopal+Church">Episcopal Church</a> in the USA (TEC), so I'm of the Christian brand called <a href="/title/Anglican">Anglican</a>. I guess it's even official, since TEC is the only church in the United States that is also a constituent member of the <a href="/title/Anglican+Communion">Anglican Communion</a> (AC). The AC is a rather loose group of churches and peoples who share a common liturgy, usually pretend to be fond of each other, and consider the <a href="/title/Archbishop+of+Canterbury">Archbishop of Canterbury</a> as their <a href="/title/titular">titular</a> leader and spokesperson. Of course, there are many people who call themselves Anglican, and even fuss over who is a <em>Real Anglican</em>. This isn't anything new; just ask anyone who's active in the Church of England. We have a rich and <a href="/title/The+Church+of+England+is+born%253A+The+Elizabethan+religious+settlement">contentious history</a>.</p> <p>If you've been skimming the news in recent years, you might have picked up that TEC is having some internal struggles about accepting openly gay, lesbian and transgendered (LGBT) people in our church. Yes, they're everywhere now, and&hellip; The cynic's election guide: Conservative vs. Liberal (idea)http://everything2.com:80/user/vonCube/writeups/The+cynic%2527s+election+guide%253A+Conservative+vs.+LiberalvonCubehttp://everything2.com:80/user/vonCube2009-12-20T23:26:46Z2009-12-20T23:26:46Z <p>Hey! Are you the rare <a href="/title/Gen-Y">Gen-Y</a> cynic motivated to vote so you can spoil your ballot on purpose? That's a horrible waste of paper, and you my friend are killing the planet. So to better use your vote in a constructive way, I've created a simple, concise platform comparison between Liberals and Conservatives; direct your vote in the way you see best. (note: party affiliation in your area may vary - <a href="/title/Olympia+Snowe">Olympia Snowe</a> and <a href="/title/Steny+Hoyer">Steny Hoyer</a> seem to be batting for the wrong teams.)</p> <p> <br>General Ethos:</p> <p>Conservative: You should be able to <a href="/title/flag+burning">do</a> anything you want, so long as we don't find it morally objectionable</p> <p>Liberal: You should be able to <a href="/title/Holocaust+denial">say</a> anything you want, so long as we don't find it morally objectionable</p> <p> <br>On <a href="/title/Israel">Israel</a>/<a href="/title/Palestine">Palestine</a>:</p> <p>C: Israelis are slightly less brown than Palestinians; therefore, we support them.</p> <p>L: Palestinians are slightly <i>more</i> brown than Israelis; therefore, we support them. Plus, it gives me an excuse&hellip; Why is it bad to make gays bishops, but okay to kill them? (essay)http://everything2.com:80/user/NanceMuse/writeups/Why+is+it+bad+to+make+gays+bishops%252C+but+okay+to+kill+them%253FNanceMusehttp://everything2.com:80/user/NanceMuse2009-12-23T07:39:05Z2009-12-23T07:39:05Z <p>I'm a member of the <a href="/title/Episcopal+Church">Episcopal Church</a> in the USA (TEC), so I'm of the Christian brand called <a href="/title/Anglican">Anglican</a>. I guess it's even official, since TEC is the only church in the United States that is also a constituent member of the <a href="/title/Anglican+Communion">Anglican Communion</a> (AC). The AC is a rather loose group of churches and peoples who share a common liturgy, usually pretend to be fond of each other, and consider the <a href="/title/Archbishop+of+Canterbury">Archbishop of Canterbury</a> as their <a href="/title/titular">titular</a> leader and spokesperson. Of course, there are many people who call themselves Anglican, and even fuss over who is a <em>Real Anglican</em>. This isn't anything new; just ask anyone who's active in the Church of England. We have a rich and <a href="/title/The+Church+of+England+is+born%253A+The+Elizabethan+religious+settlement">contentious history</a>.