happy new year.

i am simultaneously reading sartre's existentialism and human emotions, ronald aronson's after marxism, d.k. goodwin's team of rivals about lincoln and his cabinet, and faulkner's the sound and the fury. the first three i am reading because i am hoping to synthesize them into a plan for taking over the world; the latter i am ( Read more... )

i just finished watching star wars episodes I-VI with my dad and brother. we watched them over two days and my brain is now mush ( Read more... )

merry christmas, everyone ( Read more... )

radio paradise is the coolest thing in the universe.

"Torture is the polar opposite of freedom. It is the banishment of all freedom from a human body and soul, insofar as that is possible. As human beings, we all inhabit bodies and have minds, souls and reflexes that are designed in part to protect those bodies: to resist or flinch from pain, to protect the psyche from disintegration, and to ( Read more... )

So apparently, I posted an incomplete rant about GW Bush in here last week. I think i started to type up the entry, but then got distracted and left it there unfinished. I definitely don't recall hitting the "update" button ( Read more... )

New Jersey holds its gubernatorial election on November 8. The Democratic candidate is mediocre one-term U.S. Senator and multi-gazillionaire Jon Corzine who won his Senate race 51-49 over a fairly competant Republican by spending $63 million of his own money. The Republican candidate is the also mediocre, also rich-as-fuck businessman and failed ( Read more... )

this entry is mainly to get the previous entry off the front page of my journal. i'm sorry. nobody needs to know that i'm a random, gentle love master. and the picture of the guy is just creepy.

keith has a wedding reception tomorrow in new york for his american friends. alex, todd and i are getting him an expensive chess set.

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