Michael has a new blog. It's all about his crazy travels all over the world in a travel help book kind of format. The username's hawkhaslanded. Ask him why sometime.

I logged onto Ye Olde LJ just now and there's an ad on the front page. Not on someone's individual blog, as in by choice, but on the front page.

Not.
Freaking.
Cool.

Dude maruchina, no freaking wonder we get along so well.

Your Inner European is Dutch!
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A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire America seems to be in love with its military. Trendy little things like yellow magnetic ribbons reading “support our troops!” and “thank a soldier!” are maybe the most obvious examples. Ironically, people rarely put their money where their mouth is in regards to such car-bumper expressions. (I could write ( Read more... )

Junior Senator from Minnesota to swear in on a Qu'ranThat's a really cool precedent to set. I've never really minded anyone using a Bible to swear on, and one has the option of the "I affirm," line so it's really just a formality. But a firm instance of something other than a Bible to bind a public oath gives a more tangible example that contrary ( Read more... )

New York rocked. I spent entirely too much money on books, and there was cheesecake: sure signs of a good day ( Read more... )

When Shine came out I'd heard such horrid things about it from a multitude of sources that I just never bothered picking up a copy. So today work was kind of slow and I found myself listening to this month's (unusually good, this time around) in-store music. I realized that one particular track that had an annoying tendency to get stuck in my head ( Read more... )

Yesterday Saddam Hussein finally kicked off. And I'm frankly disturbed at how...gleeful...the American media's coverage of it has been. Today my mom's Fox News (I'd like to disclaim right now that I was watching the tripe by choice) would not shut up about how the horrid, vile man was finally dead. All while barely giving lip service to the funeral ( Read more... )

Well, it's only art if you're following Warhol's philosophy: "Making money is art."

Just now I was cleaning out all my Firefox bookmarks and rediscovered this site. It's the portfolio for a guy who does Photoshopping for a lot of big-name magazines, catalogs and actors (Halle Berry's in there, so's Alicia Keyes ( Read more... )

It scored me an invite to Bucknell's annual symposium.

Oh hells yeah.