Leo Bersani is rocking my world.

( excerpt on sex )

1. I have commenced my Master's thesis on slash fanfiction. I'm going to make a bigger, public post about that later to throw out some ideas, hopefully get some feedback, maybe some methodological advice ( Read more... )

1. Pastor Terry Jones, author of Islam is of the Devil, and his Dove World Outreach Center are hosting "International Burn A Quran Day" this September 11th-- a move so noxious that even the National Association of Evangelicals is raising its voice in protest. You can see Jones' promotion of the event on Youtube here. I plan to spend some time ( Read more... )

All you genius educated ballers-- can anyone translate this into English for me?

Aloysii Ivglaris ...: Christvs Iesvs, hoc est Elogiorvm pars prima, divina continens(if I owe you any kind of correspondence, jesus, I apologize; I have been engaged these last two weeks in slowly killing myself with Herman Melville, dried peaches and amphetamines, ( Read more... )

So after nearly 30 yrs of doing things my way and just bitching all of the time, I have started taking amphetamines-- for the immediate purpose of writing term papers but possibly out of the weeds and into the rest of my life as desired. After several months of abusing my body with alcohol and Red Bull, I feel pretty okay about it; only I do feel ( Read more... )

Like pears closely packed, the crowded crew mutually decay through close contact, and every plague-spot is contagious. Still more, from this same close confinement-- so far as it affects the common sailors-- arise other evils, so direful that they will hardly bear even so much as an allusion. What too many seamen are ashore is very well known; ( Read more... )

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Gacked from jbmcdragon--

Repeal Of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Paves Way For Gay Sex Right On Battlefield, Opponents Fantasize

As Congress prepares to allow gay individuals to serve openly in the military, those against the proposed change voiced their concerns Monday, warning the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" could soon lead to strong, strapping American ( Read more... )

1. So we all did the I Write Like meme, and it was funny and already inaccurate, and I'm not going to shit on it, so just be patient.

I want to take a look at a frequently misunderstood argument about color-blindness and gender-blindness. It was pointed out by zia_narratora that of all 40 possible returns for the writer meme, only three were women and all ( Read more... )

An implacable nervousness has gripped our hero! I can feel failure happening right nowBut here's the good news: yesterday, I saw a porcupine for the first time. Then later, I walked out my front door, and there was a buck deer standing in the flowers. Lastly, I was walking to my car at night in a torrential downpour, arm wrapped around the ( Read more... )