February 2012
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"At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13,... →
motherjones: The actual Most Interesting Man in the World died last week. If you haven’t taken a minute to read his obituary, please do so now.
Feb 20th
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January 2012
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The DC Rollergirls: What You Missed December 10! →
dcrg: Cherry Blossom Bombshells 120 - 57 DC DemonCats By Special Correspondent: Rock Clobster The first bout of Saturday’s double header at the D.C. Armory pitted the Cherry Blossom Bombshells against the DC DemonCats. Both teams were hoping for a win to stay competitive in Season Six, the…
Jan 17th
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Jan 7th
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December 2011
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Roller Derby Break
I haven’t skated in a couple of weeks—and have done blissfully little roller derby “work.” I miss roller skating, I miss DC, I miss my teammates and league mates. I miss that feeling… Practice picks up next week—I will only have a couple of weeks in January to skate before my job wants to kill me and I have to take an LOA. Come on February!!!
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 8th
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November 2011
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Nov 15th
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Nov 12th
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Nov 7th
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Bout Bout Bout Time!
Having my second Home Team Bout of the season tomorrow! My *NEW* team, the Majority Whips are taking on my *OLD* team, the Cherry Blossom Bombshells! I am excited for this bout, though it will be a tough one.
Nov 4th
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Vote for Lesbians! →
Some of my friends are in a contest to try to win a wedding dress and tux for their LESBIAN wedding. They are pretty close to the top. Might be nice to see a lesbian couple win something like this.
Nov 2nd
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Nov 2nd
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Bout Week!
Bout Week! Bout Week! Bout Week!
Nov 1st
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Nov 1st
October 2011
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Age Analyzer? →
madillac: mollymurphs: sonicbloom11: semicullen: littlespot: The AgeAnalyzer thinks http://littlespot.tumblr.com is written by someone 26-35 years old. LOL… this thing thinks that I am 26-35 years old… That is awesome… since I am 42. Go here to try it out on…  I got 51-65 years old—maybe that is in Tumblr years?
Oct 31st
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How my morning has started...
Me: Dear Person Who Keeps Me Employed, After going through site X, it appears that they have been making a lot of changes to the new structure.
Person Who Keeps Me Employed: Do you mean they are making changes to their content in the old structure?
Me: (Banging head on desk)
Oct 27th
Oct 26th
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Oct 26th
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We're a Culture, Not a Costume →
danceswithfaeriesunderthemoon: peacelovemusichappyness: saucy-sarah: There’s more: Students Teaching About Racism in Society is a Student Org at Ohio University. I’m the President, any questions… MESSAGE ME! :)
Oct 21st
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Oct 20th
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Oct 19th
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Emptyage: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It →
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…  I’m not even a Gen Xer—but close.
Oct 19th
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Oct 19th
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The Derby 15
When someone joins roller derby, they do it for all kinds of reasons. Make new (female) friends, be active, they miss team sports, they want to be part of something, they saw a bout/Whip It/Heard someone on the train and are already in love with it. Another reason that a lot of women join roller derby is to be more fit and in shape. Maybe even to lose weight. If you were not very active before...
Oct 18th
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Oct 15th
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Feeling a little emotionally fragile today...
So, I think to make myself feel better—I’ll go hang out, naked, with a bunch of Korean women.
Oct 14th
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BREATHE DERBY, LIVE DERBY, BE DERBY.
Love Derby.
Oct 14th
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Great DC Rollergirls Home Team Bout Recap →
Oct 11th
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Oct 11th
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Oct 10th
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Bout tomorrow night...
I am so crazy excited and nervous about our first home season bout tomorrow. This is just the beginning of everything! Roller derby makes me happy.
Oct 9th
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Oct 6th
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Oct 5th
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Oct 5th
September 2011
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Sep 30th
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Draft Tonight
Ok, the draft is tonight. Part of being a team captain is going to the draft and handpicking skaters for our team. I *secretly* love the draft-but it makes me so nervous. My stomach is all a-flutter. It sucks because we have more skaters than room on the teams—so there will be plenty of skaters still unteamed. Having been in that situation-I know what that feels like. Good luck to...
Sep 29th
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The DC Rollergirls: DC Rollergirls Season 6... →
So excited for this season! dcrg: Introducing…the Majority Whips! Photo (c) Allison Ricker The DC Rollergirls are growing! Season 6 marks the debut of our newest team, the Majority Whips. You may recognize a few familiar faces on the team—it’s led by Scare Force One’s Lois Slain and the Cherry Blossom Bombshells’ Styx…
Sep 29th
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Reasons I love derby, part 1
OK, me and derby have had a lot of ups and downs. Early on, I had some doubts if I was even cut out for this. But going in to the new season…I really love derby. Because: I had the best 30th birthday party. I had so many people from derby drive all the way out to my house (it’s pretty far out there). That bout during my first season when my skirt fell off—so I just skated the...
Sep 28th
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Spaghetti for Dinner
Must be a scrimmage night-eating like an old lady. Gotta leave the house in an hour.
Sep 27th
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Sep 27th
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Slugs N' Kisses from Snap →
Snap-You are totally big time! osnapscarlet: I had to dig this up after Styx posted about derby this morning. Written 4/08 Slugs N’ Kisses I snapped my finger in half and cracked my butt. But let’s start at the very beginning: this is the story of my love affair with Rollerderby. Once upon a time, in a land filled with Hill Staffers,…
Sep 26th
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Sometimes, you aren't good enough
Somewhere, in one of the internet graveyards lies a private post I wrote on MySpace after not getting drafted on to a home team. My derby career has not been filled with glory. I started skating in March 2007 when I heard there was a DC league being formed. I started going to open skate at the roller rink 30 minutes away. After about a month, I bought skates. July 5th, I started showing up at...
Sep 26th
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Sep 14th
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Nightmare on 95! →
Cannot wait for all of the derby this weekend!
Sep 13th
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Last Night Home for Awhile
Last night home making a real dinner before derby takes over my life until next Monday. For dinner tonight we are having homemade Madras Vegetables (cabbage and peas) and Gobi Aloo! The potatoes are boiling right now, then everything gets mixed up. Yum!
Sep 12th
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Sep 9th
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Sep 9th
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Apparently when you cut funding for fire... →
I am in love with motherjones’ reporters.  motherjones: Who knew?
Sep 7th
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That was a bad jam...
Last night I had a bad jam. A real bad jam. I will preface this by saying that this was my first full contact/full practice on skates since the first week of August. My body, this morning, is sore and feeling a bit runover-after babying it for weeks because of a back injury. So, my bad jam. I was stuck being the goat for almost the ENTIRE TWENTY minutes of the jam (felt like twenty minutes). I...
Sep 6th
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Inside The World of Roller Derby →
Great news piece about the DC Rollergirls!
Sep 3rd