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  1. RT @brainpicker London Unfurled: An Obsessive 37-Foot Accordion Drawing bit.ly/H8WYxI 7:43 PM Apr 2nd via TweetMeme
  2. #Ididnotreport when I was in college and almost raped when friend and I stupidly hitchhiked to antiwar rally. Called cops, who laughed at us 9:43 PM Mar 18th via web
  3. #ididnotreport when my older brother and his friends (~10 yrs old; I was 7) pulled down my pants to see what girls looked like "down there." 9:41 PM Mar 18th via web
  4. #ididnotreport The late teenage neighbor who exposed himself to me when I was 5. Too ashamed. 9:39 PM Mar 18th via web
  5. New "Titanic moving, exciting & full of excellent Julian Fellowesisms. HMS Downton, maybe, but Downton was brilliant?" huff.to/wWuBaJ 3:27 PM Mar 16th via The Huffington Post
  6. Julian Fellowes based @theLadyGrantham on great aunt who was taught to make polite conversation w/ shrubs in the garden independent.co.uk/news/people/di… 6:27 PM Mar 13th via Tweet Button
  7. Love this: RT @nydailynews Going on a 'hemingway': The Urban Dictionary history of Western literature | New .. nydn.us/wxdmJ2 3:28 AM Mar 13th via TweetMeme
  8. Devil made you do it. RT @amydezellar I'm hypocritically doing that thing I hate: talking about a creative work I haven't read/seen. 12:12 PM Mar 10th via web
  9. Re #50Shades success: Grey is masterful lover, not so much dominant (always asks permission) as skilled--her pleasure more evident than his, 10:24 AM Mar 10th via web
  10. @amydezellar Because this one does the same (or similar) thing 'better'? That's my theory, anyway. 9:13 AM Mar 10th via web in reply to amydezellar
  11. .@andrewtshaffer @amydezellar @psynde Seriously? Then why do (very) few fanfic writers get rich & famous? Comes down to the book in the end 9:09 AM Mar 10th via web in reply to andrewtshaffer
  12. @amydezellar I think there's a why: like Twilight, at once transgressive, sexy, & safe. 9:03 AM Mar 10th via web in reply to amydezellar
  13. Perfect. Please, sir, I want some more: MT @andrewtshaffer Ch 1, Pt 2 of "Fifty-One Shades: A Parody" now up on blog: bit.ly/xqPuNm 8:58 AM Mar 10th via web
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