There's an American DJ on the radio station I get in Tajiri ( Read more... )

She is a hybrid of:
Academic Girl
Indie Girl

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I bought an iPod Nano.

I named him Icarus.

I came across this quote in a book I'm reading:
"The naming madness that came over men when they arrived here in the unmapped blankness seeped quickly into every corner of their lives.  They named the radios, the latrine, they named their hangovers and cuts on their fingers."

Icarus came with big white ( Read more... )

We Who Are Your Closest Friends
Phillip LopateWe who are ( Read more... )

   Confessions of a Distraught Author

I regret to inform myself,
That I am not poetically inclined.

- John Bloxom, 10th grade

My uncle used to date a woman who lived next door to him. Bad idea, I know, it seemed to work out pretty well for him. And, to be fair, she was a wicked cool woman. I would have dated her. She had this amazing hippie philosophy on life, she had painted her kitchen brilliant yellow, she was an acupuncturist, for god's sake, it's really tough to ( Read more... )

Shakespeare and Catullus wrote poetic series about their loves, Cyn writes haikus about the people she's slept with. I combine these two approaches to love and write a poetic series of haikus. Best way to waste two hours ever.

Like all the masters, I title it ( Untitled )

The desks in the teacher`s room at Yoneyama face each other, front to front, so that no matter where you sit (unless you`ve brought in a bookcase, which a lot of teachers have), you spend the entire day watching the person at the desk across from you ( Read more... )

In Pictures: Thai ProtestsThe BBC's feature that gives you pictures of an event just had a bit about the protests by thousands of Thai people against their Prime Minister, which I was calmly, dispassionately reading just now ( Read more... )

Girl 1 Not everything is about you.

Girl 2 Everything's relevant to me.

Overheard in New York