http://readmaura.com by Maura Pennington Fri, 25 May 2012 02:59:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en if you open the current issue of forbes (june 4, justin bieber on cover) to page 30 you will find ME. http://readmaura.com/2012/05/23/i-can-almost-portray-myself-in-les-flaneurs-now-almost/ At trivia tonight, way too many teams put that the singer who based his song "Subterranean Homesick Blues" on Chuck Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business" was...Radiohead.  I understand where they got the idea but, I'm sorry, LEAST ACCEPTABLE ANSWER IN THE HISTORY OF ANSWERS.  Just leave it blank if you're ... http://readmaura.com/2012/05/09/nope-doesnt-count/ civilization is in decline* i have been listening to my oldies station non-stop. i just want to walk around with this song playing on a loop and pretend like all the nonsense revolutions of the 60s never happened. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8PhP3yIlRw *don't believe me?  well let me give you a little perspective.  in 1955 when rebel ... http://readmaura.com/2012/05/02/why-are-we-even-bothering/ Six more movies starring the Hulk in some capacity?  Look, Hollywood, let's just leave him alone for awhile.  If you keep reminding people how cool it would be to turn into a destructive monster whenever they got angry, they are going to be too disappointed with reality to be productive. http://readmaura.com/2012/05/01/advice/ here's the thing about e.l. james and her hot-selling kinky trilogy that i won't touch in a million years because i have accidentally stumbled on WAY too many stories like that: FANFICTION HAS BEEN FREE AND EASY FOR, like, EVER. seriously.  you could have been reading it all this time!  it ... http://readmaura.com/2012/04/24/oh-general-public-never-quite-getting-it-right/ "I'm overwhelmed by suffering, which deprives me of the ability to think and reason.  Maybe by obeying you I'm committing a fatal, irrevocable error that will horrify me all my life, but in the fog of pain that robs me of strength the only thing I can do now is ... http://readmaura.com/2012/04/23/theres-no-excuse/ i was talking about the term "writer" with my brother briefly today. i told him that if solzhenitsyn and pasternak are writers, i can't possibly be called one.  their writing is necessary to humanity.  what they suffered for their writing gives them a label i'll never be worthy of.  if there's ... http://readmaura.com/2012/04/19/i-am-not-a-writer/ the phenomenon of 100% knowing the answer to something but not being able to mentally access it.  i'm going to call it: intelligent ignorance.  it happens a lot at trivia and the revelation of the answer always involves a head smack.  well so there's one big mystery in my life ... http://readmaura.com/2012/04/18/there-should-be-a-name-for/ the most culturally significant couplet in any disney song is: "when you wish upon a star/makes no difference who you are." dreaming is an equal opportunity activity.  anyone can imagine a new reality, anyone can be creative.  the distinction is that not everyone actually creates. only a few people make something out ... http://readmaura.com/2012/04/17/dreaming-and-doing/ I have been on a quest to recapture my childhood pretty much since my childhood ended and there has been, up to this point at least, a key piece missing: the soundtrack.  I used to listen to the oldies station non-stop, but it changed to playing "classic rock that no ... http://readmaura.com/2012/04/10/success/