I think I have officially LJ'd out ( Read more... )

I rarely post quizzes anymore, but this one clearly had to be done:

abolishapathy --

[adjective]:

Full of bees

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

How is it that Greg gets a lovely phrase like "benevolent to a fault" and I get this? I mean, it's completely & utterly true, but still...

Clearly, this deserves to go on my Christmas list. I was randomly Googling for a more serious gift for someone when I stumbled upon The Avenging Unicorn Play Set. As the item description states, "Let's repeat that, a MIME. YOU GET TO IMPALE A MIME!!!"

i.e., compulsive posting to the worst degree...Eventually, it will taper. But, at the moment, I wish to share this, which will quite possibly be posted on my fridge as the new meaning of my life:

The New Gallimard Translation of My 250-Word French Essay, Sophomore Year.BY JEFF BARNOSKY ( Read more... )

**Mainly friends only now.**

Ask to be my friend, and you can read all the truly confessionalistic angsty bits. After that, you will probably request to be pardoned from the friendship. However, if you're an adventurous soul, venture on... :P

( ha! i KNEW it! (spoiler of sorts for HP and the HBP) )

[my selection of my personal favorites from ( Read more... )

I heart Dave Eggers.

For everything about McSweeney's ever-fabulous magazine, and for passages like this excerpt out of You Shall Know Our Velocity!:

Passing a middle-aged couple in matching jackets ( Read more... )

Sadly, most of my favored favorites are in collections in storage with my mustier-by-the-moment life. Plus they seem to not exist on the web, as far as Google has thus directed me. But, for the moment (and as you were one of the few who answered the call for requests), I hope these few I've managed to rustle up provide some Harvard-relevant ( Read more... )

This one's for you, Greg: a little brilliance of the architectural variety. Should you ever yen to attempt an architectural project of this variety, totally let me know, because I want to be there to help. :)

A Church Made Entirely of Legos(To get an idea of the scale, take a look at the pictures of the builder's cats roaming the inside of the ( Read more... )