January 2011
5 posts
“Don’t worry, I have a guitar case full of wine and brandy.”
– This is what I will be saying in 10 minutes when I get to the dinner party I’m going to (my backpack’s zipper broke a few days ago, so I’ve been using my guitar case as a replacement).
December 2010
23 posts
The Evening's Target Purchases
1 Bag of Redvines, extra large
1 Bag of Kettled Corn
1 Yankee Candle, trial size (Island Cove scent)
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“Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.”
– Gore Vidal by way of Tyler Cowen by way of W.W..
I wish I didn’t feel this way, but I do more often than I’d like to admit. I think the only way of over coming this kind of ugly-but-understandable reaction is to try and get involved and support your friends in their missions. Then,...
Sweet Dreams!
Last night I had a dream about the cat I had growing up. In the dream I was laying in my old bed at my parents house, and under the covers I could feel my cat rubbing up against my legs. But then I’d dig around in the covers and try to find the cat, but I couldn’t. Then I’d feel the cat’s fur on another part of my body. Rinse, wash, repeat.
But then I woke up from the...
The Pop Fop: HAHA That Wikileaks Guy Got Arrested →
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I have made no secret of my dislike for Julian Assange on this tumblr, so when I was saw his sour face in a police car on the news as I sipped my Guinness I must confess a sly smile was cracked. I know it’s not a popular view to take, siding with the most powerful Nation-State in the world…
Its wrong to conflate Assange’s “heroism” with the issue of whether what...
Glenn Greenwald is Kind of a Badass, And WikiLeaks...
I don’t talk about politics very much on here because I don’t know anything that couldn’t be better put by putting up a couple of links and saying “I agree with these folks,” but I just wanted to point folks to Glenn Greenwald’s reporting on WikiLeaks. Some bullet points that Greenwald keeps correcting people on that are worth keeping in mind:
It is not true...
