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QUBO
QUBO QUBO ran from 2006 to 2021. It began as a block of cartoons on NBC on Saturday mornings. Then it moved to a free digital over the air channel for kids. We discovered it when we purchased a digital … Continue reading
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Tagged 2006, 2011, 2013, 2021, 3-2-1 Penguins!, ACME, American, Animal Atlas, Animorphs, Anne of Green Gables The Animated Series, Artzooka, Astronomy, Bob the Builder, British, Cable, Canadian, Cartoon Network, Castle, Christian, Cosmology, Denver, Digital Antenna, Dragon, DVDs, English, Fantasy, Franklin, Geography, Harry and His Big Bucket of Dinosaurs, History, Jacob Two-Two, Jane and The Dragon, Knight, Marvin The Tap Dancing Horse, Moirarty, Mona The Vampire, NBC Saturday Morning, New Scotland Yard, New Zealand, Nickelodeon, PBS Kids, Pecola, Pipi Longstocking, QUBO, School Bus, Science, Science Fiction, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Space Shio, Supernatural, The Magic School Bus, The Mysteries of Alfred The Hedgehog, The World of Richard Scary, V.I.LE., Where on Earth is Carmen Sandeigo, Zula Patrol
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America By Alissa Quart, 2018 In the introduction to her book Quart overviews the reasons why Families Can’t Afford America any longer. Student Loans and Medical Debt are a huge issue for Generation X … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Politics/Economics
Tagged 1% Television, 24 Hour Day Care, 24 Hour Day Care Needed, Adjunct Professors, Alexa, America, American, backlash, Benefits, Billions, bills, Bosses, Captialism, Child Care, College, Colleges, Commune, Computers, Consumerism, Contract Work, Crime, Day Care, descrimination, Do What You Love, Downtown Abbey, Economy, education, Employment, English, Feminism, FMLA, Food Stamps, Goodwill, Hand To Mouth, Headstart, History, Huge Income Gap, Huge Wage Gap, Humanities, inflation, Irregular Hours, ITT, Keeping Up with the Jones's, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Law, Lawyers, Lie, Long Term Careers, Low-Income, MA, Mad Men, Manipulate, Maternity Leave, Maternity Wall, Medicaid, MIddle Class, minimum wage, Mortage, Nanny's Strugle, No Love or No Money, Ozark, Paternity Leave, PhD, Politics, Poor, Pre-K, Precariat, Precarity, Pregnancy, Private Program, Private School, Proletariat, Public, Raising Brooklyn, Ray Bradbury, Real House Wives, Reality TV, Rent, Rich, Robots, Roommates, Roseanne, Science, Second Act Industry Myth, Shift Work, Short Term Jobs, Siri, Social Class, Squeezed, Student Loan Debt, take advantage, Technology, The Middle, The Outsourced Self, The Secret Life of Inequality, The Wire, There Will Come Soft Rains, Trade Schools, Trump University, Uber, Uber Dads, Union, Upstairs Downstairs, We Believe the Children, Wealthy, Why Our Families Can Afford America, Without Predictablity, Working Class, World, worry
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A History of Fantasy
A History of Fantasy Viggo Mortensen captured my imagination in The Lord of the Rings, as he did many others. I’d seen him in G.I Jane and A Perfect Murder before, but not given him a lot of thought. But … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged 28 Days, A Fellowship of the Ring, A History of Violence, A Perfect Murder, A Walk On The Moon, Aragorn, Attraction, Author Cari Lynn Vaughn, Books, Connection, Cowboy-Poet, Danish, Dark, Dream, Eastern Promises, Ed Harris, Edgy, English, Fighter, French, G.I. Jane, Hildago, Horses, Intelligent, Italian, Liv Tyler, Maria Bello, Men with Heart, Musician, Naomi Watts, Painter, Perceval Press, Photographer, Poet, Publications, Purple Rose of Cairo, Quiet, Return of the King, Sandra Bullock, Sexy, Shy, Soccer Fan, son, Spanish, Strider, Submission, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Tough Men, Traveler, Viggo Mortensen, Warrior, Wild, Witness, World Traveler
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An English Affair
An English Affair Ralph Finnes I first noticed this strange bloke in the 1995 Strange Days. Although Ralph Finnes had been acting for five years prior to that movie, I had not seen him before. It wasn’t until after I … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged 1992, 1995, 1996, Angry, British, Brothers, Camelot, Clash of the Titans, Dark, English, Family, Flashforward, Hades, Harry Potter, Heathcliff, Howl, James Bond, Joseph Finnes, Lord Voldemort, M, Ralph Finnes, Schindler's List, Shakespeare, Skyfall, Strange Days, The Avengers, The End of the Affair, The English Patient, The Very Thought of You, Wounded Animal, Wrath of the Titans, Wuthering Heights
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Pregnant Pause
Pregnant Pause The second trimester was better in many ways, but it was not without its own set of problems. As I started to feel better physically, financially things were beginning to deteriorate. I had been teaching English at a … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Feminism, Flashback
Tagged 2nd Trimester, Anastasia Vaughn, Angry, Babies R Us, Baby Bath Tub, Car Seat, Clothes, College, Community College, Contract, Crib, English, English Department, Female Department Head, Frustrated, Graco, Greensboro, GTCC, In-Laws, It's A Girl, Jeep Stroller, Job, Legal Action, Let Go, Male Department Head, Money, Neighbor, North Carolina, Paula, Pregnancy, Pregnant Pause, Prejudice, Randolph Community College, Solidarity, Spring Semester, Stroller, Substitute, Summer, support, Teacher, Teaching, Ultrasound
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The Insanity of Normality
The Insanity of Normality The Insanity of Normality by Arno Grun which was published in 1987 was translated from German in 1992. He says in the preface “Whereas people who can longer bare the absence of human values in the … Continue reading
Posted in Psychology
Tagged Acceptance, Aliveness, Arno Grun, autonomous self, Conformist, Crazy, Criminals, Deliverance, Destructiveness, English, Evil, Fragmented, German, Good, Healing, help, Helplessness, Homosexuality, inner world, Low Self Esteem, Men, Merge, Milan Kundera, Mother, Murder, Nazis, Normal, oppressor, Outer, Overwhelming, Pain, Prison, Pyschic Split, Rage, Rebel, Rejection, sadist, self-esteem, society, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Insanity of Normality, Victim, Victimizer, Violence, Wholeness, Women, World
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