Links of the Week
Here is a nice piece about a drive through the Delta, written by one of our first-year teachers, Anna Morrison:
The towns, with their quaint names and 50s style slogans, also feel stuck in the past. Hollandale, population 3,000, proclaims itself: "A small town with a BIG welcome!" Continuing my drive through the Delta, I happen upon similarly faded signs for Sledge, Bourbon and Alligator, Mississippi--all which don't quite qualify as "one stoplight towns" because there aren't 500 residents, let alone a stoplight. Hand-painted advertisements implore drivers to turn off; "We buy, sell crack, pecans" says one, clearly unaware of its amusing punctuation error.
The first line from an in-depth, well-written, film analysis piece:
Essentially perfect, Die Hard is much more than an exciting and visually stunning film.
Weaning teenagers off gossip...
Jackson City Council debates an ordnance banning the wearing of baggy and sagging pants.
Is homophobia associated with closeted homosexual arousal? Science says yes.
A day in the life (such as it is) of a Guantanamo detainee:
The end of a day is signaled at 10 p.m. by the arrival of the bedsheet.
But a Guantanamo detainee's day doesn't end with the usual prison ritual of "lights out."
Lights are kept on in the cells 24/7 for what military jailers said were security reasons.
Some prisoners grow their hair long and drape it across their eyes to aid sleeping, as Australian David Hicks, transferred home last year, told his lawyer in explaining his nearly waist-length tresses.
But a Guantanamo detainee's day doesn't end with the usual prison ritual of "lights out."
Lights are kept on in the cells 24/7 for what military jailers said were security reasons.
Some prisoners grow their hair long and drape it across their eyes to aid sleeping, as Australian David Hicks, transferred home last year, told his lawyer in explaining his nearly waist-length tresses.
Writer discovers his sister, in a porn magazine:
The last time I bought a porn magazine was in the fall of 1996. My girlfriend, Amy, had gone down to New York to meet some friends from college. As soon as she was safely out of the parking lot of our apartment building, I got in my car and drove to an adult bookstore in Enfield, CT, a town and a state far enough away from where I lived that I could be sure I wouldn't run into anyone I knew. When I got home, I went straight into our bedroom and lay down on our bed. Then I looked at all the pictures from cover to cover before choosing one woman to focus on.
I was paging through the phone-sex ads when I saw a picture of my sister.
The last two articles were discovered on the website Brijit, which employs a team of readers to go through numerous magazines and newspapers and link to (as well as do a short write-up of) the best pieces.
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