Once, a few years back, C and I went to the Berkeley Art Museum to see an exhibit of Chinese landscape prints, but we got distracted by a small room of elephant paintings. Paintings by elephants - endangered Thai elephants - not of elephants. Some of the paintings looked like nothing more than random tempera streaks on paper, but after standing in ( Read more... )

This would be why I read Rob Brezsney... every so often, I feel like he's backed me into a corner and said 'think about this NOW.' And apparently, it works.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): "Anybody can become angry--that is easy," said Aristotle. "But to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right ( Read more... )

This pumpkin carving simulation is wicked awesome ( Read more... )

This flip-flop parody is awesome.

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In other news, Judy Miller, infamous New York Times reporter, was sentenced to jail time for refusing to provide information on her confidential sources. Regardless of what I happen to think of Judy Miller (not very highly, given her WMD series that seemed to legitimize the Iraq war), please go read the op-ed ( Read more... )

I used to get upset that nothing happened on the 21st of May. In fact, I once hung out with a dorm parent of mine (also a history teacher) for an entire afternoon trying to come up with an event for this date. We didn't find anything, despite the fact that the Civil War was coming to an end ( Read more... )

I don't think that I believed it could get any worse.

This is such a fabulous link. From McSweeney's:

D A I L Y    R E A S O N    T O    D I S P A T C H    B U S H .

Take a looksie...

This vocabulary test is definitely up there on the difficulty scale, although panegyric - the word that threw off my groove (beware the groooooove!*) on the GRE vocab and which I will never again forget - does not make an appearance. I was a little disappointed by that. I ended up with 168 out of 200, but I made a whole lot of wild and semi- ( Read more... )

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Edited because the New York Observer doesn't archive its articles! Ack ( Read more... )