Comments on: links for 2008-04-08 http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2008/04/08/links-for-2008-04-08/ Making the baby Jesus cry since 2002. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:13:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Amber http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2008/04/08/links-for-2008-04-08/#comment-19229 Amber Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:05:23 +0000 http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2008/04/08/links-for-2008-04-08/#comment-19229 Oops, sorry Charles, for some reason your comment got stuck in the spam filter. <blockquote>So, even when someone goes through with that moralistic narrative of changing their life, doing the moral thing, leaving behind the sinful ways, and becoming a respectable member of society–so the narrative goes–that person still is neither redeemable nor free of that past. </blockquote> Exactly. Once you've done it, you're marked for life. Oops, sorry Charles, for some reason your comment got stuck in the spam filter.

So, even when someone goes through with that moralistic narrative of changing their life, doing the moral thing, leaving behind the sinful ways, and becoming a respectable member of society–so the narrative goes–that person still is neither redeemable nor free of that past.

Exactly. Once you’ve done it, you’re marked for life.

]]> By: ouyangdan http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2008/04/08/links-for-2008-04-08/#comment-19157 ouyangdan Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:11:32 +0000 http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2008/04/08/links-for-2008-04-08/#comment-19157 (followed the trackback from my site! thanks!) the Starbucks siren was "updated" b/c she was seen as "too risque" for people when the company began to boom. the original siren is coming back, they believe it is OK to be risque, and you can find her on merchandise, and all hot cups in the stores again. personally, i am a huge fan of the original siren (FTR, i knew what "those things around her head" were, even b/f i worked there. ;) i am going to have to poke around here a little more! (followed the trackback from my site! thanks!)

the Starbucks siren was “updated” b/c she was seen as “too risque” for people when the company began to boom. the original siren is coming back, they believe it is OK to be risque, and you can find her on merchandise, and all hot cups in the stores again.

personally, i am a huge fan of the original siren (FTR, i knew what “those things around her head” were, even b/f i worked there. ;)

i am going to have to poke around here a little more!

]]> By: Charles R http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2008/04/08/links-for-2008-04-08/#comment-19155 Charles R Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:30:11 +0000 http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2008/04/08/links-for-2008-04-08/#comment-19155 Also, I found <a href="http://hamptonroads.com/2008/04/kellam-high-school-teacher-tied-escort-services" title="Teacher has phone numbers previously used for escort service" rel="nofollow">this article</a> on the website for the Virginian-Pilot newspaper. The article is about a teacher, just starting out her first year, who is found to <i>have been</i> involved in an escort service. She is no longer associated with the escort service's operations. <i>“The best thing I can do right now is call and resign my job,” she said.</i> <i>The best thing</i>, according to how she interprets the possible and actual reactions to this discovery. So, <i>even when</i> someone goes through with that moralistic narrative of changing their life, doing the moral thing, leaving behind the sinful ways, and becoming a respectable member of society--so the narrative goes--that person <i>still</i> is neither redeemable nor free of that past. If the platitudes don't even work the way they are supposed to, it is no wonder people leave them behind. Also, I found this article on the website for the Virginian-Pilot newspaper. The article is about a teacher, just starting out her first year, who is found to have been involved in an escort service. She is no longer associated with the escort service’s operations.

“The best thing I can do right now is call and resign my job,” she said.

The best thing, according to how she interprets the possible and actual reactions to this discovery. So, even when someone goes through with that moralistic narrative of changing their life, doing the moral thing, leaving behind the sinful ways, and becoming a respectable member of society–so the narrative goes–that person still is neither redeemable nor free of that past. If the platitudes don’t even work the way they are supposed to, it is no wonder people leave them behind.

]]> By: Charles R http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2008/04/08/links-for-2008-04-08/#comment-19154 Charles R Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:21:32 +0000 http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2008/04/08/links-for-2008-04-08/#comment-19154 It's interesting that the <i>second</i> choice for first place in the story "Virginia Teen Censored For Nude Self Portrait" was of a nude, pregnant torso and that was also rejected by the newspaper as inappropriate for a student art contest. It's as though the Virgin and the Mother were both rejected as acceptable female forms to present as art. I wonder what was the first place piece? It’s interesting that the second choice for first place in the story “Virginia Teen Censored For Nude Self Portrait” was of a nude, pregnant torso and that was also rejected by the newspaper as inappropriate for a student art contest. It’s as though the Virgin and the Mother were both rejected as acceptable female forms to present as art.

I wonder what was the first place piece?

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