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Dear RPers of the world. Please learn how names work. Just because you know how American names work, and how Japanese names work... does not mean you now know how all the names in the world work! Please pleeeeeeeease do a little research before you attempt to create an ethnic character.

It's quite lovely. I know you will agree. This one is The Marriage of Figaro. (Mozart)

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Even more lovely. I think I love everything by Rossini EVER. Around 2:49... exquisite. Listening to his overtures is like listening to a conversation between instruments. He always has sections where the sections seem to "answer" each other. I love the way he ( Read more... )

Kat and I had a lovely time tonight. We went to the Bryant Park Summer Film Festival. This is what it looks like:

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And this is what it looks like from above:

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I brought a sheet and I must say, Kat was very quick behind me. We claimed our space in two seconds flat. (The videos will show that I am not exaggerating.) It was quite lovely.

This online class has been the most godawful school experience I've ever had. This professor leaves us messages on the Anouncement section of the program for the class as if she's absolutely justified in being a holier-than-thou BITCH when in fact she's been absent from the class for a MONTH ( Read more... )

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Today starts my birthday weekend celebration!

You already know.

When I visit you and the moon
Isn't around to show me the way,
Comets of longing set my heart
So much ablaze, the earth is lit
By the holocaust under my ribs.

Untitled by Abbas Ibn Al-Ahnaf

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So I'm not going to promise poems every day. But at least one today.

Well... maybe not a traditional poem. But definitely written as poetry.

See if you can recognize this one.

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