June 2008
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Where I Lived This Spring
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It’s days like these (rainy, dark, cold, &c) when I miss being in Athens, where there is a cafe every fifteen paces with stunning views of the Acropolis in my neighborhood, and of course, oranges. Lots of them.
Then again, there is probably a heat wave there now.
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“i fell in love with a boy, and i leaned against a tree. the tree bent over and...”
– found in my old Yahoo Mail inbox. I have the weirdest freakin’ friends. Don’t even ask me about the one where a bionic woman washes ashore on an Australian beach and runs away with Diego Luna.
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In which I finally attend a baseball game
Thanks to the Oberlin College Summer Research Institute, a few of us went to see the Indians play last night. It has done nothing to change my opinion that baseball is boring. The fireworks were fantastic though.
A few pictures over here.
PHAISTOS DISC A FORGERY? →
Holy $&^#! If this is true, then the many things I own with the disc image on them are lies!
(On the plus side I’ll feel better about not going to Crete and not seeing the damn thing.)
“After hearing the Russian national anthem, I yearned to live in a nationalistic...”
– A reader from the US emailing the Guardian MBM coverage of Russia vs Spain.
Been away, back again →
Has it really been over a month since I last posted? In that span of time I’ve returned to the States and started my job with the library as the Reference Assistant (with Academic Commons somewhere…
Just kickin’ it like Tae-bo, Losing My...
1984 in three lines or less
WINSTON: Don’t tell the Party, but sex is way better than totalitarianism.
EVERYONE: Surprise! We’re the Party.
WINSTON: Oh, rats.
from Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less
“You talk about your life and tell dick jokes.”
– Anthony Bourdain. But to be honest, I feel the same way about this whole Classics business. -‘Oh, you study Ancient Greek, how impressive!’ —‘No, I study dick jokes.’
The Fate of The Sentence: Is the Writing On the... →
nostrich:
Hey, look everyone, another news article about how text-messaging children are killing the English language.
People who don’t write and speak in coherent sentences, Morreau says, don’t succeed in communication. He is especially concerned about “the death of the good sentence” — one that imparts clear and concise information.
And this is where the idiocy of this claim really comes...
The last paper I wrote
“…and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I...”
– Ulysses, James Joyce. Which I really should read at some point, to be able to keep my liberal-arts-school-goer licence. Also, Happy Bloomsday, all.
Going Faster Than a Rollercoaster →
Yes, another Muxtape, ‘cause I just have that much time on my hands.
PS I am so very late to the ‘The Dodos’ party.
“Loyalties and national identity are shaped…“a little where one is born and a lot...”
– Alfredo di Stefano, from this interview.
The Perfect Philosophy Exam →
2. Has this question vexed philosophers for centuries?
via Crooked Timber.
“PETA is dark, it’s the occult.”
– Fr Mick McAndrew. Come now, PETA has its many, many faults, but surely being occult is not one of them? (via MadPriest)
The Wombats covering a popular tune.
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Good Girls Never Give It Up On The First Night →
I tried to put together a summer mix, failed miserably, and ended up with this. It’s still vaguely summery though, The Teenagers especially.
I’m particularly fond of The Stills’ Being Here (being heeeeyeeeeeaaare). Caitlin go listen to it now now now. I’d send it to you but you are probably asleep.
tuneage:
Sigur Ros - “Gobbledigook”
I don’t...
Duties and Responsibilities, Part I
1. Man the Reference Desk in the afternoons.
2. Do catalogue look-ups of certain titles.
3. Water the plants in the building.
Gee, they never told me about the ‘watering plants’ thing in my library internship. I now hold the lives of every plant in the Mudd building in my hands.
“I’m surprised Oberlin doesn’t have the Washington Report on Middle...”
– Some guy at the Ref Desk today. (We do have it, just online. Also, shut up, guy.)
“You get somebody to explain the Trinity to you, they’ll say “Well...”
– Bill Bailey. Man, if I’d known this sooner writing my paper would’ve been much easier.
Your Debut Album
This is an old meme, but I’m doing it anyway:
1 - Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to Random quotations: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
If you want to do this again, you’ll hit refresh to...