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Tom Robbins and stupid people
Oh LiveJournal, how I have missed your public forum of my thoughts that I mainly read to myself. I sometimes feel pretty ridiculous doing this, but at the same time, it's clear that one must exercise their writing muscles from time to time. Unfortunately, I have wasted that writing on moderately long essays about videogames and random ( Read more... ) -
Traumstadt
The picture I have posted as my profile picture is an image of Paul Klee's "Traumstadt", translated as "City of Dreams". I don't know what draws me so much to the painting. When I was in Germany, going to all these art museums that were filled with some amazing works, including the presentation of the MOMA collection that was in Berlin during the ( Read more... ) -
Mass Effect
So I spent a good portion of last week replaying the first Mass Effect game. While the story is not anything terribly new (yet another story of a hero/heroine and his/her companions setting out to save the universe from something that is evil). The execution was something that until that point had only been hinted at by other games, particularly ( Read more... ) -
Various Quotes from "Gravity's Rainbow" (with a little discussion)
About midway through my reading of "Gravity's Rainbow", I decided to start marking pages where I read something that I felt was a little quotable nugget of knowledge, so my apologies to anyone who is a "Gravity's Rainbow" fanatic who stumbles across this entry and realizes that all these quotes come from the last half of the book. I did include ( Read more... ) -
Boundary Fascination
I've been thinking a lot about humanity's obsession with boundaries. We seem to always want to delineate things in our world. This has been even more prevalent in my mind as of late with the (admittedly snail's paced) reading of "Gravity's Rainbow" and beginning to take biology, probably the king of sciences dealing with classifications, ( Read more... ) -
Hello
Hi Livejournal, did you miss me? Aww, I missed you, too. Life has been one hectic thing after another as of late. I have an exam tomorrow and then two more exams next week, then it's rest for about a month. Well, sort of. I will still be working and there are all the holiday things to attend. It's not going to be totally restful, but let's ( Read more... ) -
Missionary, not the position.
Man, so I'm sitting, minding my own business, eating a bagel, when I find myself forced to overhear a conversation by two girls sitting nearby. Now before you say that I had a choice to not listen, let me point out that they were talking quite loudly and I didn't have my earphones with me at the time. If I had, I would have considered blaring ( Read more... ) -
Movies out of boredom
I should have brought my book with me because I've been sitting here for the past half hour or so bored out of my mind. About the only exciting thing I learned that I didn't know (mostly because I must not have been paying any attention, or have been so preoccupied by other things) is that Guy Ritchie directed the new Sherlock Holmes movie. ( Read more... ) -
Oops!
I forgot to discuss the "lack of zombies" part of my post title the other week. In Call of Duty: World at War, there was a mode called Nazi Zombies, essentially a horde mode for four players, meaning that it was four players working together against a horde of Nazi zombies (or, in later add-ons, Japanese zombies which were not as cool as Nazi ( Read more... ) -
Of Dragons, Guns, and a lack of Zombies...
In an attempt to forget the poor performance I showed yesterday on my chemistry exam (this is seriously the worst I have done on classes in my entire college career, call it burnout, call it what you will, I don't know), yesterday afternoon was spent playing some games. Like millions of other people this week, I picked up a copy of Modern Warfare ( Read more... )