From the way I hear it, we're supposed to have a brilliant teacher/professor in college who one way or another becomes our mentor. It may be a formal thing but often it isn't. This person just happens to be someone who strings all the right words and motions in just the right order to make your brain light up in all the right ways and... I dunno ( Read more... )

Technically, Who Killed Amanda Palmer came out in 2008 and I found it then - saw her in October with adularia, picked up the album in January and talked Dresden Dolls with my Morningside Heights roommate ( Read more... )

That was fun. I just went back through several days of recent posts to find comments that LJ hadn't notified me about, either in the messages here on LJ or via email. It's a little like finding treasure in my room. All the love I didn't know I had. Aww ( Read more... )

Thank goodness I can type with a huge lump in my throat.

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Wish this guy would come over an talk to my dad. All my best to Maine. No on Question 1!
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So there, classmates who used to spit on me for starting my homework on the bus home!

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Or as was noted in Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns - fans of things nerdy grew up, gained power and inflicted their (our) loves on the rest of the world.

Still not much to say to people who used to and continue to call me weird. But I'll figure it out.

Um... Gay Talese, I think I'm in love with you.

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Unrelated: Sen Burris GAAAHHHHH *headesk*headesk*

And just because: Are you feeling stimulated yet?

Myron Rolle may be my new favorite person.

Maybe if I apply myself I might find I'm a tenth as talented. Learned of him thanks to Rachel Maddow and I wish I could find a video of it to show because she aptly expresses how dramatic and AWESOME the story is. The NY Times blog only covers a few of his accomplishments.
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Ricardo Montalban has died

AWWww. }:< I grew up watching Fantasy Island. My mom had an unabashed crush on him. She even tolerated a few minutes of Wrath of Khan to watch him run around without a shirt on ( Read more... )