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Monthly Archives: August 2011
The Best of Travel Writing: Peter Jon Lindberg
By Sarah Jost You read a lot of things in a day. The news, your email, books, magazines, websites. For the most part you just absorb the information. But every so often you come across a bit of writing that … Continue reading
The Urchin Back-to-School Reading List
All right, kids! No more AM Bloody Mary pick-me-ups! No more afternoon tanning sessions on the beach! It’s back to school. Time to forget your locker combo and discover you’re buck-naked in the cafeteria. But, with a little help from … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Literature
Tagged a walk in the woods, andrew laties, Bill Bryson, europe central, how to get lost and found in new zealand, ian frazier, indie bookstores, john w. mcdermott, places strange and quiet, Rebel Bookseller, the great plains, william t. vollman, Wim Wenders
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Biking the Northwest Coast Like an Urchin
[Kindra Covert has known the Urchins since their UMception. Originally from Idaho, Kindra studied at Loyola Marymount University and USC in Los Angeles, lived and worked in London, and spent the past 2 years working at Bennington College in Vermont. … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Guest Urchins, Travel
Tagged cycling, Kindra Covert, Oregon, Washington
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High Noon Urchins
Today’s theme: A Clean Conscience Geo Margaret Ninja Dave Sarah Next week’s theme: Birds of a Feather Join the flock!
That’s What He Said
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In … Continue reading
State of the Arts, Part II
By Sarah Jost Television During the 2009-2010 television season, women made up 29% of the working writers on broadcast programs. This figure dropped to 15% for the 2010-2011 season. Similarly, the number of women directors fell from 16% to 11%. … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Money, Film & Television, Sarah
Tagged actresses, Bossypants, female producers, Mindy Kaling, the office, Tina Fey, women in television, women writers
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State of the Arts
By Sarah Jost Film At the annual SIGGRAPH conference on computer graphics a few weeks ago, Walt Disney Animation Studios chief technical officer Andy Hendrickson discussed the studio’s movie-making strategy: thin storylines + lots of spectacle = high profit margins. … Continue reading
Calling it Quits; Animals Leaving Home for Cooler Temperatures, Study
By Margaret Hedderman The video shows a vacationing woman standing in the shallows. She points at the water rising around her ankles, climbing to her knees, then her thighs. Cut to the camera shaking as her boyfriend runs from the … Continue reading
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: Milton Rokeach’s Psychological Case Study
by Geo Ong In 1959 Milton Rokeach, a social psychologist, brought together three paranoid schizophrenics at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan, in an attempt to treat their delusions. All three men were of different ages and of different backgrounds, … Continue reading
Posted in Geo, Literature
Tagged books, clyde benson, identity, jesus christ, joseph cassel, leon gabor, mental illness, milton rokeach, nonfiction, nyrb classics, paranoid schizophrenia, psychiatry, psychology, schizophrenia, social psychology, the three christs of ypsilanti, ypsilanti state hospital
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The Urchins and Sport
With the exception of Margaret, we admittedly don’t look like the sportiest lot. For some of us, reading hardcover copies of Infinite Jest and running to catch the tube are the closest we’ll ever get to weight lifting or cardio. … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative
Tagged basketball, Bill Bryson, cricket, favourite sport, in a sunburned country, nba, track and field
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