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Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.
04/08/09

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My little brother vacuums when he's bored or stressed. He's 16.
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Flackette Goes Retro
04/08/09

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My boyfriend is obsessed with the cleanliness of his floors. He even rents the carpet shampooing machine every year or so. Me? I occasionally notice that dust bunnies are taking over and do what vacuuming I can without having to actually move anything.
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MissIng
04/08/09

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I go into a happy state of mind watching my fiance vacuum. Sans shirt even better.
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badmutha
04/08/09

@MissIng: I get that way about Mr. Badmutha ironing.
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Gretchen is a new kitten mom!
04/08/09

@MissIng: I've told Mr. G that if he really, really wants me turned on and ripping his clothes off he should try mopping the kitchen floor.
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lola82
04/08/09

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To be fair...she did say some of her male colleagues are denied the pleasure.

Just sayin'.

But while I love her writing, I'm not terribly fond of her. She was a visiting lecturer & taught one of the required Rhetoric courses. It was AWFUL. She's not much of a people person. Terrible name dropping. And she was the only teacher who failed to cancel lecture on 9/11. Nope, she spent 2 hours talking about Proust & his stupid cookie.
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Flackette Goes Retro
04/08/09

@lola82: Well in fairness, I was in school in DC at the time and went to class because it never occurred to me that class would be canceled on 9/11. This may say more about me than her though.
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hippichx sez PEACE PLEASE
04/08/09

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not only do i hate vacuuming, but i hate carpet. dust mites freak me out.... although there is something to be said for doing the dishes, but hippiedude usually beats me to it.
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SylvanSylph
04/08/09

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She clearly hasn't heard about the pleasure men can get from car wash vacuums!
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desertbloom79
04/08/09

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This is how I feel about mowing. I have an unnatural love of mowing the lawn.
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badmutha
04/08/09

@desertbloom79: Gardening does it for me. Dig,dig,dig, dig, plant, plant,plant, pat, pat,pat.
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Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.
04/08/09

@desertbloom79: Oh man, me too. Especially when the grass gets all long and gnarly and it's like you're waving a magic wand over it that makes it short and neat.
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LaComtesse
04/08/09

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I go into my happy state of mind when I go grocery shopping late at night. The aisles are empty, I can plan weekly meals and think about food. It's like yoga for me.
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Gretchen is a new kitten mom!
04/08/09

@LaComtesse: I used to enjoy that too, but here in Lower Crapovia the groceries are filled with rednecks picking up cheap beer and deli chicken after 2nd shift lets out. You end up getting stuck in line behind them waiting for the U-scan, while you listen to them bitch to their tube-topped girlfriends about what a dick the foreman is because he, like, expects them to STACK BOXES in the warehouse and how so and so said you just can't trust this Obama guy because, well, you know....

I'll go back to shopping earlier and dealing with the Blue (haired) Crush, thank you.
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MyNameIsChris
04/08/09

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To DeLillo, the sound of a vacuum is just White Noise.
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TawdryHepburn
04/08/09

@MyNameIsChris: DeLillo humor FTW. I would've really been impressed if you made a Mao II reference.
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katie.scarlett.o'hara
04/08/09

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My twelfth grade English teacher tried to tell us Joyce Carol Oates is a man. This was when I knew she was an idiot.
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badmutha
04/08/09

@katie.scarlett.o'hara: Like, was she being all Austin Powers-ish when she said it? Maybe she was just being funny? You know, "Joyce Carol Oates is a Man, baby."
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Flackette Goes Retro
04/08/09

@katie.scarlett.o'hara: I saw her in person a few months ago when she did a reading at the university where I work. She is definitely not a man. She does, however, do a great impression of Emily Dickinson as a robot.
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katie.scarlett.o'hara
04/08/09

@badmutha: No, she was absolutely serious. She had no idea she was a woman. I think she might have been confused with James Joyce.
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tscheese
04/08/09

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Tscheese abhors a vacuum.
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megnificent
04/08/09

@tscheese: Vacuums abhor Tscheese. Gets all gummed up in the filter.
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Gretchen is a new kitten mom!
04/08/09

@tscheese: Is that why I still have cheddar stuck in the kitchen rug?
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viklane
04/08/09

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I can't be the only person who has never, ever liked a single thing I've read by Joyce Carol Oates.
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RomanaTwo
04/08/09

@viklane: You aren't. I have declared her my mortal enemy.
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Kivrin
04/08/09

@viklane: I've purposely never read a single thing by Joyce Carol Oates.
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TawdryHepburn
04/08/09

@viklane: Embrace it, as I do. Some people will look at you askance, but really, her writing is Just. Not. That. Good. (With the glaring exception of the wonderful "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?") Instead of Oates' inflated canon, my shelves have Joan Didion, Ann Beattie, Mary Gaitskill, Mary McCarthy, Julia Glass, Susan Choi, on and on and on. Also, this NYT comment does not seem particularly clever, and is the sort of "tee-hee men and women are different!1!!1!!" that I so dislike.
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TawdryHepburn
04/08/09

@RomanaTwo: Hearted for the mortal-enemy declaration. :) My mortal enemy is Garrison Keillor, but I ain't got much love for JCO, neithers.
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NellMood
04/08/09

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I can't figure out how I feel about this statement. Is the implication that there's some inherent house-work love in women? Is it a slight on men, or just on male writers of a certain age? Someone help me out.
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greengrey
04/08/09

@NellMood: Is the implication that there's some inherent house-work love in women

That's what I got from the statement...
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NellMood
04/08/09

@greengrey: I don't get why she singled out Roth and Delillo, though.
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Samanthrax
04/08/09

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I wonder if Philip Roth and Don DeLillo are ever awarded the pleasure of thinking before they speak.
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Mkp-hearts-NYC
04/08/09

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Well sure if they're going to use those penis-deactivated vacuums...
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