remember the "asian tigers" from the early 90s ( Read more... )

for the sake of excessive simplicity, here is my understanding of why the federal government now has a controlling interest in both bear stearns and AIG. or more precisely, why this would have all happened if we lived in a world where the things that controlled how value was created and destroyed followed some basic law of plausibility ( Read more... )

so after i found myself making drunken "sarah palin's daughter is a slut" jokes last night, i got to thinking ( Read more... )

my house might not have fleas ( Read more... )

jesse helms is dead ( Read more... )

sweet marathon-running HIV positive butch bottom jesus h christ in a woven bamboo chicken basket of feelings.

you don't even know.

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left philly on a whim, failed to take the same chinatown bus as friends on their way to manhattan, met a lovely traveler by the name of missa, shared chocolate and strawberries ( Read more... )

note to self: you will need at least 3 more giant fake leaves to complete the effect. and at least one string of LEDs per leaf (they come in birds and flowers too!)

last night i gave myself blisters putting together a cabinet named EFFEKTIV

giant fake leaf as bed canopy

pieces of mirror stuck to walls

more storage space

LED- enhanced bed (7 potential colors, plus the ones on the leaf that simulate fireflies and dewdrops)

ikea-ing the blues away.

finally decorating after 9 months

making my room into a place i finally want to live in

making my room into a wood-sprite-tree-house-

missed this until just now, but yo ( Read more... )