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Paris riots--a great excuse to start talking about the end of the West
Pat Buchanan, who's normally so apeshit I don't even listen to him, is calling the Paris riots the beginning of the end of Western (or at least European) civilization--in the sense of a distinct culture with basically a single long tradition stretching back to Athens. The thing that scares me is that many other people are actually saying the same ( Read more... ) -
Music list
New The Darkness single (One way ticket to hell {and back}): cheez factor-- +78%
Blink-182 actually has a greatest hits album: Why did parents ever give money to teenage girls factor-- +234 ( Read more... ) -
The Green Isle
No pics, sorry. Yet at least ( Read more... ) -
architecture in helsinki
that's a band name in case you were wondering, and the name of the band whose concert i went to last night ( Read more... ) -
of interest to at least some of you
Charles Bukowski's "Factotum" is being made into a movie.
Relevant link
Matt Dillon plays Bukowski, or more accurately Harry Chinaski.
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I had a dream that
I was in a McDonalds (which is weird itself) and Dick Cheney came and sat down across from me and started raving about how Patrick Fitzgerald was so unpatriotic. Then he started saying weird things about eating cabbage and his head exploded. -
Today is Winona Ryder's Birthday. I stole a birthday card for her.
Halloween Party meme:
Highlights:
beautifulrainda dressed as the love child of Howard Stern and Susan Lucci.
idiosyncrazy dressed as the Governor of Nebraska.
bawend didn't even show up and doesn't get any candy.
bloodjetpoetry dressed as Wesley Crusher from "Star Trek".
blueiblinksopen dressed as Mary-Kate Olsen with her very own conjoined ( Read more... ) -
Note
Sigur Ros's Takk is a lot, lot better at 4:30 in the morning. After a cup of coffee. While procrastinating finishing writing a paper on Sir Philip Sidney's "Defence of Poetry" (compared to Shelley's own Defence). People singing dramatically in foreign languages is so much more charming with birds chirping in the still-dark pre-pre-dawn ( Read more... ) -
Semi-surreal experience
Every once in awhile, I channel Jane Austen novels. I kid you not ( Read more... )