I've lived so few lives (one) and such a short life (23 years). I don't think I know what it's about, but I might have learned what it's not about ( Read more... )

I wonder when the world will realize that culture is not a necessarily positive thing, not something to be honored and preserved. Maybe recorded, but not preserved. I heard a student talking about the problem that if we modernize the medicine and economies in starving African countries, their culture will probably start to fade. So what! Part ( Read more... )

Just watched the Bukowski documentary. Hadn't had the feeling before that he was such a sentimental, sweet guy. One person interviewed alludes to the possibility that his teenage acne problem, which produced the tremendous permanent pock-marks, which make his face so haggered, were actually caused psychosomatically by all of the beatings he ( Read more... )

The academic system is the worst thing ever crafted by human beings. That is all.

Ok, this whole website is great, but the batman primer made me embarrass myself laughing in the computer lab ( Read more... )

I can't figure out where to keep my slowly forming articles and shit, so I think I'll start putting them here for now. Here's some crap about music ( Read more... )

I'm unsure of what I just saw. It was either a mother walking her dog and her baby, or a dog and a mother walking a baby, or a dog walking a mother and a baby, or a baby and a dog walking a mother, or a baby walking a mother and a dog.

I tend to think of things from a year earlier all the time.  A year ago I was in Tunisia.  We went to the zoo and I fell in love with the Fennecs.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennec  Those motherfuckers were cuter than anything I'd ever seen.  Anyway, our awesome chauffeur told Sabry that he knew where I could get one to take back to France.  ( Read more... )

I consider myself a credulous person. I'm a skeptic and a cynic, but I think I easily adapt to things that seem to be true. In the last 20 minutes I had a really strange coincidence. The only way I can pin it down is sheer chance ( Read more... )