Picnicking at the Quai de la Tournelle is always pretty sweet.


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Warning: extremely disturbing images of women suffering in Afghanistan, i.e. extensive acid burns, noses and ears cut off, etc.

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I wish aid groups offered more options to help than "give us money". Lord knows if I had money I'd send it if I thought it might help, but what I do have is time, so put me to work!

people are starting to notice.

Maybe now the common nosy asshole will think twice before insisting that I propagate my bloated, generally overrated species.

My iTunes library would (according to iTunes) take eight days to play in its entirety. Somehow I don't feel like I really have that much music, or maybe it's just difficult to internalize that kind of immense time line for something I experience maybe two hours per day. Part of me wants to do an experiment involving letting iTunes play nonstop for ( Read more... )

You know, someone could read Star Trek in a seriously anti-Semitic light. The Ferengi embody to obscenity all of the stereotypical greed and shifty business ethic associated with anti-Semitic views of the Jewish community, and Deep Space 9's shape-shifters sure do sound a lot like Israel when they talk with such bitterness about how they were ( Read more... )

I kind of want a tattoo of California. It has nothing to do with Best Coast. I swear.

(Don't worry, y'all know I'd never do anything so butt-ugly stupid. But you gotta admit, since I won't never live there ever again and it is the best place in the world, it would be nice to have a constant reminder of my roots and all. Paradise lost, 'n all.)

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The American extreme-right has done the impossible.

They have created anarcho-fascism.

Now, the British guy on NPR who wrote Obama's Brain tells me that getting angry is fueling the fire and adding to the climaxing American tradition of dangerous fury/paranoia, but come on. Let's really look at things here. Peer into the crystal ball with me, won ( Read more... )

My first pair in probably 15 years at least!


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David Foster Wallace. Too bad I haven't read anything by this guy; frankly I was kind of hoping for Faulkner.

Who do you write like?

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The last few weeks have been altogether too pleasant.

For example, at the Janelle Monáe concert we were surprised to find Saul Williams opening...

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