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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
10:04 pm	bone to pick I've got something to say. I'd like to point something out. The phrase 'politically incorrect' means: discourse or text not restricted by political considerations. This does not mean anything. It's a little like saying 'uncensored', but with content that has never been censored by anybody. Very stupid. Someday I will be a very old, old man, and I will rail against things I probably won't understand. If I'm lucky I'll write poetry then. ps i like bernie mac (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
7:48 pm	"You may not have rhythm, but your brain does." - The tagline of an article about brain waves in scientific american, a magazine for science people. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
11:02 pm	I was put off tonight when Romina, the organizer of the class I'm promoting, failed to come to my tabling in emerson hall tonight. She was late to a meeting before and that's just no good. I won't have to help these people after this week I think. Meaning: I won't have to ask asshole swesties if they've got all of their classes set for this semester. Reason: I don't care. I love playing basketball. Current Music: archers of loaf (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 30th, 2006
9:46 am	you gotta keep me up alllll night, computer I wrote a while on my feelings about my family, the conflict between my mother and sister and the relationship between me and my father, then clicked on one of the links on the posting page. Then I clicked back to find it erased. Hate when that happpens. Hey, spares you some time, right? I'm going to be in lincoln for new year's- then back up in sundy's. I am totally willing to hang out with annybody when I get back. So if you thought you normally could never have even a chance to be out in public with me - because I am too busy playing professional basketball and riding horses around my equine cancer research lab - think again for a day. come work with me at the 'everstar' dunkaholics regional space cancer equine research camp and hooptronics laboratory body wash soap room, i mean that. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 16th, 2006
12:46 pm	griller Work continues to be a life and death fight for me. It's morning and I haven't slept, spending so much time last night watching very interesting things but doing LITTLE writing. However, I am almost done with the first paper I've told myself to do. So, after a week, I've finally begun... i'm really writing this now only as affirmation. School sucks. Probably half of my posts ever are about the difficulties of doing work. Not that these papers are hard; they're not. People take routine for granted. I'll probably live longer if I get boring. I love how when the sun comes up you get that extra burst of energy. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 4th, 2006
6:42 pm	Brutal and violent tragedy Can't believe I hit a doe. She wasn't killed but my windshield was. I'm ok. Glass flew everywhere on the passenger side of my car. Thank god caroline wasn't in the car - or the glass shattered on the driver side - or we could have lost eyes, or needed surgery. The lighter side of the accident was the cop and tower arriving finding me in my robe with a starbucks cup standing next to my brutal and violent tragedy. That was the best birthday present of all. No just kidding, it was the food and dylan concert coming soon. Current Music: unicorns (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 13th, 2006
4:33 am	I just saw Calvin Johnson. I liked what he had to say, things about music and community. Had more burning questions than I could ask. His canyon-deep baritone enthralls me. And his hands wave in snaky ways. It strikes me he is weirder than I am. It was a good night otherwise - though not because I overheard at least 3 different hampshire kid conversations on the subject of 2 friends just fucking for the sake of fucking. Their words, and odd. It has been a complicated day for me. Current Music: will oldham (Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
5:15 pm	stupid people There's a boingboing entry that makes me say, 'that's ridiculous'. You know the senator that sent emails of sex to his 16 year old campaign helper boy? The senator's a republican. The story was on the o'reilly factor yesterday and a video of Foley, the senator, speaking to reporters and the blurb at the bottom of the screen listed him as a democrat, 3 times. In two different segments of the program. It seems like this is the week of stupid people. Also, a Houston man, Alton Vern (nice name) complained last week about his daughter having to read Fahrenheit 451 because it had "dirty language" in it, and asked for it to be taken out of the curriculum. If you haven't read Fahrenheit 451 the irony is that it is about a terrible future in which books are burned by teams of state-sponsored future-firemen. And last week was the national library association's banned book week. Anyway, I'm really just paraphrasing what's on boingboing.net. Just read that. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
11:07 pm	that's this place here Tinymixtapes: Did You Hear That Willie Nelson Got Hit By Car? He Was Playing "On the Road Again." LOL. No, But Seriously, He Got Arrested For Possession. I like the internet. It has many uses. I just put up pics of alaska and I don't think I've ever been so satisfied with web sites with people's faces on them as I am now that I have pictures from a place to write home about... I feel good, and oreos can only help. I also wonder about faces: how far can one face range in its attractiveness? Can I or anyone else be intensely nice-looking on a certain day and on the next, unremarkable? If so it might be that our faces are squishy. Feel your face. It is so not solid. Is it hormonal? Does it matter? I like what makes people attractive. This is what I'd like to know right now. There are perhaps more important questions I could be asking. Tonight, that is what I say, though. Current Music: smiths girl afraid (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, September 22nd, 2006
