God forbid Apathy!

God forbid Satire!

God forbid Belief!

A day packing, gathering shit together, and cleaning up the dorm. From Portland to San Francisco: 17 hours on a train with Vonnegut, Dostoevsky, Kerouac, Tim, Ulysses, and snacks. 48 hours in San Francisco to dig as much as possible, see as many people as possible: Berkeley, downtown, a smoky apartment, quaint Italian restaurants, public ( Read more... )

I'm starting to feel a bit intellectually stagnated. Or like a physicist trying to solve problems using a desktop calculator instead of a TI-89 Platinum. And yet, if I could describe exactly how I am becoming, I would say I'm closer now than I ever have been before. If I could articulate all of what I would in pieces argue is who I wish to become, ( Read more... )

"We all look with distaste on people who arrogantly pretend to a reputation to which they are not entitled; but equally to be condemned are those who, through lack of moral fibre, fail to live up to the reputation which is theirs already."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II, Paragraph 61.

So my dorm does not reek of pot, dirty laundry, stale food, and cheap incense.
I think I've succeeded in this regard.

It was a particularly odd day, if by odd we mean differing slightly from a norm. Breakfast was an old frozen burrito and lunch was sourdough toast with butter and juice. The evening might consist of washing dishes in the sink upstairs, all of which can be carried there at once. Tea. A phone call. A day in which only the bare minimum needed to be ( Read more... )

And then Ulysses, Tim, and I carried all the picnic benches from the cafeteria to a far off place near a tree, and stacked them in a pyramid so as to make it possible to climb that tree. We replaced the benches with a lone armchair in the middle of the field, and threw a tablecloth plus salt and pepper over the topmost bench. In the morning we ( Read more... )

My verbosity assumes that everyone thinks the exact same way as I do.

Hey, Portland - here I come.

Hypothetical situation: The Islamic-Fascist Nation, Global Warming, and all other versions of Armageddon, are political conspiracies in order to push candidates of their respective parties into office through fear ( Read more... )