</p> <p>If you've been skimming the news in recent years, you might have picked up that TEC is having some internal struggles about accepting openly gay, lesbian and transgendered (LGBT) people in our church. Yes, they're everywhere now, and&hellip; A Decade of Decadence: Britnoder Memorial Pub Crawl (event)http://everything2.com:80/user/TheLady/writeups/A+Decade+of+Decadence%253A+Britnoder+Memorial+Pub+CrawlTheLadyhttp://everything2.com:80/user/TheLady2009-10-02T12:46:37Z2009-10-02T12:46:37Z Well folks, the title really tells you everything you need to know here. But I'm gonna go ahead and tell you a little story anyway. <p> A few days ago, I decided to organise all my Facebook friends into lists, by how and from where I know them. I was secretly getting a bit worried that most of my "friends" were really work colleagues and that I'm turning into one of those corporate types and will eventually replace my profile picture with <a href="/title/I+don%2527t+have+a+cat">my cat</a> in an Intel t-shirt or something. So I broke it up into family, work, friends from back home, people I know from when I lived in Dublin, people from the old alt.fan.pratchett community, misc, and noders. And you know what? After my old school friends, the noder list turned out to be the longest. <p> And then I sort of went down the list and started remembering all kinds of fun stories I know about these people, all sorts of adventures we shared... Like the time I went to a residential gaming convention in deepest darkest Irish countryside&hellip; If the US is so great, why don't other countries give themselves to us? (idea)http://everything2.com:80/user/RevJim23/writeups/If+the+US+is+so+great%252C+why+don%2527t+other+countries+give+themselves+to+us%253FRevJim23http://everything2.com:80/user/RevJim232001-01-06T06:33:37Z2001-01-06T06:33:37Z I remember it like it was yesterday: Mrs. Turchi's <a href="/title/4th+grade">fourth grade</a> class. We spent the morning <a href="/title/learning">learning</a> about how <i>positively <a href="/title/revolting">revolting</a></i> other countries were. How most of them didn't even have <a href="/title/indoor+plumbing">indoor plumbing</a>. How <a href="/title/immigrants">immigrants</a> risk life and limb escaping from their rodent-infested, sewage-strewn countries to crawl here on hands and knees, expecting to find the <a href="/title/gold+plated+cardboard+boxes">streets paved with gold</a>. <p> At the end of this <a href="/title/lesson">lesson</a> we were asked to write a story (and then read it to the class) titled <b>"Why I love my country"</b>. Like a good little <a href="/title/brainwashed">brainwashed</a> <a href="/title/clod">clod</a>, I wrote a passionate story, complete with imagery of waving flags and <a href="/title/justice">justice</a> for all. I delivered my heart-felt speech with proper desk-pounding sound effects. I believed. <p> But later that evening I started thinking about it from a different perspective. I wondered, <i>"If the <a href="/title/United+States">United States</a> is so great, why don't other countries just give themselves to us?"</i> I knew that there was a&hellip; Why can't you read in dreams? (dream)http://everything2.com:80/user/omnibusXnihilo/writeups/Why+can%2527t+you+read+in+dreams%253FomnibusXnihilohttp://everything2.com:80/user/omnibusXnihilo2009-11-19T21:52:04Z2009-11-19T21:52:04Z <p>In <a href="/title/FTP+from+my+dreams">FTP from my dreams</a> someone says "you can't read in dreams".