"I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes - a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of ( Read more... )

She would lay a fiery fearce passion upon the nevereverendingness of their love and their lust and their luve and they're lost.

As I sat, Star Trek on the television, drinking cheap wine and watching the smoke curl from my cigarette, gaining weight and losing dignity instead of writing my goddamn awful paper on Descartes, I finally understood what the Good Doctor was saying ( Read more... )

It's the sort of night where everything is right. It's the sort of night when you wish you were driving somewhere infinitely farther than just to pick up your maybe-girlfriend on campus, where you wish the gas gauge never fell, where the wind is blowing coolnotcold through the windows and you're at perfect harmony with everything. It's the sort of ( Read more... )

I have taken my first step toward becoming a professional academic.

I am an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, for a class called Philosophy 147; Markets, Ethics and Law.

"To teach is to learn twice." Joseph Joubert said that. I feel that that is the sort of sentiment which, partially, lead me to decide to apply for the UTA position - I found the ( Read more... )

To The Residents of Broome County, New York ( Read more... )

Check Engine light is back on. Story of my life, right ( Read more... )

I AM SO OLD

Happy Birthday, America! Hope you got everything you wanted.

"Ok. Ok ok, get this, get this. I've got a good one. Remember that show? With the chick and the dude, and she'd do that thing... that thing with her nose? Bewitched! Bewitched, that's it! That's it, man. Ok, ok... pass that over here, man, yeah. Ok. Ok, so this studio... this TV studio, they decide - yeah, right? Heh... they decide that they're ( Read more... )