I spent half the night working on a post detailing how much fun I had over New Years...but, truth be told, after reading a few news blogs after coming back home...it seems wildly self indulgent and frankly a lot less important in other weighty context. It is entirely useful at times to be roused from complacency and shaken awake, despite the fact ( Read more... )

It becomes a very precarious act, trying in earnest to accomplish forward momentum after spending a half year of awkwardly stalled out and smarting.  As time and debt magnify, it becomes a more improbable thing to cling to hope that may not materialize. The world with all its half meant platitudes and dwindling prospects streches out before you, ( Read more... )

There's much to discuss. Several nights prior, before I left for video games and drinks, I stumbled onto a livejournal post by a guy who quite deftly attempted to articulate the anti-gay marriage argument via his religious belief system. I’ll post it here. All and all, an enjoyable conversation that left me, as ever, thinking about the greater ( Read more... )

Sure, why not. I've always had a fondness for haiku;

Toast to the solstice,
Holiday suffication,
Please be over soon.

There was a point, when I was younger and less self contained, that I would pray to whatever dieties would listen to the out-of place boys to be liked, to be understood and treated accordingly. I would resolve to go out in the world and be the nicest, most pleasant token minority you'd ever meet, because so much was riding on it. It wasn't just me ( Read more... )

If the Hannah Montana ANYTHING goes down in musical history as a legendary experience, I officially submit that I've lost every shered of faith in humanity. Its a little early in the day to be putting some Disney media concoction among the cultural significange of Woodstock. I mean, one was a celebration of free love and the music of a generation ( Read more... )

http://www.towleroad.com/2008/12/becket-fund-lau.html?cid=141533338#comment-141533338
(I wrote this in response to the above article from Towlerload.com. Fantastic site.)

And so the Becket Fund has taken out a page in the New York Times denoncing anti-religious violence. How utterly magnanimous of them. While I denounce the use of violence and ( Read more... )

I say with some trepidation that I'm somewhat homesick for a place I didn't care for when I was young. Easton I've always described as a rough and tumble place, with an inexplicable colonial charm sharpened by its, at times rough exterior. The return to the place upon my graduation was awash with my typical misgivings. Is moving to a place that has ( Read more... )

Ah, if the great thinkers of the day could harness the pure loathing I had for all things related to physical education and bottle it, we'd have enough of a renewable energy source to get off fossil fuels. I remember elementary school being not as much an emotionally scaring endeavor as later Middle School and High School would be; I was a ( Read more... )

One skates blithley through charmed encounters. All smiles, insincerity oozing so much we're swimming with it, altogether unsure whether and when we're being sarcastic. Oblivious to the slim possibility that that moment is passing you by. One smirks at his own goofiness, and ponders how badly he wants those silly things those pedestrian songs on ( Read more... )