</p> <p>In my dream journal, I found that I have read a book about <a href="/title/Goode%2527s+World+Atlas">MAPS</a>, another whose title was INVUM which was about Hell, and various traffic signs (like STOP, and the names of streets). I have even seen signs in unknown languages I didn't understand and written down the characters I remembered. In a dream I read writing carved in trees and in another dream I saw the number 123 on two hills. Often, if a word found in a dream represents a novel place or concept, I use it as a <a href="/title/neologism">neologism</a> in real life.</p> <p>I've also fallen in dreams, usually because I was flying and shot down... and died in other ways such as being eaten by animals.</p> <p>Fortunately, I cannot feel pain in dreams. <br>Dying in a dream is like either going blind and waking up, <br>or suddenly <a href="/title/teleporting">teleporting</a> to a new place in another dream.</p> <p>So I bust the myths that people can't read in dreams, <br>nor live to tell a dream about dying.</p> &hellip; On being sane in insane places (idea)http://everything2.com:80/user/Princess+Therion/writeups/On+being+sane+in+insane+placesPrincess Therionhttp://everything2.com:80/user/Princess Therion2004-07-11T20:14:51Z2004-07-11T20:14:51Z <p align="center"> <i><big><big>If sanity and insanity exist, how shall we know them<a href="/title/There%2527s+no+such+thing+as+normal">?</a></big></big></i> </p> <p> The question above, the many others like it, and the thoughts it inspires have bothered <a href="/title/philosopher">philosopher</a>s, physiatrists, lawyers, <a href="/title/poets">poets</a> and <a href="/title/angsty+teenagers">angsty teenagers</a> for centuries. There are the questions of <a href="/title/cultural+relativity">cultural relativity</a>, <a href="/title/moral+ambiguity">moral ambiguity</a> and just what makes something normal that produce books, films and papers all trying to tackle the subject in various ways. Some, such as <a href="/title/R.D+Laing">R.D Laing</a>'s works, have made their mark and are always references when dealing with this controversial topic &ndash; but many are brushed aside or laughed at by those professionals seeking <a href="/title/Example+of+a+normal+subgroup+of+a+normal+subgroup+which+is+not+normal">neat and clear definitions</a>. </p> <p> <i>On being sane in insane places</i><sup>1</sup> is the name of a paper written in <a href="/title/1973">1973</a> by Dr. <a href="/title/David+L.+Rosenhan">David L. Rosenhan</a>, in which he tries to deal with the question of just what makes a person insane&hellip; Red, red robin (thing)http://everything2.com:80/user/iamkaym/writeups/Red%252C+red+robiniamkaymhttp://everything2.com:80/user/iamkaym2005-02-06T12:27:56Z2005-02-06T12:27:56Z <p align="center"><i><b>When the red, red robin goes bob, bob, bobbin' along</b></i></p> <blockquote><blockquote><p>This was a popular song in the era of the wind-up <a href="/title/Victrola">Victrola</a> and its thick phonograph records. One of my first memories is playing with an old machine stored in a great-aunt's attic.</p> <p align="center"><i>Wake up, wake up, you sleepy head,<br> Get up, get up, get out of bed</i></p> <p>The robin was the first bird many youngsters learned to identify, not necessarily because of the song. In <a href="/title/snowshoeing">snowshoe country</a>, just south of the Canadian border, winters were severe and protracted. Spring was very welcome. Its arrival was heralded by the robin. </p> <p>The sighting of the first robin, always a solitary male, was <a href="/title/front+page+news">front page news</a> in many little towns. The males arrived first to claim their individual territories. Very anti-social, they frequently had bloody battles until the boundary lines were drawn.