Word: womb
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...unfortunately, I don’t think I will find many job openings for a video game beta tester or owner of the Boston Red Sox. I get nervous when I hear other students talk about their future careers as if they were I-Banking while still in the womb. Walk into the Coop these days and all you see are books with titles like (I am not making this up): “Sell Yourself!: Master the Job Interview Process.” As a twenty-year-old college student, I had no idea that...
...taking the journey to get there. This sense was heightened when I got married and got pregnant the first time, by which time technology had made the philosopher's hypothetical real: I heard the heartbeat, strained to see the image on the ultrasound, made out the features, like my womb had a window-and grieved at a miscarriage. If life, at this tiny, unimaginable stage, was a life worth mourning, was it not one worth respecting, and protecting as well? And then when my daughters did come, and the abortion question refracted through both the miracle of their births...
...create a pan-nationalist militia by adopting more international children.Further, sometimes in the world of pretty people and their distracting ways, we just need someone to tell us like it is. As great publications like “Star” were proclaiming a Lachey/Simpson offspring in the womb even after the split was made public, Gawker.com ripped off the band-aid months ago, with headlines such as, “We Don’t Care Who Says What. Nick and Jessica Are Fucking Over. Just Accept It.”Keep listening, oh little ones, for there...
...more elaborate symphonics, more accomplished musicianship, and lyrics in a language that’s comprehensible to me. So what is the Sigur Rós mystique? It became obvious to me at their show on the 15th. Their music is the sonic equivalent of going into the womb...
When you’re in the womb, all you need to hear is a slow thumping and the muffled soundtrack of a language you can’t understand yet. The band has even invented a funny little way to put us all into that irretrievable state of nature. They write a bunch of their songs in “Hopelandish,” a nonsense language that’s intended to allow the listener to interpret the lyrics however he or she so desires...