Tuesday, the 21st, I and a friend got to see Trahisons at the Comedie Française, in their theater on Rue du Vieux-Colombier. I have a vague memory of that place, or that street name, and an association with Tartuffe from seven years ago, and perhaps that's why, when I showed up a bit early and indulged in some tea and cheesecake, it didn't quite ( Read more... )

If 2008 ended on a bit of a downbeat, then this year has most assuredly been the intermission between acts ( Read more... )

I graduate in less than 24 hours.....wtf.

So I'm on Myrtle Beach right now, with a chilled Rum & Coke at my elbow and a balcony awaiting me. Life is good.

P.S. As such, I will be out of touch for a little bit. I did bring work with me, but it's more a cosmetic gesture than anything else. I'll be back in a week or so.

Rules for the Transformers Drinking Game:

Drink anytime there is...

an explicitly racist exchange

Megan Fox being ( ridiculuously )

So, yesterday, I went to East Rock for the first time and was kinda blown away. This was assisted by the fact that a friend visiting from out of town had taken me there on the back of his motorcycle ( Read more... )

So it was at 10.47 AM on the 27th morning of the 4th month in the year 2009, they lowered their arms and the carnage had ceased ( Read more... )

I'd heard talk about the Susan Boyle phenomenon and I guess my take on it, in addition to what everyone else has already said about it, is that in today's age with all these internet memes going around and whipping through the web like wildfire, it's nice to have one come along that is an unabashed and selfless celebration of someone. It wasn't ( Read more... )

More Balkan Round-Up:

Yay for regional cooperation. Though that same picture has been used for every story regarding the arrest of members of transnational criminal organizations in the last, I'd say, six months.

And is Kosovo destabilizing itself?Town-Gown Relations, Episode 6 ( Read more... )

Town-Gown relations Episode 5:

It just occurred to me that Yale University's Week of Service is scheduled during the same week as the annual local gang initiation.

Sweet timing.

::facepalm::