</p> <p>The females arrived several weeks</blockquote></blockquote>&hellip; DEAR LEADER (person)http://everything2.com:80/user/ncc05/writeups/DEAR+LEADERncc05http://everything2.com:80/user/ncc052009-12-22T22:19:47Z2009-12-22T22:19:47Z <p><a href="/title/ego">I</a> <a href="/title/collectivism">r</a><a href="/title/everything2">e</a><a href="/title/sin">m</a><a href="/title/I">e</a><a href="/title/arcane">m</a><a href="/title/kolkhoz">b</a><a href="/title/Siberia">e</a><a href="/title/Stalinism">r</a> <a href="/title/spent">t</a><a href="/title/Korea">h</a><a href="/title/communism">e </a> <a href="/title/Sartre">f</a><a href="/title/Jacques+Derrida">i</a><a href="/title/The+Matrix">r</a><a href="/title/too">s</a><a href="/title/WWE">t</a> <a href="/title/hints">t</a><a href="/title/getting+to+know+you+noders+fucking+sucked">i</a><a href="/title/Zapatista">m</a><a href="/title/much">e</a> <a href="/title/ncc05">I</a> <a href="/title/wizard">s</a><a href="/title/Engels">a</a><a href="/title/prescription">w</a> <b>DEAR LEADER</b>. <a href="/title/strip+club">M</a><a href="/title/Vercingetorix">y</a> <a href="/title/flapper">f</a><a href="/title/Husker+Du">a</a><a href="/title/Jabba+the+Hutt">t</a><a href="/title/peruse">h</a><a href="/title/safe+word">e</a><a href="/title/Golden+Horde">r</a> <a href="/title/T">t</a><a href="/title/Graceland">o</a><a href="/title/Greenland">o</a><a href="/title/Iceland">k</a> <a href="/title/Trip+down+Mexico+way">u</a><a href="/title/suck+it">s</a> <a href="/title/endless+eight">o</a><a href="/title/Alcohol+and+teens">n</a> <a href="/title/Green+Pond">t</a><a href="/title/Yggdrasil">h</a><a href="/title/mover+and+shaker">e</a> <a href="/title/public+transit">o</a><a href="/title/NYC+subway">l</a><a href="/title/MBTA">d</a> <a href="/title/London+Underground">b</a><a href="/title/Paris+Metro">r</a><a href="/title/Tokyo+Subway">o</a><a href="/title/Overground">k</a><a href="/title/Vauxhall+and+I">e</a><a href="/title/Across+110th+Street">n</a> <a href="/title/disassemble">d</a><a href="/title/antidisestablishmentarianism">o</a><a href="/title/Maxi+Priest">w</a><a href="/title/Judas+Priest">n</a> <a href="/title/supersonic">m</a><a href="/title/Shanghai+Pudong+Airport">a</a><a href="/title/Acela">g</a><a href="/title/TGV">l</a><a href="/title/Eurostar">e</a><a href="/title/public+transit+in+the+United+States">v</a> <a href="/title/within">i</a><a href="/title/Discordianism">n</a><a href="/title/Gordian+knot">t</a><a href="/title/o">o</a> <a href="/title/Dave+Matthews+Band">t</a>&hellip; DEAR LEADER (person)http://everything2.com:80/user/ncc05/writeups/DEAR+LEADERncc05http://everything2.com:80/user/ncc052009-12-22T22:19:47Z2009-12-22T22:19:47Z <p><a href="/title/ego">I</a> <a href="/title/collectivism">r</a><a href="/title/everything2">e</a><a href="/title/sin">m</a><a href="/title/I">e</a><a href="/title/arcane">m</a><a href="/title/kolkhoz">b</a><a href="/title/Siberia">e</a><a href="/title/Stalinism">r</a> <a href="/title/spent">t</a><a href="/title/Korea">h</a><a href="/title/communism">e </a> <a href="/title/Sartre">f</a><a href="/title/Jacques+Derrida">i</a><a href="/title/The+Matrix">r</a><a href="/title/too">s</a><a href="/title/WWE">t</a> <a href="/title/hints">t</a><a href="/title/getting+to+know+you+noders+fucking+sucked">i</a><a href="/title/Zapatista">m</a><a href="/title/much">e</a> <a href="/title/ncc05">I</a> <a href="/title/wizard">s</a><a href="/title/Engels">a</a><a href="/title/prescription">w</a> <b>DEAR LEADER</b>. <a href="/title/strip+club">M</a><a href="/title/Vercingetorix">y</a> <a href="/title/flapper">f</a><a href="/title/Husker+Du">a</a><a href="/title/Jabba+the+Hutt">t</a><a href="/title/peruse">h</a><a href="/title/safe+word">e</a><a href="/title/Golden+Horde">r</a> <a href="/title/T">t</a><a href="/title/Graceland">o</a><a href="/title/Greenland">o</a><a href="/title/Iceland">k</a> <a