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Lies? On the Internet?
The main page at Ok Cupid lists "Recently Joined!" users, with the date in parentheses right behind it. This would lead you to believe that, as of today, the thumbnails below are of people who joined, y'know, recently ( Read more... ) -
The Crimson and the Blue.
Most people know I'm not into college basketball. While it's about ten times more engaging to watch than the sack of bastards that is the NBA, I don't have the energy to have an opinion about sixty-four different teams.
"What do you think about Gonzaga?"
"Theirs is a funny name."
However, there is a point at which I'm not going to fight my school ( Read more... ) -
The Other "The Tudors."
If you're considering going to see "The Other Boleyn Girl," quit while you're ahead ( Read more... ) -
A seventeen-minute break.
Sometimes words lose potency over time; it's inevitable in any living language. Excruciating came to be because it was felt that no existing word was sufficient to describe the effects of crucifixion. Starving once only applied to someone dying of malnutrition. You get the idea. It's not arresting anymore to use the word insane. I wish ( Read more... ) -
Science!
A friend and I are exchanging books, the better to expand one another's horizons. In exchange for Snow Crash, I get to read A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, and I can't say enough good things about it. Bryson knows exactly how to combine basic concepts of how the world works with historical context; he spends as much time on ( Read more... ) -
Twenty Love Songs, Vol. 0
This one goes out to anyone who wants to claim it. I seriously opened iTunes, filtered for the word “love” and pulled out the songs that I liked the best. If the overall tone seems to lean one way or another, this is because of my taste in music. Happy today, everyone.
01 Nouvelle Vague Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division) ( Read more... ) -
Everyone gets famous.
Danny, who likes to climb geography for fun, once made an arrangement with some of his fellow climbers concerning their official last words. Should one of them make a fatal error halfway up a rockface, odds are his last words would either not be worth committing to paper (should he, understandably, not have the presence of mind to say any) or not ( Read more... ) -
Wearing the donkey mask, feeling the flow.
This evening Sterling, Danny, Cimmy, and I did our duty, registered as Democrats, and caucused for Barack Obama. We went to the fairgrounds, crowded into what amounted to an enormous metallic barn with electricity and bathrooms, and started shouting loud enough to drown out the smell of cattle. Despite our best efforts, Clinton got more than the ( Read more... ) -
Godspeed, sir.
Ten years after the rest of his family got out of their braces (Mom, Erin, and I got a package deal in 1996), Dad went to the orthodontist. He wore braces in high school, but his wisdom teeth helped push the rest back out of kilter and the following decades didn't help. It's never been a serious matter, but he finally decided he wanted straight ( Read more... )