Somewhere Quiet

QotD: Starting from Scratch

2009-12-18T06:19:11Z

What would it take to get you to start a new life on a new world? Sponsored by AVATAR. In theaters December 18. Buy tickets now. Nothing short of a catastrophic natural or political disaster. The vast majority of my ancestors were not explorers;...

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QotD: The Worst Book Ever

2009-12-16T23:41:50Z

What's the worst book you've ever read? If a book is really, really crappy I will put it down. Crappy as in bad prose and a boring plot. So "worst" to me means books that I have read all the way through and still hated. Wuthering Heights is def...

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QotD: Friends for a Day

2009-12-14T21:18:39Z

If you could hang out with any movie character for a day, whom would you choose as your sidekick? Sponsored by The Official AVATAR Community on TypePad. See AVATAR in theaters December 18, 2009. Listen, "Avatar Community", if I get to hang out...

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QotD: My Favorite Movie Quote

2009-12-14T21:16:19Z

What’s your favorite movie quote of all time? Sponsored by The Official AVATAR Community on TypePad. See AVATAR in theaters December 18, 2009. Perhaps not of all time, but certainly of Christmas time: "Fra-GEE-lay....must be Italian!" Followed...

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QotD: The One Movie Everyone Should See

2009-12-14T21:12:15Z

What one film do you think everyone should see? Sponsored by The Official AVATAR Community on TypePad. See AVATAR in theaters December 18, 2009. Oh lord, so many. Right now I'm in the mood for The Fugitive, though, so I'll go with that one. "C...

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Another Carol

2009-12-08T20:14:14Z

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Light

2009-12-07T22:02:55Z

I've always been interested in other people's stories and problems. Not in a busybody way, just in a curious way. That's why I am a psychology major, and it's why I watch shows about drug addiction, mental illness, and physical disease. The last ...

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Hello, Vox neighbors! I'm back...

2009-12-07T00:20:04Z

Hello, Vox neighbors! I'm back from a class trip to D.C., which was a wonderful week all around. It was very, very busy, but we did a lot of sightseeing and a lot of volunteering. Now I'm back with about 10 hours of sleep debt and a lingering co...

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National Adoption Week

2009-11-10T22:05:55Z

It's National Adoption Week. I found out by accident; for my family every week is Adoption Week! I came across this article on Google News. The article talks about the complex reality of adoption: The British Association of Adoption and Fosterin...

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If I had a million dollars...

2009-11-09T01:20:05Z

...I would buy everything in this store. I look at their website and salivate. I walk into their store and get weak at the knees. If I found some genie, my third wish would be to get a hundred-thousand dollar giftcard to this store, right after w...

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