Goddamnit what is wrong with our generation? Other generations had to deal with war and economic necessity; they got shaken down by mobsters in protection rackets and sewed buttons on shirts instead of going to elementary school and dreamed of the day when they could scrape together enough money to buy some fricking furniture. We get vapidity, free ( Read more... )

"For twenty-five hundred years we have hoped and believed that if mankind could reveal itself to itself, could widely come to know its own motives, then somehow it would tilt the balance of things in its favor."

Not so!

In honor of Halloween, a poem by Robert Creely! I don't know why ( Read more... )

Google buys YouTube? Google teams up with NASA to open a joint, 1-million square foot R&D center for data mining and biological-nanotech-infotech convergence? China institutes a $1 billion education campaign to promote traditional Confucian values and open Centers for Confucius all around the country ( Read more... )

The problem with asking "what's wrong?" in any given situation is that the question sets off an infinite regress; you have to start moving gradually further and further back to get a handle on the answer until either the response bears no meaningful relation to the original question or the query gets so universal it becomes untethered, theoretical ( Read more... )

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The thing is, Florida is somewhere in New York City. Florida counts for something; being from Florida is a differentiation, a drastic one depending on who you talk to. That's a rare experience for me. I know personally that I've been permanently imprinted by my locale, but it's not often recognized by others. Living in the suburbs and then going to ( Read more... )

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I'm in a quandary, a good kind of a quandary, and I'm turning to the most reliable source of received wisdom readily available (the internet, or livejournal, they both work) for advice: I must accept one of the following three internships by Friday, and I can't decide which one to spring for. So I'm taking a reader's poll. You may vote for one, or ( Read more... )

Remember that girl in school (it was always a girl), the one with the relentlessly sunny disposition, who was always on about how much fun things were, and how great this was, and everything was just generally good and funny and let's do a silly dance and laugh about it later, and she beamed at you and was flighty and you thought she was pretty ( Read more... )