The premise for "Swing Vote " is so ridiculously, profoundly idiotic that I do not have enough superlatives in my arsenal to express my rage and disappointment.

- Ethan

One final thought before I hit the hay ( Read more... )

These are positively brilliant: several three-line short plays summarizing major literary works (courtesy McSweeney's Internet Tendency).

1984
WINSTON: Don't tell the Party, but sex is way better than totalitarianism.
EVERYONE: Surprise! We're the Party.
WINSTON: Oh, rats.

The Lion, the Witch, and the WardrobeC.S. LEWIS: Finally, a utopia ruled ( Read more... )

I dreamt that I could re-create ( Read more... )

I found these phrases written on a piece of paper in my room yesterday. I can't remember what they mean, or if they are connected. I don't think they are ( Read more... )

I am going to start a separate blog for my music ramblings (personal and political stuff will stay here in LiveJournal). I've made the page, and put in one entry (concerning my thoughts on sampling law), but it probably won't be updated regularly until the school year starts.

Still, if you are at all interested, it will be available here: http:// ( Read more... )

I want to re-engage my creativity.

I haven't really created anything substantial in a while, but I'm going to change that. For starters, I'm going to begin writing more regularly (both in this journal, and in a nice little moleskin diary I have not touched since I bought it 4+ months ago). I've also started writing (real) songs, which has been fun ( Read more... )

So, politics ( Read more... )

Why did we run so far away ( Read more... )

He would see faces in movies, on TV, in magazines and in books. He thought that some of these faces might be right for him ( Read more... )