When Josie’s feeling snuffly we pj for a while, and sit, cheek to cheek, to watch a Muppet video or two, an Ernie song and encore, and most recently, this excellent Justice video for On’N’On.
petersheik: Haute. vicemag: There’s a new Justice video!
“No one was really prepared for the number of seriously wounded survivors,” says Dr. Ronald Glasser, the author of a book on battlefield medicine. Wounded veterans have swamped the VA system, leading to a backlog of almost 900,000 disability claims. Vets complain of a burdensome bureaucracy, lost paperwork, redundant medical exams, and inconsistent diagnoses. “You fight for your country, then come home and have to fight against your own country for the benefits you were promised,” said Clay Hunt, a Marine sniper who was shot in the wrist in Iraq, and had to wait 10 months for disability checks. Depressed, divorced, and haunted by the loss of several close friends in battle, Hunt killed himself last March.
Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are returning home with unprecedented physical and mental wounds, and many aren’t getting the care they need.
Everybody has The Outfit—the outfit they bought for America. The students who have lived in the country longer have learned how to blend in better, but each September on the first day of school, the new kids are easy to spot. Some arrive in their native dress, like the Bangladeshi girls in colorful shalwar kameez, or the African boy who walked the halls in goatskin sandals.
Brooke Hauser, author of The New Kids, takes us into the hallways of Prospect Heights’s International High School, home to a widely diverse student body.
My friend and a discussion of her book next weekend Jan 29 2012 1:30PM @ the Brooklyn Central Library, Dweck Center
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Tweets from kids trying to use Wikipedia for their homework—and failing. SOPA!
[h/t gangster curator Katie Notopoulos]](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxzcrtxnzC1qzs5cqo1_500.png)
Tweets from kids trying to use Wikipedia for their homework—and failing. SOPA!
(via theweekmagazine)
Grab You - Austin Kleon
Update for Ellen
Things That Make Georgia Laugh
- Stuffing socks into Daddy’s mouth
- Drinking - and then choking on - bubble bath from a lima bean-shaped bath toy
- Stepping on Josie’s face
Things That Make Josie Laugh
- You
- Me
- This
- That
- Up
- Down
- Mommy’s bellybutton
Aaron and I are working on a “He’s Got” version of this song/video.
Eureka
- aaron: i figured out how to get into the water
- me: you mean instead of using a water prosthetic?
- aaron: yeah
- me: a wheel barrel?
- aaron: close
- me: have someone drag you on a tarp?
- aaron: (incredulous) no!
- me: [waiting]
- aaron: have someone give me a piggyback ride
- me: like georgia?
- aaron: [incredulous] no! Like josh!
- me: [waiting]
- aaron: someone big and strong. tara's boyfriend would be ideal
"Fuck that."
— Aaron, to me, accompanying by the only scoff I’ve ever heard from him, after I said I wanted our girls to say Yes, Sir and M’am.
so aaron has a friend who, at their graduate program end of year megathon reading, read, instead of five minutes from “a forthcoming novel”, a list of unrealized story ideas.
one of them was something like, “a girl who only refers to her mom as ‘the mother’.”
i can’t stop laughing.
i can almost always categorize EVERYTHING as being either josie or georgia (Van Halen: Josie, french toast: Georgia, The Great Plains: Josie, planets: Georgia), but I have NO IDEA who this little bugger is!
mabelmoments: Photograph: David Wachenfeld
(Source: Guardian, via allcreatures)
