Birthday and Christmas Swag ( Read more... )

"I came to the village to kill the necromancer. Even now, it's unclear to me why I am here, or why I have a weapon pressed tightly against the inside of my coat, against the heart. My memory has begun to efface itself. I don't know when I'm dreaming or awake. Things have happened that could not have ( Read more... )

As a long-time sovereigntist, I think the declaraction that Quebec is a nation is both incredibly stupid and mildly satisfying. It is incredibly stupid because, as Randy pointed out some time ago, Quebec is several autonomous polities made up of several nations, of which French-Canadians are only the largest demographically (while the First Nations ( Read more... )

I think I'm depressed. I'm never quite sure in the beginning stages of it, but it usually crops up around this time of year. Anhedonia, a persistent sense of "hollowness" and loss of affect are all present, along with the usual morbid thoughts. I'm hoping that this is simply a lull, and without school to provoke things, I will be able to ride it ( Read more... )

John Bell, writer:

2001-2002:
"Universals. What are they? Do they even exist? These are the sorts of questions that have bothered western thinkers for thousands of years when they weren

There have only been two shows that qualify as great works of art in all of North American television that I am aware of. I don't mean that hyperbolically. Television is a fucking wasteland, and there are really only two shows that are great works of art that I'm aware of ( Read more... )

I'm back. I took a break from posting and it's over now ( Read more... )

The LSAT must have rabies, because I just took it out behind the toolshed and shot it ( Read more... )

For years people have told me that I was overly intellectual and that having sex would somehow change this, as if it was an excess of semen backed up into my skull cavity that caused me to love thinking. They were wrong, of course. Similarly, people said that once I had sex, I would become as sex-obsessed as "everyone else" (their expression, not ( Read more... )

This whole week has been the fall of Berlin with a certain John Bell fellow playing the part of the man in the bunker. I had such high hopes for it to start with, and it all ended up falling to shit. To begin with, Comrade Charles and I went to the Shortbus after party. That's the movie that a local celebity (Sook-Yin Lee for those who know who she ( Read more... )