For those of you not in the know, I long ago turned to designer jeans to fill the void in my life which would otherwise be occupied by things like self-actualization and meaningful personal relationships, and I'm particularly excited about the newest addition to my denim collection--the Kicking Mule Workshop 1980's. Made of rope-dyed Japanese ( Read more... )

"Squier's career as a chart-topping rocker came to a stunningly rapid and sudden end with the release of the music video for "Rock Me Tonite", universally derided by his fans for its effeminate set (a bedroom dressed in soft, pastel fabrics) and Squier's bizarre, vaguely homoerotic prancing and ripping of his clothing, reminiscent of Jennifer Beals ( Read more... )

If you could change one aspect of your I-House dining experience, what would it be?"I suggest a new policy for the toasters be enacted wherein the speed of the toasting conveyor belt is set at medium-high and it is requested that residents do not change it (perhaps a sign or something to tell them this). When the toasters are set on slow speed they ( Read more... )

I had planned on reading 80 pages of political economy tonight, but ended up watching 80's music videos for 3 hours instead. I've decided it's still too early in the semester to start prioritizing.

This one is my favorite: http://www.youtube.com/?v=AopWkNI4JdI

We had a research librarian guest lecturer in my American Cultural Landscapes class with the sensitive professor. During the introduction he read from a personal statement she had written describing her goals and got extremely choked up at the line "equip students to succeed". After regaining his composure he read the line again like it was the ( Read more... )

I've been getting really into telemark skiing in the last few days, the concept being that the telemark binding only secures the toes of your boots to the skis, leaving the heel free to move up and down. It's basically the black sheep of the skiing/snowboarding family with a fairly small community of fanatically devoted Telemark adherents who ( Read more... )

Christmas in Chico this year was almost entirely unremarkable, but I did receive my favorite gift of all time, a peanut butter & jelly spreader. The box boasts that it "eliminates the danger of peanut butter and jelly mixing in their containers ( Read more... )

Matt and Vanessa came to visit me in Berkeley, so we went out for Korean dinner in Oakland with Akshay and I-House company.

( The result was this )

Call me a small town boy, but every time I ride the Bay Area Rapid Transit system I feel like I've been transported to some surreal dystopian future. It's at that moment, when the train begins its screaming descent into the darkness, that I look over at the sad, expressionless faces bobbing up and down in the next car, and feel certain that there ( Read more... )

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