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“The Valley Of Unrest” By Edgar Allan Poe

This poem represents the relationship between life and death. It shows the stress which you receive when you die when you live and when you pass. The poem also is saying that death can come to both sides. When someone dies you feel their pain and their sadness.

Vin Diesel Gets Intimate with Karaoke Cover

Vin Diesel Sings Rihanna. I admit it. I am the last person who saw the Vin Diesel singing Rihanna video. “The Fast & Furious” star decided to cover Rihanna’s single “Stay” during a Valentine’s Day karaoke jam. Vin Diesel has a massive Facebook audience, counting some 38 million fans. The Rihanna post alone scored over 170,000 likes, 18,000 comments […]

Liberace – Lawsuits and Allegations of Homosexuality

I am watching “Behind the Candleabra: My Life with Liberace” and couldn’t help diving into the backstory of Liberace and allegations of homosexuality. In the words of another 60’s icon: “fascinating.” via Wikipedia. Liberace’s fame in the United States was matched for a time in the United Kingdom. In 1956, an article in the Daily Mirror by […]

My Two Favorite Things: Max the Pitbull and Michigan Football

Go Blue!

Peace Corps. Begins Accepting Applications from Same Sex Couples

via Queerty. For the first time since it was founded in 1961, the Peace Corps has announced that the organization will begin accepting applications for same-sex couples to serve together overseas. Officials from the Peace Corps believe the change in policy will diversify the pool of applicants wishing to do humanitarian work abroad, and toughen the competitiveness of the […]

25 Things A Dad Would Like His Son to Know

    It’s harder to take a punch than to throw one. Find the people who make you laugh and follow them around like a golden retriever. Laughing is like a vitamin.  You can never get enough of it. A guy who hugs a lot is comfortable in his own skin. Read poetry. There’s nothing […]

Brevity in Communication: Twitter vs the telegram

Originally posted on The Victorianachronists:
While Twitter has become a wildly popular new means of communication, it has not been without its critics.  Questions like, “What can we say that is meaningful in 140 characters?” and “What are we losing by keeping our social interactions so brief?” have abounded since Twitter’s inception.  The value of…

12 Movies Curious Gay Kids Watched In The ’90s

via BuzzFeed. 12 Movies Curious Gay Kids Watched In The ’90s If you were young and figuring yourself out, these were the flicks you paid extra attention to. We might not have been out in the ’90s — we might not even have realized we were gay — but there were certain movies that captured […]

Famous Authors’ Handwritten Outlines for Great Works of Literature

I was trying to figure out how to preface this blog post. The most effective way, I could think, was to look back to the source and reference how Wikipedia defines Literature. “Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written work and can, in some circumstances, refer exclusively to published sources. The […]

The Dogsology

Originally posted on Farmlet:
Ruby starts a nervous rhythmic licking in her bed, which is right next to the couch where I read.  Lick lick lick lick lick, her tongue shoots out like a snake.  Air licks.  Very loud.  She’s a mostly deaf twelve-year-old Golden Retriever and she can’t help starting these tics.  But she can…