Seriously, possibly the best comedy ever.

I've been in love with Robert Downey, Jr., for a long time now, but I didn't know how much I could love him until I saw him as a "dude playing a dude, disguised as another dude."

And also fondling Tobey Maguire's, um, rosary beads.

Old goal: 2 miles, attained today.
New goal: 3 miles!

more later!

The second best news of today: Joss Whedon’s new show with ELIZA DUSHKU(!) is picked up for fall.

The bestest best news of today: The “X-Files” movie is real. There is a release date. And a trailer (see below). And David Duchovny is hot in it. And Gillian Anderson - the hair is too long for Scully’s character but she still makes my heart a-flutter ( Read more... )

I used to think that exercising was for losers (I really did). Then I got fat. I also realized that other people could do amazing things with their bodies (yoga, dance, slay vampires, not run out of breath after running for 2 minutes) while I could not because, well, I was fat. So the summer before last, I started yoga and running so as to stave ( Read more... )

that being a grad student entails spending montones de dinero that one simply does not have.

Hilaaaaariously, as soon as I finished typing that sentence, I got this message from my first-year roommate from college:

Kelsey: hey, guess what

me: you got into harvard med? [I was being semi-facetious]

Kelsey: how did you know that?!also, thanks to their ( Read more... )

During the first day of class, I asked the students to write a short essay on whether or not they agree with the U.S. government's use of torture at Guantánamo Bay (I need a writing sample from each student). This is the first line of one of the essays:

"For ages, torture has been used as a form of punishment, to curve one's will into something ( Read more... )

Last year, I wrote a paper for my Foucault class on the relationship between philosophy and sadomasochism. In that paper, I wrote, but did not quite understand myself, this:

Through these desexualized events that challenged the norms of sexual sexual practice by using the body as a source of sensual pleasure beyond the genital, the S/M ( Read more... )

And Speaking of Perfect Unions…: What if Hillary Clinton gave a speech about gender? (And why she won't ( Read more... )

 Japan’s toymakers design dolls for the elderly ( Read more... )