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I've been tutoring an 8th grader who's a big fan of heavy metal (particularly bands like Korn, Slipknot, Sepultura, and Anthrax); learning this, I felt the need to educate him in what I consider to be "good" musical tastes. Since he likes hard stuff, I burned him the Pixies' Doolittle.


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Last night I had the pleasure of seeing Regina Spektor, one of my favorite artists, at the Wiltern Theater in east LA.

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Throughout the years, many linguists and other people with too much time on their hands have attempted to create new languages based on either (or both) logic or universal accessibility. Esperanto and Toki Pona are ready of examples of these (failed) attempts at the spread of a "superior" language.

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Disapproving Rabbits by Sharon Stiteler, via Neatorama.

Today my school, Pomona College, welcomed James Turrell, an internationally acclaimed artist who focuses on the use of light.

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