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I never post on livejournal, it's been months since I've been this compelled to do so. I have posted, what, three entries in the past 9 months? Whatever the case, I feel a need to communicate myself at the moment, and livejournal is just SO PERFECT a means of expression during certain moods.
I hate the use of the following words/terms/phrases. I hate them for widely varying reasons, clearly, but hate is nevertheless the only word to express how I feel.
1) blog
2) snark (or, alt., snarky)
3) comfy
4) marvelous
5) fascist dictatorship
6) sexual liberation
7) death tax
I just hate them so much I can't even explain myself (clearly).
I especially hate the word 'blog.' What is a blog except a personal website with reverse ordered chronological entries? Just say you have a website, or an often-updated website, or a dynamic personal website, web journal, online journal, or web log, or, quite literally, anything else, and I'll be so pleased with you I'll kiss your calves. I just cannot stand the word. And bloggers are not bloggers; we ought be accurate, bloggers are writers, if perhaps most often specifically amateur writers.
I wish Democrats would engage in a serious campaign of spin to promote the use of the label, 'Paris Hilton Tax,' to refer to the inheritance tax, because I think the popularization of the term 'Death Tax' is beyond contemptible.
If anyone gets a chance, and is okay with being a serious dork, read the elegies of Theognis. They are sublime, if 2730 years old.
Also, if you have access to JStor, and are at all interested in philosophy, download and read the 1958 article by G.E.M. Anscombe in 'Philosophy,' vol. 33, 'Modern Moral Philosophy.' Totally, totally brilliant.
I find dailyKos incredibly wrongheaded, and would even go so far as to say it's completely fucking up the future of America's progressive movement. That feeling is somewhat tempered, however, by my realization I'm incredibly grateful for Lieberman's defeat.
Is there anything more conservative, self-involved and incestuous than our generation's hipster culture? Any population less interested in venturing outside itself? Any group of people more preoccupied with the maintenance of uniformity, the isolation of others, the dogmatic acceptance of a political orthodoxy? Any group more devoted, to the exclusion of other facets of the human condition, to the pursuit of the base pleasures?
Steve Irwin was awesome, and he deserves to rest in peace. Oh man, how bizarre is his fate?
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By the way, since wesleyan people are the only people i know who use livejournal, it makes sense to tell y'all through this medium that i'll be up at wesleyan this upcoming weekend, my birthday weekend! totally exciting. I'd love to see y'all, so give me a call if you're around and willing to go out for some beers or something.
I hate the use of the following words/terms/phrases. I hate them for widely varying reasons, clearly, but hate is nevertheless the only word to express how I feel.
1) blog
2) snark (or, alt., snarky)
3) comfy
4) marvelous
5) fascist dictatorship
6) sexual liberation
7) death tax
I just hate them so much I can't even explain myself (clearly).
I especially hate the word 'blog.' What is a blog except a personal website with reverse ordered chronological entries? Just say you have a website, or an often-updated website, or a dynamic personal website, web journal, online journal, or web log, or, quite literally, anything else, and I'll be so pleased with you I'll kiss your calves. I just cannot stand the word. And bloggers are not bloggers; we ought be accurate, bloggers are writers, if perhaps most often specifically amateur writers.
I wish Democrats would engage in a serious campaign of spin to promote the use of the label, 'Paris Hilton Tax,' to refer to the inheritance tax, because I think the popularization of the term 'Death Tax' is beyond contemptible.
If anyone gets a chance, and is okay with being a serious dork, read the elegies of Theognis. They are sublime, if 2730 years old.
Also, if you have access to JStor, and are at all interested in philosophy, download and read the 1958 article by G.E.M. Anscombe in 'Philosophy,' vol. 33, 'Modern Moral Philosophy.' Totally, totally brilliant.
I find dailyKos incredibly wrongheaded, and would even go so far as to say it's completely fucking up the future of America's progressive movement. That feeling is somewhat tempered, however, by my realization I'm incredibly grateful for Lieberman's defeat.
Is there anything more conservative, self-involved and incestuous than our generation's hipster culture? Any population less interested in venturing outside itself? Any group of people more preoccupied with the maintenance of uniformity, the isolation of others, the dogmatic acceptance of a political orthodoxy? Any group more devoted, to the exclusion of other facets of the human condition, to the pursuit of the base pleasures?
Steve Irwin was awesome, and he deserves to rest in peace. Oh man, how bizarre is his fate?
edit -
By the way, since wesleyan people are the only people i know who use livejournal, it makes sense to tell y'all through this medium that i'll be up at wesleyan this upcoming weekend, my birthday weekend! totally exciting. I'd love to see y'all, so give me a call if you're around and willing to go out for some beers or something.