This is basically what would have happened to me if I were awesome.

Hey all.

I'm in Austin, TX for SXSW (South by Southwest). One of the persons I'm here with is blogging our adventures here, so I won't duplicate and post updates of my own.

So I filled out my bracket while it was being announced, then watched ESPN's Bracketology show and found out that I had picked the same Final Four as Dick Vitale, who is actually my least favorite person on earth. Damn, this is embarrassing.

[My picks were: UConn (Nat. Champ), Duke (Runner-up), Boston College, UCLA]

( Enneagram meme. Basically accurate )

Grant tagged me with this, so I suppose I'm somehow obligated to complete it.

Guilt What is yours? Explain yourself Culinary: Onions, garlic
They taste so good, but smell so bad. Dammit
Literary: N/A I used to read James Bond and Star Wars novels, but that stopped awhile ago. I don't even read much fiction any more.Audiovisual: Jane Austen ( Read more... )

link"The innate human revulsion against desecration is much older than any monotheism: Its most powerful expression is in the Antigone of Sophocles. It belongs to civilization. I am not asking for the right to slaughter a pig in a synagogue or mosque or to relieve myself on a "holy" book. But I will not be told I can't eat pork, and I will not ( Read more... )

I just want to explain why I bought the DVD of Garden State, as Grant mercilessly called me out in my post about hating Zach Braff, may his name be purged from my memory ( Read more... )

Not coolLike probably most Dartmouth students, I immediately checked my facebook account to see if I had anything incriminating ( Read more... )

"Zach Braff and singer/actress Mandy Moore are reportedly heading for a wedding after the Scrubs star quietly asked her to marry him late last month. The couple are staying tight lipped about their plans, but Braff, 30, popped the question and presented Moore - his girlfriend for the past 18 months - with a $450,000, 4-carat princess-cut diamond- ( Read more... )

On Mary J. Blige's newest record, there is a recording of her "duet" with Bono at the Hurricane Rita relief concert, singing "One." "Duet" is in quotation marks because Bono does not deserve to be on the same fucking stage as her ( Read more... )