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Spring Broke
I am long overdue for a posting about my spring break!
The first weekend was Aralis! I had fun, though I am sympathetic to those who did not!
Then to Boston with iralith. Sunday evening and Monday I relaxed at his place, then got to truestories' place with only a small hitch ("No, Taxi Service, I'm not going from an address in Newton to a train station in ( Read more... ) -
All these world are belong to you
You know what?
2010: The Year We Make Contact is highly, highly underrated. It's been a long time since I've seen it, but I just rewatched it tonight with CUSFS, and damn. It's awesome. -
LET MY PEOPLE GO... on spring break
One more day of school! Yays! -
dv/dt
Accelerate, REM's new album, is awesome! I've been listening to it repeatedly since getting it a few days ago. It's not perfect, but it's sort of a relief to know that REM can still rock, since their last album, Around the Sun, was extremely lacking. And it is a real rock album-The Onion AV Club's review described it as a sort of missing link ( Read more... ) -
to whom it may concern...
I will be in Boston this weekend for JiffyCon, arriving Friday night at around 7:30. I'd love to see people on Friday night! And I also want to encourage Bos/Prov area people to come to the Con! It's fun! It's free! But I am leaving fairly directly from the Con back to NYC, so no hanging out on Saturday night for me. (It's for a good cause ( Read more... ) -
37 out of 40 ain't bad
Today I got to meet Jack Greenberg, who, among many other accomplishments, was one of the lawyers who argued Brown v. Board in 1954. I basically interrogated him during lunch about school desegregation, and his opinion about that issue vis-a-vis the future of the Supreme Court. It was, in a word, awesome ( Read more... ) -
Random Question
I saw or read something the other day about how much trouble the U.S. is in if anyone were to, oh, say, attack us. Because our military is coming apart at the seams and so many of them are overseas and have PTSD when they get back and so on and so forth. So, here's what I'm wondering: does Posse Comitatus cut both ways? That is, if the Chinese ( ( Read more... )