Getting in a car accident is easy ( Read more... )

Last night at around 1:00 in the morning my landlord knocked ( Read more... )

Subject: WHO IS BARACK OBAMA ( Read more... )

Scholarly work is strange. It involves a massive economy of words, in multiple senses, a ridiculous amount of time spent with noses in books, plus condensing what's in those books, from an already condensed form, into a high density meteor of hopefully truth salted with ones own observations. This, along with endless frustrations and agonizing ( Read more... )

We saw Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of Some Alien Thing Or Whatnot last night ( Read more... )

So this has been an eventful week. One couple we know decided to elope to Vegas, after telling everyone they were going to colonial Williamsburg (a brilliant smokescreen!), and another couple we know got knocked up. With Child, that is, accidentally. But they seem pretty happy about it in their own sarcastic, cynical way ( Read more... )

Question of the Day ( Read more... )

"Cepheus is holding Cassiopeia's free hand ( Read more... )

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I adore Carl Sagan

I watched Ben Hur last night, in honor of Charlton Heston ( Read more... )