If Anna-Lisa and I wrote a completely nonsensical play that was a critique on bourgeoise apathy, socialism, dadaism, Bolshevik Russia, sexy librarians, and the Importance of Being Earnest, it would be "Travesties" by Tom Stoppard. (For those of you who were enchanted by "The Real Inspector Hound" it's the same playwright ( Read more... )

My RA is stepping down from her position due to personal reasons ( Read more... )

Last night at dinner a half-stoned Public Policy major queried me on a slough of popular contemporary fiction which I had not read and have little-to-no interest in reading ( Read more... )

This bug has knocked my immune system flat on its ass ( Read more... )

All this is as it should be; the world needs Gradus. But Gradus should not kill kings. Vinogradus should never, never provoke God. Leningradus should not aim his pea-shooter at people even in dreams, because if he does, a pair of colossally thick, abnormally hairy arms will hug him from behind and squeeze, squeeze, squeeze. - Pale Fire

Tolstoy is ( Read more... )

I. Martha Graham as photographed by Imogen Cunningham
II. Imogen Cunningham
III. Isadora Duncan
IV. The Ship by Salvador Dali
V. The sea
VI. Ariel's song from The Tempest
VII. Full Fathom Five by Sylvia Plath
VIII. Escape velocity
IX. Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
X. Roman numerals

Reply to this post and I give you a letter of the alphabet. Then you select 10 songs (preferably songs that you enjoy) that start with the letter given to you and post them in your journal (with these or similar instructions ( Read more... )

UGH.

French compositions suck ass.

PS

I caught myself using the term "kickin' it" yesterday. And um. I was at Albertson's the other day and saw a magazine that said, "ENTER OUR BACK-TO-SCHOOL CONTEST AND YOU COULD WIN SOME COOL SHWAG FOR YOUR ROOM"

<3 Tim. I miss hearing him say things like "shwag-ass-shit." Oh alas, alack...

I think that the "R" and "L" in RL Stine should stand for "Rumplestiltskin Lavadora" rather than "Robert Louis", which is what I had determined previously, as he has the same initials as Robert Louis Stevenson.

PS

Lavadora means "washing machine."

By the by, Smackey the Frog is from England. I googled it. I couldn't find any pictures of him though, which made me sad, but oh well ( Read more... )