For someone who isn't into math, I'm all about the headline equations lately.

One of the challenges of the world today is that you have to be very thoughtful of your actions in public in a way you may never have had to in the past. Politics in particular have seen how this phenomenon works. Gaffes and debacles that might have blown over ten years ago now have longevity and can go viral before you even realize it. Controlling what happens when you do stupid things is near impossible with technology like Youtube courting millions of users around the globe.

Take Monica Conyers, Detroit city council woman. Her appalling behavior will now serve as a marker for many on what not to do (like calling the bald city council president, "Shrek").

Charlie LeDuff interviews Detroit's Monica Conyers

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oh wait, we were...at this Jens Lekman show. In fact in watching this Joe realized that we were standing next to the guy filming. You can hear us laughing, my screaming and I can even pick out places where you can hear me singing along.

He's telling the story about the song, which is about a time when he went to Berlin to visit his lesbian friend who had lied to her father about him being her fiance--and the embarrassing dinner that ensues.

A Postcard to Nina

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  Jens Lekman at the Paradise
• Battlestar Galactica Season 4 (argh it starts the night of Jens Lekman! TG for TiVO!)
• Colin Meloy at the Somerville Theater
• Planning a little wine tasting party
• SPRING at the Mt. Auburn Cemetery
• Spring in general!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Ice cream season
• Cleaning up the back porch, potting flowers and getting ready for summer.
• Sitting on that same back porch and writing (although half the trees are gone and there is a massive house just feet away from ours now...maybe I'll have to scope out a park)
• Lavinia, by Ursula K. Leguin
• Going to the Langham Chocolate Bar for my birthday in June. I've been wanting to go since I moved here 11 years ago and this year is not going to pass without me going!
• Receiving this in the mail sometime this week!
• And this.

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One of the best mags to come along in a long time and Martha Stewart Living is folding Blueprint only after 8 months. Very very sad.

If you weren't familiar with the mag, it was a younger, hipper version of MSL, geared toward the 20-35 or so demographic. It was smart, beautiful and after the Jan/Feb issue it will be gone.

Thank god that they listened to the readers and decided not to fold it into Weddings! Nothing more annoying than receiving a mag that just goes directly into the recycle bin.

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So here are the obsessions for the fall:

• Heroes
• Journeyman (which is after Heroes and it has Lucius Vorenus in it!)
  
• Smallville
• ANTM
• Project Runway (which will start Nov. 14)

So what does that mean about me? I like SciFi and fashion?? Talk about some irony, huh?

I'm very excited about this:

As fans of Battlestar Galatica get ready for the November 24 premiere of the telemovie "Razor" -- which will delve into the backstory of the Battlestar Pegasus, her crew, and Admiral Cain (Michelle Forbes) -- the network has another surprise. The movie will be preceded by an 8-week series of "mini-sodes." Filmed in conjunction with "Razor," the two- to three-minute installments will air weekly in primetime on SCI FI Channel, and then be available online at SCIFI.com. The promotional shorts will premiere in October.

The first one appeared last night and you can catch it here. No one has YouTubed it yet or I would have just embedded it...

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were born in 1989, the year I graduated from high school. Wow.

• What Berlin wall?
• They never “rolled down” a car window.
• Nelson Mandela has always been free and a force in South Africa.
• “Off the hook” has never had anything to do with a telephone.
• Wal-Mart has always been a larger retailer than Sears and has always employed more workers than GM.
• Al Gore has always been running for president or thinking about it.
• They were too young to understand Judas Priest’s subliminal messages.
• They were introduced to Jack Nicholson as “The Joker.”
• Women’s studies majors have always been offered on campus.
• High definition television has always been available.
• Microbreweries have always been ubiquitous.
• Time has always worked with Warner.
• Tiananmen Square is a 2008 Olympics venue, not the scene of a massacre.
• MTV has never featured music videos.
• The World Wide Web has been an online tool since they were born.
• Burma has always been Myanmar.
• Dilbert has always been ridiculing cubicle culture.
• Food packaging has always included nutritional labeling.

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