List five songs that you are currently digging ... it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words or even if they're any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artist and the song in your blog along with your five songs. Then tag five other people to see what they're listening ( Read more... )

A great deal of press time has been devoted to making appear heroic the long suffering of Terri Schiavo's parents. While I would not wish to belittle their emotional reality, I cannot help but think that the wish for their daughter to "live" is nothing more glamorous than necrophilia--albeit a culturally-sanctioned form ( Read more... )

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OK, I don't usually do these. In fact, I never have. But I thought this one was too awesome to pass up.

Idea "borrowed" from thuribrandybuck (with changes because I am an Obsessive-Compulsive Cunty Grammar Nazi, or OCCGN if you prefer):

Invent a memory of me and post it in the comments. It can be anything you want, so long as it's something that never ( Read more... )

OK, so I'm not exactly hung-over. But I woke up in the middle of the night having a migraine that made me want to die a little. And when I woke up this morning, I still felt pretty weird. So I decided I could allow myself a slow morning to make sure that the Headache is not going to come back ( Read more... )

You'll be given love
You'll be taken care of
You'll be given love
You'll have to trust it

Maybe not from the sources
you have poured yours into
Maybe not from the directions
you are staring at
Trust your head around
It's all around you

All is full of love
all around you.

--Bjork, "all is full of love," Homogenic

Most of my day was spent working. I had two papers to write today. I started at 9 and finished around 4, so basically a full day's work.

Then I decided I needed some serious veg-out time, so I watched Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses. It was basically the most perverse thing I've ever seen--but I kind of liked it. Basically, it's a response ( Read more... )

I had a dream last night that St. Mary Aldermanbury was actually a rare kind of giant Church Crustacean, and that it had moved from London to Fulton by simply scuttling along the bottom of the ocean. The dream had Jacques Cousteauesque narration in the background ( Read more... )

So.... I don't know how many of you are in academia, but if you are, you'll understand ( Read more... )

Tonight is so odd. I guess it has something to do with the cloud-cover or the mist. But it doesn't look like the sun really set. In the north, there's this burst of light that looks like a sunset. Maybe it's Wilmington. And all of the fruit trees look like they have hundreds of motes of light inside of them ( Read more... )