Here's what I don't understand: Extraordinarily wealthy, salaried individuals with seemingly unconditional job security, fuck up really bad and get bailed out with billions of dollars. Meanwhile, millions of low-income to middle-class individuals (all of whom experience the typical "if you are not completely stellar at your job and simultaneously ( Read more... )

yet i have not been able to make sense of all this chaotic beauty around me nor could i repeat its hideous glory in any words understandable to the rest of the world, but I'll say this much ( Read more... )

i know that everyone always talks about how they are going to stop drinking (or maybe they don't, perhaps everyone else just keeps on drinking oblivious to the surrounding chaos with its increasing voracity ( Read more... )

i've made an amazing discovery! the party store down the street, unlike the VAST majority of corner/convenience/party/beer stores in the oly vicinity, carries 40oz bottles of Mickey's Malt Liquor. Thank heaven. However, no Colt45 is to be found, neither in deuce format, nor forty. Curses ( Read more... )

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hi-larious. and VERY true. for further, related reading, look to radar.com for their recent article on NPRents.

I am gravely disappointed in the quality of Microsoft Word's thesaurus. I realized that I totally overuse the word "increasingly", but the only solutions that Word offered were "ever more", "more and more", "gradually more", and "progressively more ( Read more... )

i am feeling the uncontrollable urge to skip the latter half of class, drink wine, and fall asleep in a house that is not mine. I do not want to go back to class, but I do not want to be here. and I do not have any place reasonable to go ( Read more... )

damn! I just looked at mlive.com after seeing a few cryptic facebook status thingies, and the former east-tunes building is leveled. that shit is blowing my mind ( Read more... )

this is the best valentine's day that I've had since I was 17 years old. and I get to go to a concert tonight, yay!

friday night, jason and I went to a party. we left around 3am, and went back to our house. on the way there, we encountered a mis-marked turn, laden with an oil slick, going about 30mph. the next thing I knew, we were careening over the cliff edge, down a ravine about 150 ft. The car flipped over half-way, and we landed upside down in a little ( Read more... )