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Stupid community college kids
It's 2:30 in the morning, and I am reading articles on Ernest Hemingway and James Baldwin for a term paper that I hope to have done by Monday afternoon. I've got Final Fantasy playing on my iPod, and I can still hear the neighbors acting up. Jerks. -
Hipster or hippie?
Oh yeah, also... I took this picture over the weekend in a bathroom stall in Pioneertown (aka B.F.E. place formerly used to shoot old westerns).
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But who will play Lita Ford?
From an article about the next movie in the Twilight series:
In addition to New Moon, [Dakota] Fanning and [Kristen] Stewart will team up on the The Runaways [sic], a drama following the all-girl punk band of the same name. Stewart plays Joan Jett in the film, while Fanning plays lead singer Cherie Currie.
That... um... Well, let's just stick with ( Read more... ) -
Oscar punning
So Max and I are thinking of having an Oscar party, for which we want to make a pun-tastic menu (because we like the idea of doing something cheesy), based on the pictures nominated for awards. Here's what we have thus far ( Read more... ) -
Lost in Spanglish
Am sitting on my balcony, enjoying the sun and reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. It's really good but peppered with way more Spanish than I understand-- words that I cannot even look up in an online translator. It's got great imagery and a great sense of culture (both Dominican and nerd). A couple of things I just read ( Read more... ) -
A blaze of glory
So...my hair dryer attacked me today. I was in the bathroom, drying my hair (as one does with a hair dryer) when it suddenly shut off. For a second, I thought I merely had to press the reset button, but while I still had it poised above my head, it started shooting sparks! I yelped and threw it into the sink, where it continued to short circuit and ( Read more... ) -
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
I'm at home in LA right now. I came back for Chinese New Year, and I meant to go back to the desert in time for class Monday night, but I started hacking up a lung and feeling feverish/looking like death, and I spent most of Sunday asleep, so I stayed here to see a doctor. My usual one retired a while back, so I had to see a new one who asked me a ( Read more... ) -
I can speak two of those languages!
From a New York Times article:
For well over two centuries, the United States has been vastly more diverse than its ruling families. Now the Obama family has flipped that around, with a Technicolor cast that looks almost nothing like their overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly Protestant predecessors in the role. The family that produced Barack and ( Read more... ) -
Waking from a national nightmare
In less than nine hours, there will no longer be a President George W. Bush-- only a former president George W. Bush. The idea of that makes me feel a little giddy. Right now, it's more exciting than getting Barack Obama as president.
Rex flew out to DC for the inauguration, which means that both my brothers are in DC right now. I don't think ( Read more... )
