I've been reading a lot of food blogs and decided to start my own. I decided to use blogger instead of LJ to have a fresh start (as i'm sure you know, i've been really bad at updating my lj). You can check out my food blog at www.brianacooks.blogspot.com

“Damn it, the French, they’re just egging the Israelis on  - hoping somehow to get out of their own North African troubles. Damn it … we tired to tell them they would repeat Indochina all over again in North Africa. They said, “Oh no! Algeria’s part of metropolitan France!” - and all that damn nonsense”

-         President Eisenhower on the French
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As most of you know, I am a horrible speller / proof reader / typist. This video is really funny.

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I was thinking of submitting this to the school journal, but wanted to test out people's reactions to it here first. What do you think?

( Click here to hear about women flashing their breasts - you know you want to )

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I'm gathering these for my thesis presentation. Didn't want to loose them, so I thought I'd put them here.

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We watched this today in my political theory class. I really like it.

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Just thought I'd let the lj world know I'm not dead. In fact, I'm back at Scripps. So far the semester is going well. I have been reading a lot. I'm starting to get a bit antsy as being back becomes less exciting and the work is piling on, but hopefully that will go away soon.

I wrote some stuff about battlestar for my international relations class. Its a little long, but I thought I'd post it here behind a cut just for fun. (fyi: the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs contain plot summeries)

( Conservative foundation, but seeing the Cylons as the U.S. turns the show into potent a social comentary? )

“Like a hardy strain of the avian flu, the random search of passenger bags has spread to New York City’s subway system, and the group that will be the most unconvinced is women. A man might carry a bag for his workout cloths, his schoolbooks, or his laptop, but businessmen carrying only their wallets and keys in pockets can ride the subway secure ( Read more... )