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Martin Amis on Blair...
Hands down, one of the best articles I've read this year. I regularly read the Guardian, but I missed this piece until just recently. It is superb. It also contains a word I hadn't seen before ("myrmidon" --meaning a servile follower), making the article a special pleasure. It's worthy reading anyway, even if you're not familiar or interested in ( Read more... ) -
art and tv
Why is everyone so upset about the Sopranos? It's all I've been hearing from a couple people for a couple of days now and I don't get it (especially as I don't watch the show). An abrupt fade to black? That's it? Really?
And now, something for me to gush over: Simon Schama has a show! On PBS! It's called the Power of Art and it will be re-broadcast ( Read more... ) -
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Please don't question me on why I know this; just appreciate. This appears to be the livejournal of the guy who played Dudley in "The Royal Tenenbaums" and Harris (one of the uber-geeks) in "Freaks and Geeks":
The best part? He appears to be EXACTLY like Harris on the show. I have no idea why that's so satisfying, but it really, really is.
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Neat-o!
- Oregon governor lives on $21 a week for food to prove the food stamps are too low.
- Maybe you're unhappy because life actually sucks.
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An open letter to winter and some other things
Dear Winter,
I am done with you. We are over. I said we should still be friends, but I was lying. Go the fuck away. It's April.
Love,
Sarah
On another note, if your primary source of food in a given day is soup, it's probably not wise to drink a mocha frappachino and expect it to affect you the same way as it usually would. Today I've felt like ( Read more... ) -
Theories of Physics as Women
This is highly, highly amusing.
My personal favorites:
3. Quantum mechanics is the girl you meet at the poetry reading. Everyone thinks she's really interesting and people you don't know are obsessed about her. You go out. It turns out that she's pretty complicated and has some issues. Later, after you've broken up, you wonder if her aura of mystery ( Read more... ) -
It can't possibly get any worse, right?
From toohotfortnr:
"Shiite death cults! U.S.-plus-Maliki apparently fought Shiite death cults in Najaf yesterday who plotted to blow up Najaf shrines -- not Sunni psychotics -- in an attempt to get the messiah's ass down to earth tout suite. Shades of the Machteret Yehudit! The Los Angeles Times quotes a dude saying, "Everyday someone claims he's ( Read more... ) -
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You know how when you spend several hours intensely focused on your research for a paper, endlessly mulling over facts and theories, that you start to lose your grip on reality....? Um, it's weird. I had a dream last night that Gerry Adams was speaking at one of the Provost Lecture Series that we have on campus. This had me really psyched. When I ( Read more... )
