The beauty and the death,

The music and the riff,

The end and the beginning

Of something in the new time

For one man or ten

Slamming forward

Wave after wave

Of the new shit

Different than the old shit

Avatars of us

Pimple-free and

Safe.

Columbus, OH-In the conclusion of a series of bizarre events beginning with the unexplained resignation of Governer Bob Taft and his entire cabinet and staff, Bill W. Dantowitz of Brookline, Massachusetts was inaugurated as the new Ohio governer. Due to an arcane set of laws preventing virtually any resident of the state outside of the cabinet ( Read more... )

The blues are great as a fiction created by white people to explain a genre of music. But when you run into them on the street, they're ugly and a little sad, because they are the only thing giving the people who sing them strength.

This was on a postsecret card:

Fuck the poets of the past, my friends.
there are no beautiful suicides
just cold corpses with shit in their pants
& the end of the gifts.

There is a fan club devoted to my fraternity on facebook.

The Gorillaz new album "Demon Days" is excellent. I've probably ( Read more... )

When I stay up all night I like to put on "The End" by the Doors and reenact the scene at the beginning of Apocalypse Now as the sun comes up.

Joe Ziolkowski is my new favorite photographic artist.  I like his work for its own aesthetic sake.  Some of the stuff he does with the human form is brilliant.   But I also like it because his photos still manage to piss people off in this conservative little training camp of a Midwestern university, even in 2005. One of my favorites for messing ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I'm going to History 182 for the first time this quarter, in order to pick up a syllabus and study guide for the exam Monday, which I found out today. I'm becoming a slacker by anyone's definition. What's funny is my grades are still in the low As. I'm starting to wonder whether this school is a joke, academically speaking. I spend way ( Read more... )

91% of the people arrested during the protests against the Republican Convention in New York have been acquitted or have had their charges dropped, often after the surfacing of videotape showing that the arresting officers had lied about them resisting arrest. Not that the New York Times put it in those terms. Instead, the officers couldn't ( Read more... )