Why Capitalism Ruins My Life #328

Disney's buying Marvel Comics for $4 billion dollars.
"Disney CEO Robert Iger said the acquisition combines Marvel's "strong global brand and world-renowned library of characters" with Disney's "unparalleled global portfolio of entertainment properties" and ability to maximize value across multiple platforms and

Kind of bummed to drop Sociology, but it was 101 and for approximately 400 less monies I could just buy a book and avoid a semester of class discussion with first-semester freshman. I felt like I was back in high school for 75 minutes today.
I couldn't stop listening to the Heretic Pride album I got in California, until I realized I have five ( Read more... )

I never made it to Pittsburgh. Jeremy and I tried to hitch but there were no rides. Madeline called Ruby last night and I ended up walking around the house holding up the speaker phone for about 20 minutes, weaving in and out of the party, while Madeline talked about any number of things (including how amazing North Carolina is?) and I got in ( Read more... )

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All right we need to make a parody of this. Someone from a punk house can be the condo owner, Sam "Where Dreams Come to Die" W. can be the renoenvy guy, someone on a bike can be the kayak guy, and we can talk about how we got all the juggalos off the river.

I tried to find stickers to cover the design on this water container my mom got me, but all I could find was a Blood Brothers sticker from that Club Infinity show way too long ago, and "This Phone is Tapped" (thanks Nathan). Bah. I need to go to Twin City and just grab a bunch of their stickers I guess ( Read more... )

WTF, Zeitgeist Addendum, how are you like every single book I've read, class I've taken, and paper I've written? I kept turning to Jeremy with things like "YEAH and the Fractional Reserve System works with the DEM and if you deposit 10,000 and the FR is 1/10 then that means 19,000 will be in circulation blah blah blah" and then two minutes later ( Read more... )

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My mantra in the Birthday (astrology) book is Even a rabbit can twist an ankle. I know how true this is and exactly what it means. I can run on and on thinking things are one way, that people mean some thing, that everything's going in one direction, and the rabbit doesn't look down until it's too late. I run too fast, and then before I realize ( Read more... )

I took Eva over to the Rocky Horror party at Jeremy's last night, she had a cray-cray time. What a pup ( Read more... )

Take one on a piece of gum at 4, walk downtown you don't feel anything except the weight walking next to you, don't hear anything except the traffic and the ukelele. Go back to the house try again at 7, this time straight onto the tongue. Drink wine and the faces begin to show up. And that weight that was next t you is outside on the phone now ( Read more... )