http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/11/16/uc-berkeley-shooting-suspect-identified-as-a-student-has-died/

While it has been an academically and personally stagnant period (other than slapping on 80 tons of red lipstick and a floofy red dress for halloween to be a tragic Carmen), there has been a hell of a lot of political insanity raging around me.

First of all: Kirchner, wtf. My humanistic tendencies lead me to be softened by this and this, but that ( Read more... )

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For no particular reason, in no particular order, and following a very narrow but undefined set of parameters ( Read more... )

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1578

*ps. I can NEVER get over the random log cabin and car the dinosaur is always about to step on in the third panel.

Τὸν γὰρ τοιοῦτον ἄνθρωπον οὐδεὶς τῶν περιοικούντων οὐπώποτ’ εἶδεν ... ὄνομα δ’ ἦν αὐτῷ Ἄλβος Διμπλόδωρος.

http://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Philosophers-Stone-Ancient/dp/158234826X

undergrad 1: what are you going to be for halloween?
undergrad 2: che guevara.
undergrad 1: huh?
undergrad 2: che guevara.
undergrad 1: what's that?
undergrad 2: a revolutionary. in cuba. and also the ENTIRE WORLD.
undergrad 1: oh wow!!!! that sure beats dressing up as a pizza!

I don't even know where to start.

PBS's Masterpiece Classics is showing the complete Jane Austen every Sunday at 9 for the forseeable future. Tonight is Northanger Abbey, which I've never seen rendered onto TV or film. It's the crudest, most overtly farcical, and lightest out of the entire featherlight bunch, but I am equipped with a bottle of French white and a fire in our ( Read more... )

today is not pretty. there is a lot of lying very still in the dark in my immediate future.

the pain.

4:00 am: stumble to the bathroom and swallow 800 mg of ibuprofen ( Read more... )