I think the name "Ziggy" is sticking to our fish. Melissa bought a bunch of fish-support items (water clarifier, etc) and we changed his water. I need to find some kind of lamp to put near him so he can stay warm.
In other news, I got a lesson about glam rock vs. hair rock vs. theatrical rock from Damian last night. Who knew there were such distinctions?
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12:16:09 PM,
Thursday 20 May 2004
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I had a guitar bit from "Hollow Log" looping through my head for an hour before I could identify it. See, this is why I need to get a copy of everything Beck has ever recorded, immediately.
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11:42:33 AM,
Thursday 20 May 2004
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Telefrancais! Telefrancais!
Clearly perhaps the best qwantz.com fanart ever.
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03:24:40 PM,
Wednesday 19 May 2004
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What she asked of me at the end of the day
Caligula would have blushed
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12:06:05 PM,
Wednesday 19 May 2004
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Mo' Betta Beta: Melissa brought home a Beta fish (Betta splendens, aka the Siamese Fighting Fish) which her mother had been given and didn't want. We're trying to think what to name him -- it ought to be something glam rock, on account of his iridescence.
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07:12:18 PM,
Tuesday 18 May 2004
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It's better in the States.
C'est mieux aux Etats-Unis.
Es mejor en los Estados Unidos.
In den Staaten ist es besser.
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04:01:46 PM,
Tuesday 18 May 2004
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Feel like hurling, in an odd way.
What's wrong with me?
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07:15:26 PM,
Friday 14 May 2004
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Do you realize?
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03:24:19 PM,
Friday 14 May 2004
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Well well well. Guess nobody likes a trash-talker.
Maybe I should quit?
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02:13:02 PM,
Wednesday 12 May 2004
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"I was in the feminine protection aisle, trying to sort through the endless sea of products, and I was floored when it hit me - not one box had an ounce of style. Where was the fun, the feminine flair?"
Sometimes I just hate capitalism.
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12:23:06 PM,
Tuesday 11 May 2004
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Thinking about what to do with the rest of my life. So far I have:
-Linguist (non-academic);
-sociologist (non-academic);
-librarian.
What the hizzle. Any advice?
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02:40:35 PM,
Friday 7 May 2004
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Arrest report of someone you don't know: Once again the defendant was performing some sort of dance and was asked to leave the premises by OFC Harrington.
Also I would like to pimp Subrevolt right about now.
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01:21:05 PM,
Friday 7 May 2004
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I really, really (really) want an artificial moustache. (I think I'd look pretty good in one.) But what style to get? The Old Timey? The Professor? The Dali? Or should I just buy a week's worth?
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01:12:55 PM,
Friday 7 May 2004
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On media coverage of Abu Ghraib, via Respectful of Otters (teh awesome):
From the Wall Street Journal:
"The Washington Post, meanwhile, quotes a former prisoner who says the exercise routine was too demanding and the music was unpleasant:
"The black sack the troops placed over his head was removed only briefly during the next nine days of interrogation, conducted by U.S. officials in civilian and military clothes, he said. He was forced to do knee bends until he collapsed, he recalled, and black marks still ring his wrists from the pinch of plastic handcuffs. Rest was made impossible by loudspeakers blaring, over and over, the Beastie Boys' rap anthem, 'No Sleep Till Brooklyn.' "
That some ex-prisoners are bellyaching about trivia does not, of course, mean that all was well in Abu Ghraib."
::cough::
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07:57:26 PM,
Thursday 6 May 2004
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Hypothetically speaking: What if, after September 11th, the Bush administration realized that having a nation at war improved their political fortunes, and they decided to invade Iraq to increase Muslim (particularly Arab) hostility towards us? Which would make for more terrorist attacks against Americans, which would keep voters scared, which would get our "war president" re-elected.
Does anybody else ever have crazy thoughts like this? I think I'm more likely to because I still can't figure out the administration's motive for going to war
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03:18:05 PM,
Thursday 6 May 2004
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An article in the Times discussing the mentality of the Abu Ghraib torturers, with reference to the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment (that's a good site, check it out) and the Milgram Experiment.
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01:06:17 PM,
Thursday 6 May 2004
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Silver ink on a black wall, 10th and Howard:
riot girls not dead.
Awwwww.
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05:38:10 PM,
Wednesday 5 May 2004
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Well well well:
Disney Forbidding Distriubtion of Film that Criticizes Bush.
Who else is not surprised?
