My phone is off. [STOP]
Can be reached by [STOP]
smoke signals or messages [STOP]
rolled in bottles. [STOP]

I should be writing in this fairly regularly again once Upward Bound starts up on the 25th. I'll be able to regale you with stories about high schoolers you don't know via my campus internet connection. I'll be living in Igoe with 60 kids ( Read more... )

Today I found out that the new Pope was once a member of the Hitler Youth. He has referred to homosexuality as an "objective disorder." And he said that gay marriage is "the legalization of evil." He finds all other religions "gravely deficient." In 1966, he condemned rock music as "evil."

And who says you can't learn anything from t.v.?

Today I helped my friend Brittany with her film project. She has to make a three minute action sequence. I went with her to Wal*Mart to pick out an air gun for Mendeley to use to hold up a gas station during the shoot before fleeing the scene of the crime and hiding in the back seat of my car. There he waits for me to come along so he can issue ( Read more... )

May a wounded and deteriorating Christ smile on your day.

I'm spending this Spring Break in Fredonia. I'm hoping to put at least a fraction of it to practical, productive use. Class related reading, unrelated writing, cleaning my car and the apartment, figuring out what to do with the rapidly approaching summertime, etc. So far I've spent it ... reintroducing myself to the internet community. Here I am on ( Read more... )

"Hey," we interject in the crowded bar. "How was your break? Do anything cool?" We answer loudly while jostled by the strangers and friends crowded around the conversation. Maybe population density has nothing to do with the bumps and brushes. Maybe they are leaning in hoping to add conversation starters to their social rolodexes. They undoubtedly ( Read more... )

An unhealthy percentage of my blood relatives are right wingers. Consequently, on a daily basis my e-mailbox usually has at least one forwarded piece of e-propaganda from some concerned family member or another trying to show me, the misguided liberal youth, the light and the way as established by the Republican party. I never know how to respond ( Read more... )

My big idea went nowhere ( Read more... )

If you've read my last two or three entries, you'll find it pretty clear that I have a great, big problem with the retrogressive thinking taking place at Tops. For days now, I've been trying to think of a way to make any sort of impact on the ignorance in this community. My first impulse was to write a letter to Tops Corporate outlining official ( Read more... )