Sometimes, I think that perhaps I may not be well suited to this whole "working for the Man" thing.

Well, I couldn't take it any more. I ripped open one of my official transcripts to make sure Day Hall didn't fuck up and forget my transfer credits and/or refuse to admit I graduated ( Read more... )

Fuck. What a day. Someone (something?) has stolen my copy of Slouching Towards Bethlehem so I can't explain to you what the Manson murders have to do with John Phillips and the evolution of the concept of consent in a society where no one understands that anyone else is real, where everyone is drifting through their own little dimensions that only ( Read more... )

""With the really intelligent people, it's almost a matter of inbreeding at this point," said John Phillips [of The Mamas and The Papas], whose would-be aristocratic airs defined the mood of the times."
- Barney Hoskins, Waiting for the Sun: A Rock and Roll History of Los Angeles
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Since this has become an alternating book reviews and life drama blog of late, today you get.... life drama ( Read more... )

When I was in high school, I was very fond of a book entitled The Taking of Mariasburg
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Some books that suck suck from start to finish. Others start out ok, even quite good, and then commence to sucking partway through and burn up all the goodwill they had previously generated ( Read more... )

My brother's court date was today. He has to write the cop an apology letter - which is bullshit - but he didn't get a fine, probation, or anything like that; in fact even the speeding ticket that was ostensibly the point of the whole exercise was dismissed. Of course he still has to pay for his lawyer and all.

A couple of nights ago I dreamed I was a pirate sailing the Great Lakes, and instead of a parrot I had two turkey vultures that would projectile vomit on my enemies in the heat of battle. I was never much for the pirate thing but this dream kind of kicked ass actually.

This may or may not have anything to do with my recent disappearance.

You know, I wasn't aware that I was actually a fan of modern dance, but holy shit....

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