from charli: Write a poem by putting your itunes/mp3 player/whatever you listen to music on on shuffle and writing down the first line from the first 20 songs that pop up. use the first line from the 21st song as a title

you said everything's going to be alright

she don't lie in bed at night staring at the ceiling
giving the chances to leave the ( Read more... )

If you voted for this Proposition or support those who did or the sentiment they expressed, I have some questions, because, truly, I do not understand. Why does this matter to you? What is it to you? In a time of impermanence and fly-by-night relationships, these people over here want the same chance at permanence and happiness that is your option ( Read more... )

there's been much of the same post-election conversation going on, here at yale, on cnn itself, that "this is a victory for the african-americans," as mccain said in his concession speech. as soon as he said it, the entire room exploded, did he actually say that? mccain didn't get it. that was just a fraction of what this election meant to us. this ( Read more... )

i stayed up until 3 am refreshing california. at one point, when my eyes and my heart felt too heavy to stay awake, i went to bed, computer on and alarm set for 6 in the morning. and there it was, unchanging, hours later. 48% to 52%. i know, in time, we'll think, how blind we all were to deny gay marriage! how backwards and primitive! and i also ( Read more... )

from a nytimes op-ed written by aaron sorkin, the creator of "west wing".

OBAMA The problem is we can’t appear angry. Bush called us the angry left. Did you see anyone in Denver who was angry?

BARTLET Well ... let me think. ...We went to war against the wrong country, Osama bin Laden just celebrated his seventh anniversary of not being caught either ( Read more... )

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here i am, my life changing before my eyes. i've planned a 4-day trip to boracay with my mother, who is sometimes the person i can't stand most in the world. but there's something about college and being away all year that makes me want to spend time with her. i'm practically looking forward to it, getting giddy as i think about how i will show her ( Read more... )

It's a funny thing about the modern world. You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying, "Yeah, he fucked off and left me. He didn't love me. He just couldn't deal with love. He was too fucked up to know how to love me." Now, how did that happen? What was it about this unlovable century that convinced us we were, despite everything, eminently ( Read more... )

things i have done today ( Read more... )

the international centre for democratic transition, which is where i work, is currently conducting a training program for north korean officials. in fact, they're in budapest now, doing sessions on good democratic practices. which i suppose is a good thing. one of the other interns here told me that anita, one of the head staff here, said jokingly ( Read more... )