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FO SHIZZLY DIZZLY
"Oh my god. Look at this!"
"That's awesome! We should take a screencap of it!"
"Can we do that?"
"YES WE CAN."
( I swear that at 12:31:28 AM, November 5, this is what it said on Barack Obama's Wikipedia page. ) -
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My goal this weekend is to make it to one of the main branches of the New York Public Library and check it out, and by check it out, I mean do my homework there. Slowly and surely, I am discovering the city. Maybe I'll tag along with the I-House group that wants to check out Greenwich Village next week ( Read more... ) -
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I HAVE A CONFESSION. I went to the MoMa this weekend and, walking through some of the galleries, I would've felt ripped off if my admission hadn't been free. It's like, seriously? Obviously I made a mistake when I didn't charge millions of dollars for all the lint I found in my linen closet, or the root I dug up in my grandmother's backyard. Or ( Read more... ) -
"ono wong londo ngomong suroboyoan! kapan jim-bon sinau ngomong jowo??"
My dad and his brothers/cousins/whatevers have been emailing each other back and forth in a mishmash of Javanese, Sundanese, and Bahasa about the family reunion in December (the one I'm missing out on), and they've decided to cc the kids, so now my inbox is being ReplyAll-spammed by the clan. It's not annoying yet. I'm still finding them ( Read more... ) -
the world is just awesome, with or without a rhyme scheme or meter
I love the Fung Wah.
I love the libraries.
I love online TV.
I love my program,
how they're like, "It's all good."
I love sociologists
specializing in transnational identities.
BOOM DE YADA BOOM DE YADA BOOM DE YADA BOOM DE YADA
I love my methodology professor,
he's such a flailbot (different from a failbot).
I love subverted children's ( Read more... ) -
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UMMMMM kind of excited that Benedict Anderson is coming to give a talk next month. TWICE. AND ONE OF THEM IS ON THE DESTRUCTION OF INDONESIAN INTELLECTUALS IN THE SIXTIES AND THE ROLE OF THE USA IN THE ANTI-COMMIE COUP AAAAIIIIIIEEEEEE. He's studied Indonesia for yonks, and together with Andre Vltchek he will be showing and leading a discussion ( Read more... ) -
campus events
blitherings, outlines, summaries.
In which former and current members of the Security Council (Tanzania, UK, Liechtenstein, Egypt) came to SIPA and had a panel of the democratization of the Security Council.
( i laughed, i cried. ) -
"think of it as a mindgame with time" -- my professor
I'm excited that I don't have to drop my 'Historical Sociology' course. To celebrate, here is a collection of quotes about history that make my brain giddy. Hooray aphorisms ( Read more... ) -
again for my own reference
"The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of men, is a demand for their real happiness. The call to abandon their illusions about their condition is a call to abandon a condition which requires no illusions."
( from the introduction to the 'contribution to the critique of hegel's philogophy of right' ) -
marx
homework storage dump. this isn't meant to be a concise summary of marxist thinking or serious academic contemplation, more like a gut reaction of things that catch my eye + vocab list.
from Alienation & Social Classes
Theses on Feuerbach
Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economyand something else i can't remember, located ( Read more... )