( On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning by Haruki Murakami )

no, i didn't watch the oscars, but i did happen to notice that the departed won best picture.

just gonna repost this:

my six word review of The Departed

INFERNAL AFFAIRSWAS ( Read more... )

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Public Colleges as "Engines of Inequality", nytimes editorial ( Read more... )

just finished watching stay.

what an amazing movie. first blush impressions provoke me to say things like "this is one of my new favorite movies." does this pass the "michael would buy this so he can rewatch it whenever the mood so strikes him" test? yes, yes it does.

i'm not really in a mood to do my own review now especially since i've read ( Read more... )

friends cut! if you're surprised, well, that's probably why.


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Court: Woman Can't Say No After Start Of Sex, WBAL (via the_autumn_knewPOSTED: 9:13 am EST October 31, 2006 ( Read more... )

Sarabande on Attaining the Age of Seventy-seven

The harbingers are come. See, see their mark;
White is their colour, and behold my head.
Long gone the smoke-and-pepper childhood smell ( Read more... )

reading dred scott v. sanford makes me want to puke in anger. it's hard to read it dispassionately for the quality or lack thereof of purely legal constitutional argumentation. lots of historical arguments, textual arguments, some structural arguments.

oh yes, and one particularly charming example of a prudential/historic argument:

It cannot be ( Read more... )