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11:58:53 AM,
Wednesday 5 May 2004
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An interview with the straight-up amazing Stephin Merritt.
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04:38:31 PM,
Monday 3 May 2004
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Punctuation Follies: Today I saw a piece of paper that had been slipped behind the glass of a weekly newspaper box. It read:
DEPRESSED
READ
THE BIBLE
PSALM 34
Also I saw a coffee shop called "Coffee Mine", which struck me as a perfect evocation of my own sentiments (especially when punctuated thusly: "Coffee? Mine!").
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03:56:21 PM,
Thursday 29 April 2004
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Now undergoing geographical confusion.
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12:50:51 PM,
Wednesday 28 April 2004
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Best website name ever: ultimateungulate.com.
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07:28:20 PM,
Wednesday 21 April 2004
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I just joined bigchurch.com. My handle is bigtop4u and I'm "looking for a man who loves Jesus as much as he loves barebacking".
Query: Should I be ashamed of myself?
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06:06:35 PM,
Wednesday 21 April 2004
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Sometimes I find myself utterly and unbearably predictable. (E.g.: "Here comes a wry, parenthetical comment," I say to myself. By the way, I do that in speech as well.) I wonder if the self-loathing I was so practiced until recently has matured into not self-acceptance but rather a jaded sort a self-recognition.
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01:56:07 PM,
Wednesday 21 April 2004
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Since alla y'all (maybe more like halfa y'all?) are Neal Stephenson fans, here's today's interview in Salon. (You'll have to do the Daypass hokey-pokey and turn yourself around. That's what it's all about.)
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12:17:19 PM,
Wednesday 21 April 2004
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I've started promising local Johnnies (of whom I know two. Do their cats count?) that I will bring things back from the campus bookstore for them. (Things like Joe Sachs's translations of Aristotle, for example.) I feel like the dad from Beauty and the Beast.
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11:33:52 AM,
Wednesday 21 April 2004
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::cough:: I'm a chaotic good half-elf cleric ranger.
Now I have something to talk about at parties. And so can you. (Thanks to Cassie. Hope you have a password.)
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04:22:33 PM,
Monday 19 April 2004
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How Tender was my Loin: Walked through a colorful neighborhood today on my way to a shoe repair shop. (This is the second pair I've had resoled lately, and each time it cost almost as much as the shoes themselves did. I have to access all the anticonsumerist memes in my head to fork the cash over. "And they're small, locally-owned businesses! Isn't that good?" Bleh.) In the sunshine it looked pretty nice. There were corner stores and Vietnamese restaurants everywhere. I thought maybe I'd like to move there, but then started wondering about how it would be late at night.
Which reminds me: I saw a pimp walking past the construction site this morning. How did I know his profession, you ask? The white fedora and full-length silver fox coat tipped me off.
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06:22:58 PM,
Friday 16 April 2004
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Zombie Bunny.
From personal experience I can say that this is a completely accurate depiction.
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01:06:01 PM,
Friday 16 April 2004
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I heart illegal art: Justin Artifice, my favorite local artist, has his site back up. Go marvel. And here is an article about him and his work.
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11:27:17 AM,
Friday 16 April 2004
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The Art of War.
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04:37:36 PM,
Thursday 15 April 2004
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Totally fascinating NYT article on cultural change (for the better) in troop of baboons. By Natalie Angier, whose Woman: An Intimate Geography I want to read. Link via Ms. blog.
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02:39:56 PM,
Thursday 15 April 2004
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melsonius: so you know when that troy movie is supposed to come out?
me: it can't come out soon enough, IMO
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melsonius: I'm still hoping for action figures
melsonius: "Achilles With Black Horrible Death Action!" "Four Diffferent Sounds of Rage!"
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04:16:11 PM,
Wednesday 14 April 2004
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That shirt looks good on you, Utahraptor.
It looks good on your body.
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02:52:46 PM,
Wednesday 14 April 2004
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Now this is a fascinating meme:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
"The worship of a single deity was an almost unprecedented step: the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaton had attempted to worship the Sun God and to ignore the other traditional deities of Egypt, but his policies were immediately reversed by his successor." Karen Armstrong, A History of God.
I've been reading this for a few weeks now. Good stuff.
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02:04:20 PM,
Wednesday 14 April 2004
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Would you consider it normal for a fifteen-year-old boy in 1994 to have an Andy Gibb poster on his ceiling? How about if he weren't gay?
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01:31:40 PM,
Wednesday 14 April 2004
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site & script courtesy of Moss