If you mention China to an average American who reads or watches the news at least once a year, they'll say this: China's an insane backwards land ruled by an oligarchy of despotic politicians, a tyrannical empire ridden with outdated propaganda and flatly ridiculous official statements, &c &c &c -- or something in that vein, if not quite so ( Read more... )

as i was writing that last one, I had just finished typing three proposals for a paper for english ( Read more... )

voting was lame. I was thinking to vote Working Families -- I don't like either Republicans or Democrats, they're all just suits to me -- but in line, my neighbor told me something about Working Families: that shit is a sham. Apparently they never run their own candidates but just put the Democrat on their ticket, and bank on the possibility that ( Read more... )

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At Will's house, we decided to watch "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", public domain on jonhs.net (whatever that site was). The music on this particular rendition, though, was kind of bad, so , we decided to substitute our own.  We took the longest two tracks in Will's library, the fourth movement, finale, from ( Read more... )

wtf

Some of the language in here is just astonishing. One would expect better from such a respected news institution. Unless you remember that "respected news institution" is just a euphemism for "imperial apologist".
The story, by the way, seems to be this: with the UN looking to add a Latin American country to the Security Council, and represent ( Read more... )

OUR CHICKENS RUN AROUND THE GRAVEYARD WITH POTS OF MESCALINE
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every time I pull an allnighter, the subsequent shower has me half asleep and suddenly experiencing some wonderful senseless vision, hallucination even. Today, after I had lathered my hair with the shampoo and stuff, putting my head under the stream of water and allowing it to break the shell of soap on my head suddenly suggested some game show ( Read more... )

my third post in 24 hours.

More and more these days I'm interested in what I can get out of a real piano, rather than the imitations and various voices of the keyboard, advanced for what they are but still ultimately lacking. The keyboard is a tool, but the piano is an instrument. Kind of sad that I don't see the piano as often as I'd like, living ( Read more... )

this morning I was pulling a stunt where I woke up every twenty minutes, afraid it was time to go to school, then let myself sleep a few minutes more, thought being, "I'll so wake up in time ( Read more... )

walked four miles today, in about an hour fifteen, not including the fifteen minute break for pizza. a couple of heards-on-the-street:

LITTLE GIRL: *screaming loudly*
EXASPERATED DAD: I'm sorry, honey, I just can't pick you up right now!
LITTLE GIRL: *screams again, then suddenly, still loud but weirdly articulate* But my knees are hurting!

OLD WOMAN: ( Read more... )