so it was the last day of classes for this soon-to-be-graduate. i don't think it's hit me yet. although it was nice to go out for margaritas after class, and though for some unknown reason i went out and bought cigarettes, it feels like any other day ( Read more... )

i'm reading this really tedious book. it's called arabian jazz and it's by diana abu-jabar (who, incidentally, is going to be a featured speaker at some forum that my fiction class requires me to attend). i think the thing that really bugs me about this particular book is that all of the dialogue is spoken by arabs with arab accents. it's 400 pages ( Read more... )

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so picture this--it's friday night at 11:15, and my friend christie and i are walking down a fairly/badly lit street on our way to a club. we're not dressed up or anything, and we're excited about the drag show we're about to see. so we're walking and kinda talking, and all of a sudden these two young black guys walk quickly up to us. one of them ( Read more... )

Pick a band and answer only using that band's song titles ( Read more... )