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Hello J. James Duran & Editors

I've been going out now for quite some time, and in my years here  in Gainesville I have never seen 2 things that have been more definite.  Your bitterness towards the club scene, as well as how distinguished Rue Bar is from every other club in Gainesville. I've lived here for 4. ( Read more... )

so st. patrick's day was an interesting affair... our plans to go to bennigans was a bust since no one could be there on time, including myself, so only jorge and jenn went. however, the night was an improvement as myself, jorge, nikki, jenn, rich, jp, michelle, and jp's friend allison head out to Brick City. I wanted to go to Market Street cause ( Read more... )

i encourage... no i order everyone on March 22nd to go out to your local record store and buy:

M.I.A.
Arularwhy? because she is the daughter of Arular, one of the leaders of the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka, people who pioneered modern terrorist tactics (okay, not the greatest reasons) She fled the country at the age of 9 with her mother and ( Read more... )

22 has started off on a good foot. I went today to SoBe with Nikki, Jorge, Erika, Michelle, Shannon, Liddy, Bryan and some other people where we drank and laid out. My back is brunt as fuck cause it was a nice 75 degrees so it didnt feel hot but apperantly that doesn't mean the sun cant do damage ( Read more... )

today is the day i came out of my mom's birf canal (AKA vagina) and made this world better for all to live in... yes, today is my birfday...

-JD

im depressed, so depressed i constantly feel like crying. on top of orange & blue (not going exactly the way i want it to), 2 term papers and my social life, my parents are leaving the US in... oh... about 5 days. now i know, i should be celebrating, and i was until i got home to miami today. seeing the apartment empty, my mom and dad pinching ( Read more... )

I hate this fucking idiot nation. I can't wait to graduate and move elsewhere. I don't want to live in a country where you don't have the right to your own body, where you cannot decide whom you can or cannot marry and where Chrisitianity is used for political decision making even though a lot of the population isn't Christian. You are an idiot ( Read more... )

the iPod is the greatest invention known to man. it fundamentally the most important invention since the wheel. I felt this semester i should reward my with a Apple iPod + hp (thats hp's windows iPod) because i've been so good. 20GB hard drive means the thing has more memory than my little old laptop. no bother. now back to paying attention to it ( Read more... )

a new title is attached to my name now... Co Editor-In-Chief Jose Duran is now my new name... and please address me as such... I was picked to co-lead the Orange & Blue Magazine this semester because of my humanitarian and cultural approach to life to balance out the political and structural approach of the other Editor-In-Chief... i'm cultured :-)

if i've learned one thing is that people can be highly unappreciative. why can't people just appreciate things you do for them and move on? i know i can be hard headed and not say "thank you" for things people do for me, but it doesn't mean i don't appreciate it, because i definitely show it in other ways. when people do things for me, it is ( Read more... )