I'm in class right now, so I shouldn't be updating my livejournal. If I really wanted to waste some time while I listened to a webclass, I would read Hip: the History by John Leland or play Metroid: Fusion on my old, non-backlit Game Boy Advance, which are the two activities I enjoyed immediately before downloading 314MB of SLIS J702: Introduction ( Read more... )

On the Internet, all you really have to identify yourself to strangers is your list of "interests" and likes/dislikes. I mean, unless they read your book reviews. And over the past couple of years, as I slid down the cool scale, I've been gradually deeming all my guilty pleasures merely pleasures (and I've stopped sounding off so loudly about ( Read more... )

i understand that no one may be interesting in reading this, but i'm posting it anyway to highlight the fact that this quiz understands the difference between hair bands and metal, a fact that speaks well for the author of the quiz, even though i disagreed with many of the choices of bands representative of various styles.

Your Taste in Music:

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today i started work at the health food store. "new life natural foods," it's called ( Read more... )

also, today is my last day at the library; this entire week has been a mishmash of goodbyes, sweets and my ever-strengthening resolve to tell patrons exactly what they should be told, if not for my own benefit, than for the vicarious satisfaction of my more grizzled and frustrated coworkers. then, rarity of rarities, we have a chinese-water- ( Read more... )

i was reviewing all the CFPs i got this week (from the upenn mailing list) and i found some that were pretty interesting, like this one:

Burger asserts that the historical avant-garde consists of Dada, surrealism, and Russian constructivism and that all latter-day avant-garde movements are naive repetitions of the energies and limitations of those ( Read more... )

this is a hilarious read: discoverthenetwork.orgyou hear about the vast right-wing conspiracy to turn america into Main Street USA minus the gays and the jews, but the Right (post-mccarthy) generally assumes the left is too stupid, lazy or disorganized to form a giant, heinz-Red Network. now things have changed! here we can see actual terrorist ( Read more... )

"On Monday, Attorney General Gonzales announced that the Department of Justice would begin prosecuting obscenity."

also i walked by the aspiring novelist's computer today and saw chants of "lard-ass" scribbled on an index card. i must read this book!

has anyone here read both vonnegut and chuck palahniuk?

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