1. The shit-eating grin on Colbert's face as he introduced the Pavements last night. If ever you needed confirmation that your life was fkn rad, having them on your show would probably do the trick ( Read more... )

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So I ran across this meme today. Given everything we've been talking about, wolodymyr, thelican, and all y'all, about seeing and showing and being seen to show and the 25things meme and twitter, etc., well, I find it's ( timely. )

So I'm settling somewhat into a routine, and have even gotten a little reading done. Once I move into the room on rue de Charenton, where I will have a desk and bookshelves, I will feel even more secure. My pattern has been to read in French during the day and reward myself with related texts in English in the evening. The past two days' readings ( Read more... )

played the scriaben with alex and brooke tonight and LO i came in last. genius in a kid-suit, as he has famously said of himself.


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we talked about the uh-oh! [of encountering the beloved/text as other] and the jean-luc nancy. i ran through the lacan we'd been tracking all quarter, which helped, but one student was still not grokking, so Dylan rehearsed what Jody said in lecture. i then asked them to remember the first time they fell in love, and two students admitted to never ( Read more... )

i would like to express to you all, in all seriousness, how much i love the smell of LOVE'S BABY SOFT. i went looking for "charlie" today for a dear friend's birthday (she's so fucked-up-indie-rock-charlie), and it smelled terrible (the charlie, that is). i saw the lbs and knew it was for me - such a scent from my childhood (not even adolescence, ( Read more... )

"maybe love proper has more in common with, say, the kind of meteoric impact that killed off the dinosaurs than the slow evolution that created them? as for evolution, Darby Crash pointed out it's a process way too slow to save our souls. i mean, what else can so properly kill the past while reviving it at the same time?"
-sk, 2005

this was helpful today:

http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2004/11/why_kerry_lost.html

met with students all afternoon, spent a lot of time processing, feel all tore up right now. i can't do this alone.

I turned thirty-five friday, and it was a good birthday. my boss bought me lunch, i talked to my family at the compound for an hour, another hour with sean who is well, my neighbors c and d pitched in and got me a dvid player and kill bill (both volumes), made me dinner and threw me a party with tiramisu and sparklers ( Read more... )