32 years ago yesterday, the NVA crashed a tank through the gate of the South Vietnamese Presidental Palace. The communist honchos leading the offensive only reluctantly allowed General Duong Van "Big" Minh to officially surrender, claiming that he had nothing left to give up. The proud people of North Vietnam had vanquished the last of a series of ( Read more... )

Witness the great outdoors.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=quLxN3DSqcc

Last week I was crossing the street on Fordham Road and I see this Escalade, huge and cream colored, with a couple of guidette Jersey girls inside. They're all did up in their Dolce+Gabbana shirts and nasty permed hair, with fake tans to boot. Across the top of their windshield, in big Old English stickers, they've got "FEAR GOD!" written. Okay, I ( Read more... )

Crikey. RIP the Crocodile Hunter. I'm gonna have to pour a sip on the concrete for him.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20349888-2,00.html

So today a bunch of kids from the Allendale Recreation Center (roughly Macarthur and 35th) showed up at the boathouse to take some pedalboats and kayaks out on the lake. The kids were maybe six to ten years old, and their counselors weren't the most capable human beings I've ever met, so the kids were generally a hassle; it took me a good twenty or ( Read more... )

Today was so singularly shitty that I feel the need to say something despite being too tired and fed up to go over everything. I'll just point out that the acrid smell of my own burnt hair has been stuck in my nostrils for the past 5-6 hours and it's giving me a headache. Last final is on Monday, after that I'm getting the fuck out of here.

Apparently the 2005 winner of the "Miss Deaf Texas" competition was hit by a train when she was walking along the tracks and completely failed to hear the horn: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/15/miss.deaf.texas/index.htmlRead more... )

Tonight was a good night. Was it the alcohol? The clonazepam? The people? The music? The stuff I stole from Columbia? All of the above? Wish I knew.

So as I was getting into bed Sunday night, I noticed that one of my blankets was missing. After scouring the room, it quickly became apparent that the blanket was no longer here in 107; indeed, it must have left the room sometime after about 2 PM, when I woke up. At this point I can't say I really have any idea what happened to it ( Read more... )

I just got owned in three-card monte. I was sure I had won, but there was some sleight of hand that I failed to catch, some skulduggery afoot that would soon rob whitey of his $20. It kinda sucks that I'm out $20, but whatever, it was a fun time. I'll make up for it by buying less weed ( Read more... )