Saturday, November 24, 2007
News: Blogging Contest for Serious Cash
Dear Blogit Bloggers: Maybe you know about this, maybe you don't. I just got this link from another writing site tpday. Apparently, there’s this crazy contest where some amateur blogger is going to get paid to “go pro” for a year at a salary of $80,000, issued bi-weekly. You can read more about it...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Zine Ad
Author’s Note: This is my first ‘zine ad. I made it for the UMass holiday craft fair. What do you think? Are you an engineer in love with an English major? Do you need to find a cool, trendy gift for your 14 year old sister who thinks she’s Sylvia Plath? Need some help coming out? Require lots of...
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Monday, November 5, 2007
Movie Review: Eight Below
It's the story of eight dogs and their human handler who carry scientists around in Alaska. A scientist gets injured and the main character has to rescue him. They can't take the dogs with them when they escape, with other scientists, on a plane. For six months, the dogs (well some of them) survive...
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Sunday, October 21, 2007
Movie Review: In Pot We Trust
This is a Showtime Original Documentary that interviews DEA agents, doctors (on both sides of the issue), a clean cut pro-cannabis lobbyist (who looks like a young Republican), cannabis patients, and stereotypical dirty hippies in what I feel is a very unbiased view. As a person with Cerebral Palsy,...
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Movie Review: Failure to Lanch
I recorded this movie on my DVR. I thought it was just going to be a cute movie and I love Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew McConaughey; they're both so cute. This little bi gi girl is very happy. This story is basically that of Trip (a cute, fun-loving,35-year-old man with a job and functional...
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Commentary: My Letter to MV Transportation
Author's Note: My day sucked March 7, 2007 To Whom It May Concern: I am writing because I am deeply concerned about by ride back from National Seating and Mobility wheelchair repair today. I recognize that MV transportation went out of their way to accommodate me in retrieving both my manual and my...
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Sunday, February 18, 2007
Question of the Week (Sorry for Being Three Weeks Late)
Author's Note: Someone else posted this question on Mylot. I answered it yesterday and stole it to my question of the week. I await your answers! Question of the Week If you could invite 10 people (living, dead, or even imaginary) to dinner who they be and why? My Answer: 1. Jesus Christ- because...
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Movie Review: Forbidden Wedding
I recorded the documentary on the Sundance Channel some months ago and just it off my DVR and recorded on VHS today. I tells the true story of Hadir, a Brazilian disability rights activist and paraplegic and Mara, his personal care assistant, and their desire to get married in their local Catholic...
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Saturday, February 17, 2007
Movie Review: The Man Who Sued God
The Man Who Sued God is a cute film about an Australian fisherman who's boat gets struck by lightening. When his insurance company refuses to pay siting "Act of God" he sues the churches and temples in his area. Along the way, he returns to the prctice of law which he left to become a fisherman and...
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Monday, January 22, 2007
Question of the Week:
Who do you bank with and why? My answer: I bankwith North Brookgield Saving Bank bank because they are a local community bank and the staff treats me like a real person, which has not always been my bank related experience. What's Yours?
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