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Jul.06.2008
The past week there was a court order by Viacom (owner of CBS, Nick at Nite, TVLand, MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, CMT, Spike, BET, Noggin, The N, gee no monopoly here) has ordered that they want YouTube viewers histories in what they watch. Of course the privacy advocates are having baby...
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Jul.05.2008
In Memory of Brooke Bennett
Grateful
For my brother
In the village, when the news broke
Of the sixth grade girls, ambushed
In the woods on heir way to school
Raped, tortured, the one surviving
Staggering naked onto the tracks so bloody
The trainmen thought the head to toe red
Was a...
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Jul.04.2008
I just finished Jessica Barksdale Inclan's blog about what we should celebrate on July 4. Lately my life has taken twists and turns, some good, some setbacks. It's made me think that I want to change things-take some classes, find another job, which isn't easy to do in...
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Jul.03.2008
Erika Lutz has issued a challenge of a one word meme. I'm always up for a challenge, so here we go:
Where is your cell phone? couch
Your significant other? none
Your hair? short
Your mother? home
Your father? healed
Your favorite time of day? Dawn
Your dream last night? odd...
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Jul.03.2008
Well I've done it again. Somehow I've gotten many books from the library and as the old T-Shirt says, So Many Books, So Little Time. It's embarrassing, let me tell you. The books are on my bedstand, saying "Hello,Jennifer! When are you going to read us? We need to be read, Jennifer!...
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Jul.02.2008
I just finished a book called Skinny Bitch. Don’t ask me what possessed me to read it; suddenly it became popular because Posh Spice was spotted reading it. Curious, I reserved it at the library and got it last week. Most of it made sense; give up diet sodas, candy, meat, etc. Then the authors kept...
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Jul.01.2008
When I was seventeen or eighteen, Dana Carvey started to do an imitation of a man named John McLaughlin. Like all of Carvey's imitations, it bordered on exaggerated genius. He would yell "Issue One!" Before any of the panelists could respond, he would yell "Wrong!" Then he would...
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Jun.30.2008
It's week three of the Grammarphobe lessons! I can feel the excitement, the bated breath, what the heck are we talking about today, Miss Jennifer? Well girls and boys, it's prepositional phrases! Yes, prep phrases! Good old prep phrases. Preppie Phrases, they probably wear...
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Jun.30.2008
It's June 30th, and when it's June 30th, I think of Richard Brautigan. He had a poetry book called June 30th, June 30th, so it's natural I think of him today. I also think of how his influence helped me in my life.
When I was a baby, my dad found two framed Richard Brautigan pieces and...
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Jun.29.2008
I couldn't find it this morning, but this is a letter included in Armistead Maupin's More Tales of the City. Maupin used it to come out to his parents. I have done a bit of light editing and including some other current people who Michael might have problems with today. Otherwise, the letter is...
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Jun.29.2008
Today is the Gay Pride parade in the City. Some years I go to see everything, because everyone is so happy. People are dancing in the streets, usually one of Fred Phelps’ people are there yelling but eventually they get shouted out and go home, and a lot of people wear rainbow shirts or Endora...
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Jun.28.2008
A couple of months back there was a Pickles cartoon where Earl finally gets a new chair. He decides to put his old chair on the road so someone can get it and put a FREE sign on it. He and his wife Opal move the couch and he says "Good-bye, old friend." The next panel shows not only the...
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Jun.27.2008
Last month, one of the best actresses I ever saw on television died. Her name was Beverlee McKinsey. If you're not familiar to soap operas, you're probably scratching your head, wondering who she is. Beverlee McKinsey created two popular characters in soap operas: the Daddy loving, stepmother...
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Jun.26.2008
Last night I worked late and was waiting for BART. For the first time in weeks, I felt truly happy. DeLauer's was saved, my stimulus check from the government is coming this week, and life was good.
I was waiting for the Pittsburg/Bay Point train when the Richmond train arrived. I...
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Jun.25.2008
Gentle Readers:
After I wrote my last blog about DeLauer's, I reread it and thought sheesh, you really think are going to care? People will sigh, groan, but they'll just shrug and say what can you do? That's business.
I am so glad I was wrong:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/...
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About Jennifer
Jennifer Gibbons lives in Lafayette, California. She is the grand prize winner of the Red Room Housewarming contest and one of the winners of the Summer Reading Experience Contest. She is working on a young adult novel and a book of essays.
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Causes Jennifer Gibbons Supports
Gilda's Club, Greenpeace, Rosie's Broadway Kids,Westwind Foster Family Agency, Amber Brown Fund, Linda Duncan Fund for Contra Costa Libraries
Jennifer’s Favorite Books
p>To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
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