I'm hijacking the lyric meme and changing some rules... Completely honest random shuffle made for a silly, difficult, un-fun scavenger hunt. I went through my library on random, but skipping any songs too out there or without memorable lyrics, or just plain stupid ones. So guess which songs these words belong to and I'll cross them out as they get ( Read more... )

This year in independent music has been a bit better than the last, but there haven't seemed to have been as many really stellar albums. Nothing along the lines of Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts, Ghosts of the Great Highway, or Mount Eerie (or any other cool albums with supernatural names). Nonetheless, such quantity made it pretty tough to ( Read more... )

So for some reason, Lizzie's company let her join the V.I.P. fun at the Sports Illustrated Sportsmen of the Year extravaganza which celebrated our hometown heroes the Boston Red Sox. She admits that she couldn't recognize most of the people, but it was jam-packed with former and present Red Sox, Celtics, Patriots and other celebreties. Curt ( Read more... )

Hi again,
While the fall semester at all the American colleges and universities begin to wind down, the Parisian semester only begins to pick up. I only have a few grades to quantify my success here, so the jury is still out. I sure feel like I've learned a lot, especially in my course on Frano-African relations. Have anybody's world history ( Read more... )

I want to share with you an excerpt from English Prime, the idea of eliminating the verb "to be" from conversation and writing. All your English professors have bugged you with it (mostly in the name of sloppy passive tense or "action" verbs) for no good reason, but this site gives a very clear explanation of its advantages.
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So I finally had my first successful experience with the Parisian music scene!
( Getting In )

Bonjour
My computer's all better! Just in time to write to you all about our excursion to Provence and to show you some pictures.
( Provence, Prusaskys )

Well, this cheers me up a little. And it's well written too (despite the forced headline)!

All signs point to George W. Bush taking a second term in office. I look forward to four more years of violated civil rights, record defecits, job losses, pre-emptive wars, fear-based policy, ignorance of world opinion, privitization of health care, and all-around good times.
(I apologize for the unsolicited editorial)
Sarah and I stayed up until ( Read more... )