href="/title/Trip+down+Mexico+way">u</a><a href="/title/suck+it">s</a> <a href="/title/endless+eight">o</a><a href="/title/Alcohol+and+teens">n</a> <a href="/title/Green+Pond">t</a><a href="/title/Yggdrasil">h</a><a href="/title/mover+and+shaker">e</a> <a href="/title/public+transit">o</a><a href="/title/NYC+subway">l</a><a href="/title/MBTA">d</a> <a href="/title/London+Underground">b</a><a href="/title/Paris+Metro">r</a><a href="/title/Tokyo+Subway">o</a><a href="/title/Overground">k</a><a href="/title/Vauxhall+and+I">e</a><a href="/title/Across+110th+Street">n</a> <a href="/title/disassemble">d</a><a href="/title/antidisestablishmentarianism">o</a><a href="/title/Maxi+Priest">w</a><a href="/title/Judas+Priest">n</a> <a href="/title/supersonic">m</a><a href="/title/Shanghai+Pudong+Airport">a</a><a href="/title/Acela">g</a><a href="/title/TGV">l</a><a href="/title/Eurostar">e</a><a href="/title/public+transit+in+the+United+States">v</a> <a href="/title/within">i</a><a href="/title/Discordianism">n</a><a href="/title/Gordian+knot">t</a><a href="/title/o">o</a> <a href="/title/Dave+Matthews+Band">t</a>&hellip; Don't want to be lonely no more (idea)http://everything2.com:80/user/stand%252Falone%252Fbitch/writeups/Don%2527t+want+to+be+lonely+no+morestand/alone/bitchhttp://everything2.com:80/user/stand/alone/bitch2001-02-16T19:48:22Z2001-02-16T19:48:22Z <p align="right"> Don't want to be <a href="/title/what+loneliness+can+do+to+you">lonely</a> no more:<br> I don't want to go out <a href="/title/drinkin%2527">drinkin'</a><br> to silence all the thinkin' and<br> I don't want to be desparate: <br> Don't want to reach out grasping<br> for everything that passes, don't <br> want to be <a href="/title/needy">needy</a>, don't want to <br> be <a href="/title/I+am+just+so+tired">tired</a> and hungry and <a href="/title/I+want+to+be+everywhere">greedy</a> and<br> I don't want to be <a href="/title/lonely">lonely</a> anymore. Beat Generation (idea)http://everything2.com:80/user/ignu/writeups/Beat+Generationignuhttp://everything2.com:80/user/ignu2002-12-11T20:45:07Z2002-12-11T20:45:07Z In this essay, I discuss reasons why critics were hostile toward the <a href="/title/Beat">Beat</a>s. <p align="center">The Beat Generation: Fact or Myth?</p> <p>In the fifties, a cultural phenomenon swept the nation. Millions of youths began to call themselves "Beats," write poetry, and use <a href="/title/drugs">drugs</a>. They complained about <a href="/title/conservative">conservative</a> <a href="/title/America">America</a> and the dangers of <a href="/title/conform">conform</a>ity, and media regarded them as lazy drug addicts. Years later, when <a href="/title/Jack+Kerouac">Jack Kerouac</a>, <a href="/title/William+Burroughs">William Burroughs</a>, and <a href="/title/Allen+Ginsberg">Allen Ginsberg</a> published their works, critics and the media treated them as spawns of this counterculture. Critics and the nation looked down upon the Beat writers for their extravagant lifestyles, but few in their time recognized the great literature they were making and the impact they would have on <a href="/title/American+literature">American literature</a>.</p> <p>Years before the publication of Jack Kerouac's <u><a href="/title/On+the+Road">On the Road</a></u>, the media was showering the nation with stories of the Beat Generation. When Kerouac emerged, he became the <a href="/title/quintessential">quintessential</a> "<a href="/title/beatnik">beatnik</a>," a&hellip; How to Kill a Republicon Senator (how-to)http://everything2.com:80/user/artman2003/writeups/How+to+Kill+a+Republicon+Senatorartman2003http://everything2.com:80/user/artman20032009-12-17T17:11:09Z2009-12-17T17:11:09Z <p>As most people well know, <a href="/title/Republican">Republican</a>/<a