I’m so excited about The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Partner Abuse Within Activist Communities 1(Editors: Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha), I pre-ordered it about three months ago, even though it’s not expected to ship until March 3, 2011! Its topic has been ignored for far too long, and I’m hoping this [...]
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…exactly one day before what is rapidly shaping up to be the largest oil spill in U.S. history1. Idea for my fellow and sister liberals (of which side of the US political spectrum The Nation is billed as a journalistic “flagship”): How about we stop allowing corrupt industry forces, such as British Petroleum, to use [...]
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From a side project, described briefly here. While the idea for the Twitter account is “Shit That Got Me Fired” (@gotmefired, at left), extracting anecdotes from my long march toward unemployability, the broader work in progress will likely have another title (Canned Victoria Shitcanned: A Life in Day Jobs is one I’m kicking around).
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… but the pain is much less (both the physical and the emotional), and I am more at peace. Happy Mother’s Day to all.
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I acquire, for some miraculously cheap price, a vehicle whose most recent purpose has been to serve as a library system’s community bookmobile. I load into it those used books with which I can bear to part, and commence with traveling the country, hitting library and thrift shop sales as I go, while also selling [...]
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Late last night, I learned that an object relevant to the hillbilly side of my family is in the Smithsonian. My mother (who claims the unlikely identity of “half hillbilly, half Italian”), working to arrange her annual visit with the kids, wrote to my husband about all the possibilities. (He read parts of the email [...]
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Long time, no blog. Sorta. As has been the case for some time, most of my (most succinct) material is relegated to my account on Twitter. If you wish, you can follow me at @vmarinelli. To manage my own (notoriously terrible) attention span problems, I can only follow back less than 1% of those who [...]
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Hey y’all! Long time, no blog. (Your patience is appreciated while I’m working on my own book, letting off smaller amounts of verbal steam here and here as I go.) I have, as far as I know1, a whopping total of 55 words in the above anthology, all originating with Twitter. I didn’t send anything [...]
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Note: I know I haven’t blogged here in forever, and this is a weird place to start again, but the following started as a short post on Tumblr, and just got a little too long for that venue, so I decided to actually post something here. The above is a notation from my 11th grade [...]
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I forget sometimes that there are some folks who still read this thing, who do not also follow me on Twitter, so for the benefit of these 3 or 4 people, an update: my husband has a job! (Or will, in 11 days. It’s temp-to-perm, but still promising.) I’ll edit the paypal link in the [...]
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