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“The commercial crises... by their periodical return, put the existence of the entire bourgeois society on its trial, each time more threateningly. In these crises, a great part, not only of the existing products, but also of the previously created productive forces, is periodically destroyed. In these crises, there breaks out an epidemic that, in ( Read more... )

DIRECTIONS:
- Go to Google image search.
- Type in your answer to each question.
- Choose a picture
- Use this website (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php) to make your collage.
- Save the image for use in this note.
- Tag the people whose mosaics you want to see.
- Or just say "fuck it."

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The show tonight with the 2 Tone Runts was AMAZING.  The attendance and sales could have gone better: lots of people who said they'd come didn't and the Runts are barely going to break even financially on it.  But it was a profound exercise in the interconnectedness that makes humanity great.  They are all such wonderful human beings with such warm ( Read more... )

I'm on my third starting-over of this squib paper for Phonology.  This is frustrating mainly because every time I get a few pages into writing an analysis I run head-first into a reason why it's wrong or why another one would be better.  I'm confident I've got the right idea now, but the downside is that the explanation that's most consistent is ( Read more... )

Alright, I've got almost all my homework done.  I still have to turn in an 8-12 page paper by Monday of Spring Break, which I have not started on, but still: working on said paper over coffee and free good ol' down-home cooking at the parents' will be much more enjoyable than having it interspersed with the daily grind of class and chores ( Read more... )

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I have not had a free moment today.  School, then homework, then exam, then more homework, right up until 1 a.m. (i.e. right now ( Read more... )

Everywhere I look there are more reasons to be afraid.  And more reasons to be angry.  When I was a kid I never thought I'd be on my knees begging for a chance to be a mailman when I finished college.  These are strange times we live in.http://

That Colorado was so nice, but I'm Minnesota's son
Even when the cold winds blow, in the darkness
And the light
And the young folks search for meaning here, and the old folks know there's none
At your window you can see the world
And it's turning
And it's gone

And the stars at night:
Why do they make you cry?
Don't you think that I am coming home?

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