"Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song." -- Leonard Cohen ( Read more... )

Every time life kicks my ass, even just a little bit, there is always a period of confusion and shock -- but afterwards I am always infinitely grateful.

To all my friends: thanks for putting up with my shit all this time.

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I'm thinking pretty seriously about doing some kind of teaching or volunteering program in China sometime in the next year, since I foolishly passed up the opportunity to study abroad while at Oberlin, and I feel the need to compete with my friends who (unlike me) actually got into the Jet program. I have three semesters worth of Mandarin rotting ( Read more... )

Please let the record show that I have been host to a parasitic third chromosome #21 for the last few years of my life, and it is only in recent months that I have begun to realize this fact.

Also, I would like a woman. Who will trade me their virgin daughter for twenty cans of insecticide?

I just got a job working at Kim's Video near Columbia. After a day of attempting to treat the customers with the condescension they deserve (as per section 7, article 3b of the employee rule book), I typically drink three cups of coffee and befoul my notebook with sub-literate scrawlings until I feel too sick to continue. Life is not bad.

Spending time at home with my parents completely saps my will to live. Having grown up both a momma's boy and a daddy's girl, it doesn't take long before my radar gets jammed, and I succumb to the interference which is always so much stronger than my own weak signal. Being with my father makes me feel like a useless ornament, some kind of expensive ( Read more... )

Alphonse DeLove is the primary avatar of Eros, considered by many to be the perfect manifestation of God's divine Libido upon this Earth. 3/4 ebony sex machine and 2/5 samurai, he appears as a peripatetic sexual shaman, a mystical erotic healer who roams the countryside with his mighty pleasure wand slung over his shoulder like a Zimbabwean ( Read more... )

This Is My Life, RatedLife:

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There should be an expression in English that means both "thank you" and "fuck you."