A part of me thinks that what I've been doing at Oberlin lately is just hedging my bets so that if I do decide to run off and join the circus, I'll know how. And have a resume ( Read more... )

Virgin Burns on Saturday:

Catherine - ball
Me - rope dart
Becca - this rope dart
Ray / Amanda - ever (using ball)
Daniel Chenoweth - ever (using poi)
Christopher - ever (using staff)

Awesome. And I have a lot of video of the whole thing.

Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, and Chuck Norris, and Sylvester Stallone are involved in the elections for the most powerful office in the world. I guess this is better than Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger actually attaining offices of their own.

In other news, naked mole rats are awesome.

Can anybody make sense of The Origin of EmotionsI think there's a social experiment going on, looking to see how people respond to something as poorly constructed as it is. It's fascinating that it's available both through amazon and for free in a "non printable pdf" on the same website. Perhaps it's a piece of overly subtle satire ( Read more... )

Compared to Aragorn and Jayne in one night. Funny that.

Victory is mine, victory is mine. Great day in the morning, victory is mine ( Read more... )

I have no idea why I enjoy it so much, but I feel rather at peace sitting at my computer with the sounds of a football game, the cheers and blaring hip hop, 100 feet from my door. Maybe it's just where it's not purely the game but where I am in the "Stream of Time."

Lets see, yesterday my group managed to pull off a really strong presentation on ( Read more... )

ECON 253 Intermediate Microeconomics - Lipow ( Read more... )

Dallas theater is apparently not quite an oxymoron. It's also not quite as good as I've been hoping. I saw a production of Scapino a while back that was amazing, one of Debbie Does Dallas that I loved, and I'm struggling to quite replicate the experience. Saw The Last Days of Judas Iscariot tonight, first performance of the troupe in a new space ( Read more... )

Across the Universe is the first movie I've seen in a long time where the characters consistently find that subverting the system is less productive than working within in. It doesnt glorify radicals, even during wartime, and kicks out a main character who's an illegal immigrant until he gets a visa. Has an appeal to it. Even if it was a musical ( Read more... )