I spent much of today at work imagining the total destruction of my hometown, so I announce with great relief that most of New Orleans has been spared the worst.

It's not yet known how much our neighborhood flooded, and it likely won't be known for at least a couple more days. Authorities are advising people to wait at least a week before ( Read more... )

(Before I begin, a question: when was the last time you heard the word "anal-retentive" and processed its denotation, rather than its connotation? Years from now, after most of his research has been debunked, Freud's legacy will be singular: he's the dude who's responsible for this. He's responsible for your thinking "meticulous, controlling ( Read more... )

Have I ever written these lists down? I don't think I have.
My Favorite Movies (ranked in order, somewhat)

1. L.A. Confidential
2. Memento
3. Glengarry Glen Ross
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. L.A. Story

I swear I'm never going to feel like an adult. I don't think adulthood exists outside others' perceptions of you.

Come September 1 I'll be unemployed. Or, rather, self-employed. The grant that pays my salary here at the Dana Center has not been renewed. I've known for about a month, but I haven't written about it because I didn't really know ( Read more... )

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While I was pretending to be surprised that House Republicans are trying to stop George Soros from buying a stake in the Washington Nationals, I did a little recreational research into antitrust laws and sports. Baseball is the only major sport that has an antitrust exemption from the federal government, meaning it can do crazy bullshit like, let' ( Read more... )

Time for more memefuckery. As requested by jervo:
List your current six favorite songs, then pick six other people to do the same:

In no particular order:

• Randy Newman, "Sail Away"
• Jurassic 5, "Concrete Schoolyard"
• Professor Longhair, "Big Chief"
• Otis Redding, "Hard to Handle"
• Cake, "Arco Arena"

The amount of television I've been watching over the last week or so is substantial. It's more than a crapload; I'd describe it as a "royal" crapload, or perhaps even a "crap megaton." Furthermore, I've managed to watch this crapload of programming without ever glancing at live TV: everything I've watched has been TiVo'd, purchased on DVD, or ( Read more... )

If you haven't been bummed out yet today, take a look at this New York Magazine article on sexual abuse at the American Boychoir School. It's an interesting read and really got me thinking ( Read more... )

I used to have a guitar-playing roommate. He was the troubador of the quad - whenever I saw him outside our room he had his guitar slung over his back and his eyes in "brooding" mode.

Chicks ate that shit up. You'd think that women in the honors dorms would be a bit more wily, but there must be something about the first few chords of DMB's " ( Read more... )