"No, I don't share your socialist sympathies.
Non, je ne partage pas vos gouts socialistes. . .

I don't think Milton Friedman would agree with that assessment.
Je ne pense pas que Milton Friedman serai de votre cote a propos de
cela.

Just because you're French doesn't mean you have to be rude ( Read more... )

"thank you for all your letters/pictures/music etc.
all mail is read by boc, and is greatly appreciated.
due to the large volume of mail we cannot guarantee an immediate reply,
but you will receive something eventually."

-boards of canada

"you can't hold down these truths better than a bottle of wine
and you have diamonds for eyes tonight
and you stare at the ground
and you stare at the ground!
and i can push you up against a wall tonight
but what good would that do?
what good would that do?
and you shove it away . . ."
-American Watercolor Movement

album's out soon!

day two of cold turkey. harrumph. it's so difficult to remember why you quit. of course you know that you have to because you don't want cancer, but that's a 20-to-50 years from now issue, so it really is difficult to hold onto the idea of it. gary becker says that i have "addictive capital," that i add to it every day that i smoke and that i ( Read more... )

study finds cost of living now outweighs benefits

in brief:

* saw ghost
* drank on roof of sweatshop, a la batman
* discovered friend in cult. must rescue.

so i was, you know, forcibly defrosting my refrigerator with a solid iron sculpture my friend steve singer made me entitled "power object" when i hit some kind of gas line and sprayed frion (or whatever the hell they use nowadays) ALL OVER MY FACE. i was bodily thrown backwards against the wall by the force of the rushing gas, knocking my bean ( Read more... )

ok there's something i don't understand about this whole hpv vaccine - where can i get some??? are they going to approve it for men?

[later] oh wait looks like they're thinking about it: it's in one of the commments

it's so interesting how many conventions you just don't notice in television or film. i was watching a television show where the lead character is lost somewhere . . . he figures out where west is based on the trajectory of the sun and then points to where north is from that, only it's clearly more than ninety degrees from west. i think the only ( Read more... )

funny ass achewood