They're giving cockroaches robots!

Rest in pieces, Hunter S. Thompson.

"He stomped terra."

Well, my break's nearly over, as well as the year. So maybe I should write down what I've been up to.

Break has been pretty slow. I've gotten some reading done, which has been nice: If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino, and The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder. Both very cool.

If on a winter's night a traveler is fiction, ( Read more... )

Here are my music lists:

ALL-AROUND
1. Black Dice - Creature Comforts
   
2. Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands of the Golden Empress /
   Nino Rojo
   
3. Liars - They Were Wrong So We Drowned
   
4. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
   
5. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
   
6. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
   
7. Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
   
8. M.I.A./Diplo - Piracy Funds Terrorism Vol. 1
   
9. The ( Read more... )

So I am recently inspired to try to make a paper 'zine ( Read more... )

I originally wrote this as a response to Scott's comment to my last post, but I'll put it here cuz it's really long, and I think people should add their own ideas.

Good question. I'll write the first few ideas that come to my head. Of course I realize that most Americans totally disagree with me though. These ideas are just in a random order. ( Read more... )

So what do we do now ( Read more... )

Amnesty International UW presents:

"Addressing Torture: An Academic, A Survivor"

Wednesday, October 20

University of Washington

Kane Hall 210

7:00 - 8:30 PM

Doors 6:30 PM

Featuring:

Professor Jamie Mayerfeld

Torture in the War on Terrorism:

"Reporting in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal revealed that the United States government has ( Read more... )

Yeah, so that subject line is a mnemonic for memorizing the Cenozoic epochs of geologic/evolutionary time. I just memorized all the epochs that it stands for, along with 3 forms of Latin declensions. My brain hurts ( Read more... )

oh man, nick astete is sooooooo cool man. he is like the greatest guy there is. I can't evEN Explain it. like wow. like he told me that i should write this abotu hism him in my blog, like saying how fucking great and cool he is, and like he would read it hes aid and be like "i'm cool" and i'd be like "no, youre not!" (just kidding) because he ( Read more... )