href="/title/Conservative">Conservative</a> <a href="/title/Senator">Senator</a>s, like most Republican/Conservative people, are a particularly evil race of semi-humans who are imbued with certain evil super powers bestowed upon them by the malevolent god they worship and pay lip service to. They do things like pass laws to destroy civil liberties and give money to gigantic corporations - in the form of tax breaks - on a regular basis. And even though they claim to be against <a href="/title/abortion">abortion</a>, they feed on the blood of the babies of liberals and poor people to maintain their <a href="/title/immortality">immortality</a>.</p> <p>Their most recent evil sin is eviscerating a health care bill, keeping a provision in that would fine people for not having health insurance, but made sure that the health insurance they could get to avoid the fine was kicked out of the bill. <a href="/title/FUGM">FUGM</a>, indeed</p> <p>Over the years many groups have been formed to try to kill these inhuman beasts, like the various zombie and vampire hunter associations that have cropped up across the&hellip; Noders By The Lake 2: I've Got This Nodermeet, and It's Fucking Golden (event)http://everything2.com:80/user/chaotic_poet/writeups/Noders+By+The+Lake+2%253A+I%2527ve+Got+This+Nodermeet%252C+and+It%2527s+Fucking+Goldenchaotic_poethttp://everything2.com:80/user/chaotic_poet2009-12-22T01:14:43Z2009-12-22T01:14:43Z <center><big><em>Friday, July 2 - Sunday, July 4, 2010</em></big><br> The Second City's Second Nodermeet</center> <br> Excerpt from the <a href="/title/Rod+Blagojevich">Blagojevich</a> transcripts: <blockquote>"It's a&#91n&#93 &#91 <strong>expletive</strong> &#93 valuable thing. You don't just give &#91 <strong>a nodermeet</strong> &#93 away for nothing. If they're not going to offer anything of value I might just take it. I've got this &#91 <strong>nodermeet</strong> &#93 and it's &#91 <strong>expletive</strong> &#93 golden. I'm not just giving it up for &#91 <strong>expletive</strong> &#93 nothing.I'm not gonna do it. And, and I can always use it. I can parachute me there."</blockquote> <p>Tired of your boring, politically stable and just government? Come to Chicago - <a href="/title/+Richard+Joseph+Daley">boiling cesspool of political corruption</a> and home of <a href="/title/Chicago-style+pizza">ridiculous foods</a>! Celebrate the US's Independence Day by coming to the place that makes one wonder if free government is always the best idea. Do it with&hellip; carbon dioxide (essay)http://everything2.com:80/user/doyle/writeups/carbon+dioxidedoylehttp://everything2.com:80/user/doyle2009-12-20T16:24:38Z2009-12-20T16:24:38Z <p>High school sophomores have firm convictions: </p> <blockquote>Neil Armstrong never walked on the moon.<br> We will all die in 2012.<br> Aliens walk among us. </blockquote> <p> In class I try to avoid opinions. In the short run, many of my lambs will remain confused. It is not my job to convince Amanda that <a href="/title/Neil+Armstrong">Neil Armstrong</a> walked on the moon--as soon as I use my position of authority to make a point, I've lost my chance to teach a child how to think.</p> <p> It is my job, however, to make them skeptics, to have a sense of what we do not know, to suspend judgment while using their God-given senses and rationality to come to their own conclusions, conclusions that might change should new evidence become available. As a result, I fear that some day a mother will tell my principal that I did not vigorously dispel the notion of aliens, of rigged moonwalks, of the impending doom 3 short years away. </p> <p>Or maybe the parents believe these things, too. </p> <br><br> <p> One of the hardest&hellip;

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