"Vast, Titanic, inhuman Nature ... She does not smile on him as in the plains. She seems to say sternly, why came ye here before your time? This ground is not prepared for you."

Thoreau, in Cronon

today is the day i first saw wikipedia quoted in a bonafide academic paper by tenured faculty.

good grief.

open letter to the girl in the gray SUV and paris hilton sunglasses ( Read more... )

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if you do enough research, hilarity ensues.

i'm on Google Scholar, looking at a book called Ideology and US Foreign Policy . one of the chapters is called "The Perils of Revolution", but in the hyperlink menu has it misspelled as...well, the penis of revolution ( Read more... )

i had a great time. they're a fun band, and the johns crack me up. plus mork from ork was a repeating joke. they played ana ng and dr. worm, so that was great. otherwise, their set was mostly from the new album (which sounds good -- i'll have to check it out). and what wasn't was from flood ( Read more... )

but it still hurts. it hurts bad.


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