I've officially completed all my assignments for the semester. For the next week it's just brown-nosing-i-mean-racking-up-participation-points-i-mean-earnestly-and-intellectually-engaging-with-my-fellow-students ( Read more... )

California beauty princesses believe in, you know, stuff. Most of the time they don't bother to get much more specific, but when they do, NOM is all over that shit. ht Danielle.

(that's it for today's trashy news updates, I promise)

"I was very careful in saying that I did not want to offend anyone." Gee Miss California, it sure is a shame that the mean ol' world went ahead and did something you didn't want. At least the proponents of "opposite marriage" can be confident in knowing that they have such an articulate advocate.

ht webeknives, who doesn't post anymore.

Uhm, is this another one of those things that I'm like the last to know about? About how Batgirl a.k.a. Barbara Gordon a.k.a. Commissioner Gordon's daughter became a paraplegic in 1988, prompting a career change that landed her a gig as a top-secret, uhm, information broker code-named Oracle? And how Oracle the corporation pre-dates Oracle the ( Read more... )

Oh my god, people....

This is necessarily narrow and admittedly incomplete; it's just to help me figure out what else I want to know before doing this one thing.

( The Higher Education of Food Snobbery: A Local Timeline )

Found an old journal and decided to follow suit after reify. It's about as ridiculous as you'd expect: nothing deep or especially juicy because, for now, I'm omitting the parts where I get a little too involved with Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as the parts that feature lists like "The Perfect Guy" and "The Perfect Guy Revised."

( circa 1990 )

( #refreshingandaffirming )

Well technically I have a research paper to write and a ton of reading to do. But that doesn't always seem like the best way to utilize all this time. To avoid these tasks, I have to make my own distractions, which can be very hard work.

I have persevered though. ( Presenting: notable examples of the most annoying logo feature ever. )

( embarrassingly vintage aryspop subject matter. can't recommend clicking )