so that paper due monday? yup, procrastinating like a madwoman. i did pick a topic, though; i'm writing about bill clinton's 1992 campaign and how they turned a likely loss into a landslide victory. i watched the war room again yesterday and now i want to be james carville again instead of friday's career aspiration of ring leader for a traveling ( Read more... )

man, i am making like no progress at all on my paper. procrastinating on lj probably does not help. actually my topic is pretty interesting--it's on mobutu's regime in congo/zaire--but i am bad at research ( Read more... )

book recommendations--go!

i STAAARVE for you!

i'm extending my last entry to include pretentious people of all types, including, but not limited to ( Read more... )

today i hate people who wear che guevara shirts. aside from the sheer irony of the fact that these shirts are mass-marketed, quite possibly in sweat shops, as part of a capitalistic system, most of those people have no idea what the hell che did. they know he was a marxist (sometimes) and nothing else. also, they are usually white, middle-to-upper- ( Read more... )

Okay okay, I totally have to share this little-acknowledged bit of American history that I learned in my America: 1965-present lecture today ( Read more... )

just overheard in the redpath tim horton's ( Read more... )

( songs from my show, which are either used in the actual performance or featured prominently in our crazy dance parties )

man, i haven't updated in like two weeks. that's almost three weeks. since last we spoke, many a thing has happened, and i shall relate a few of these ( Read more... )