"During this conflict slain British planters and army officers were found with their heads entombed in their bowels in a grisly mimicry of slave dismemberment."

This paragraph is the leading contender for the best paragraph on epistemology I have read this semester (this is mostly for Dom ( Read more... )

So, after twiddling away for a couple of months I am proud to present (to anyone still checking their LJ) the latest Kommandar offering! I have learned some new tricks since last time, and have also mercilessly tried to create a cohesive product. So, without further waste...


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Another day another dollar.

School has been good, turbulent, etc.

Thom and I have become the Most Dangerous Soldiers at UMass, doing battle with all and destroying stuff.

Is off to a great start. My new job has me roaming around camp and interacting with scouts and their leaders a ton more than last year. I have been going on swamp canoe trips, climbing boulders and crawling through caves, climbing mountains, cleaning mountains of poop and toilet paper out of toilets, leading songs at dinner time, putting up an ( Read more... )

Whilst on a gentlemanly stroll with my good fellow Sir Thomas, something quite unexpected occurred. A fellow traveler of the dark night came upon us and decided us worthy subjects of inquiry. Sniffing around the many lawns of Revere, this fellow lived totally care-free with such an unbridled enthusiasm that it earned much comment from Sir Thomas ( Read more... )

So I saw the pope give papel mass in Yankee Stadium to fifty-thousand people. I felt a lot of things. Cold, tired, ripped off having to pay five bucks for a fucking hotdog (one of only two meals I had all day), bored, angry, and above all - let down. The whole thing was structured like some fucking juvenile Disney ticker-take parade, complete with ( Read more... )

John Adams on HBO is one of the best things the Televisor Set has ever brought into existence.

" This anguished man dressed as a female hedgehog communicates a great deal about what it is to be human. "

Two amazing developments ( Read more... )