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Jael is tired of being stereotyped as just another novelist/poet/former English teacher/tour guide/"Jeopardy!" semifinalist/bellydancing editor-in-chief with an MFA who was once an overachieving oboe-playing alto newspaper editor valedictorian from Iowa. She was also captain of the football cheerleading squad.
editor-in-chief
member since 9.1.99
dob:
6.10.73
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another summertime smorgasbord
7.3.09
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It's been quite a while since I did a summertime pop culture roundup. Yet summer is such a perfect and weird and known-but-unknown pop culture time, it really lends itself to this kind of thing: a good look that doesn't look too close.
(Look too close and it'll burn your eyes out. I mean, really, do you want to analyze the lyrics of "American Boy"? Talk about the theme of how technology dehumanizes us as seen in Transformers 2: The Transformening? Write a scathing review of the latest Nora Roberts? Summer is not for such things.)
1. My inner 17-year-old girl is having a ball with "So You Think You Can Dance." I squee. I rewatch. I read message boards where people report on Nigel's tweeting. I leap on spoilers. (ZOMG Karla and Vitolio are getting the quickstep? Rilly? Rilly rilly? ZOMG that is SO UNFAIR I am totally going to power vote for them WTF!) On the flip side, it's probably my adult persona asserting herself when I realize that the d...
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