11:16 am	We are awaiting the inevitable return of the banana bread savior. - My sole thought upon waking. Also someone next door began singing Hey Mr. Tambourine Man as I opened my eyes, and I joined in. He didn't seem to notice, though I was very loud. (Comment on this)
Friday, September 8th, 2006
1:19 am	I feel like an amorous tour guide to the world. I may have stolen the phrase from ryan north but i like it. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, August 28th, 2006
3:16 am	Update: trying to dry my own cupboard salami. resolving to cook for myself good meals using olive oil. working towards a frame of mind wherein writing is possible again. praying to switch jobs as soon as possible, despite the people i like in the office. making a decision about taking chemistry again this fall. realizing i am an adult. processing my experiences in the great alyeska. reevaluating my sort of unstated philosophy of pragmatism. i've noticed i'll miss what is in the dark cracks sometimes. the gerund can sound peurile when used sequentially. the josh can sound snobby when he reads his thoughts back to himself. hey, what are you gonna do, i'm still gonna think it. wake up tomorrow with a full dozen (12!) options for cereal. There's a word for it, i think the southern justese say, "babeh-babeh, U'h." Current Music: dylan's tricks (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
11:23 pm	I ate cereal for breakfast, lunch and dinner, today. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 9th, 2006
12:28 am	I just trashed Guster on the air. It's not my proudest day but I've just never been more bored. Feel like a need a direction. Intellectually, stylistically, I feel unfulfilled. Justus sitting over there may know what I mean- we're on the radio, and I really want to like a career option that I have in front of me. It's funny, I'm the most distractable guy I know (though my friends often get up there) but I can't get myself to notice things sometimes. I was talking with my sister, and she is working at a camp this summer and I told that I'm so old, I have no reason to ever go back there again. Wouldn't want to be a counselor there. It's like that mogwai song, punk rock, except I am no johnny rotten. But nobody who reads this knows mogwai too well. whoa, that's enough of this trashy soap. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
12:53 pm	Score, I've concocted another critical analysis. This leaves only 14 pages left of the armada of unfinished papers I've come to refer to collectively as "Stonewall Jackson". (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 21st, 2006
11:50 pm	I made a link I think. alright clearly no i didn't. but here, why not... tell me how to do a link, h your instructions must have been missing something. I guess I was reading a lot of bukowski, and thinking about the appeal of the unappealing, that it takes a lot of content to turn that around. Hope you like it. ( scene ) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 20th, 2006
1:42 pm	Viv's parents - when they laughed, the skin on their faces shone like wax in candlelight. Molded, but ready to melt. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, May 19th, 2006
7:16 pm	library mania I'm finishing an old Dean's Book assignment I never got a chance to do. And I decided to make it into a screenplay scene for my other class too. I'd post it but I don't know how to make one of those link things and I don't want to take pages of precious precious lj space from all you kids. Suffice it to say that it details the adventures of Charles Bukowski and David Shipley when they meet on a milk-sodden sidestreet of LA. If you wanted to read about Shipley being beat up, teach me how to post those link things, and then you can read it. I'll give a taste: "Bukowski rises quickly and with a smooth motion smears the lime green glob of gook across Shipley’s... nose, and mouth" Its brelyans. And now to hand it in to both professors. Current Mood: 'crunch' Current Music: m&ms (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 15th, 2006
1:19 pm	oblong sponsibilities the devil wants his due, and the devil is school. I'm gonna write this down more for my own benefit than for anyone else. What I've got left to do: 5-page analysis of one american portraits movie 1 dramatic scene for the same class 2 page make-up of a forgotten dean's book assignment 5 page paper on purdy 5 page paper on hemingway 5 page paper on anderson 2 page make-up assignment for men/women, half done 10 page final paper for men/women, 1 page completed 2 page summary of this semester's tractates for talmud 2 page summary of last semester's tractates for talmud Everything is due now or is past due. So, I've got my work cut out for me. Today is the 15th, and everything is due without question by end of finals, which end on the 23rd I think. The men/women papers are due before thursday. Sure feels good to have this all out in front of me. The collegian called back and want me to come in for a second interview. I only hope I'd take care of my responsibilities better as an editor of our newspaper than I have as an english student. Jon wrote me and I'll write him back today. The part that really tenses my shoulders is that this semester was supposed to be my easy semester; I've taken 12 credits. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 1st, 2006
1:30 am	the subject of luff let's feel good today. lately it's all i can do to control silly, luffy things coming out of my brain. p.s. caroline is full of luff. (2 Comments |Comment on this)