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Well Known Writers Who Drank Heavily
Samuel Johnson
John Donne
Lord Byron
Oscar Wilde
Eugene O'Neill
Kingsley Amis
Dylan Thomas
Winston Churchill
Malcolm Lowry
Evelyn Waugh
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dorothy Parker
Raymond Carver
Truman Capote
Jack London
William Faulkner
Herman Melville

Soo, as always, my summer reading plans have gone somewhat awry. While I haven't finished any of the books I meant to read this summer (I forgot to bring them back with me from Davis -_-;;), I HAVE read a bunch of really informative books, including: Standing Up to the Madness, by Amy Goodman and How to Get Into the Top Law Schools, by Richard ( Read more... )

This is something I wanted to comment on yesterday but I forgot, but I was reading The God Delusion two or so nights ago and I got REALLY EXCITED because Dawkins brought up Anselm's ontological argument and why it was circular and illogical. The reason why I was so excited is because that argument was the first one we covered in Philosophy 1 last, ( Read more... )

My weekend, I think, should begin with Friday, and its wonderful basketful of fun news.

( Friday: Acing French Tests, Watching Plays, and Beerpong )

Soo...I retook the permit test yesterday & drove up and down my street with my dad for half an hour today. It was EXHILARATING. I'm so looking forward to learning how to drive. Dan Christine & Ramneek better be ready to live up to their promise of helping me ( Read more... )

I started reading Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood, but it's sadly less gripping/interesting than I expected it to be, so it's slow going. I feel as if I'd never finish it if I let my attention wander to something else, though, so stick with it I must ( Read more... )

Home is quiet: frustrating and almost hostile at the worst, and awkwardly cheery at the best. There's a tendency to gravitate away from each other and bury ourselves in our own little worlds--my mother, watching chinese soaps on the television, my sister, drawing and playing games at her desk, and me at my computer, trying to pretend like I'm still ( Read more... )

Oh, The Format is such major bittersweet ♥ for me.

Annyyyways, I finished Love Walked In (BEAUTIFULLY written...was in minor danger of drawing my disgust for a moment there, but ended up being a GREAT book. I love its allusions to old/black and white movies: think Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, Bette Davis), The End of Faith (GREEEAATTT book; Harris is ( Read more... )

Haha one of the attys at SBLLP makes me giggle. I ♥ that he's over 35 years old and yet still has the happy-go-lucky smile and heart of a little kid. He still says "Hey dude!" when answering the phone, and does karate kicks into the air in his suit, and charms the clients with a mixture of professionalism and the demeanor that speaks of years of ( Read more... )