April 2010
33 posts
Miles to go.
College has the fine quality of constantly reminding me how bad I am at time-management, and also of how fortunate I am to be allowed to work within academia. For all its faults, I’d be fucked elsewhere.
I understand the absolute irony of posting this on... →
I am...
in San Francisco
However, today is very important to me.
Today in 1865, American/personal hero Abraham Lincoln, was shot by the coward John Wilkes Booth.
Fuck secessionists and fuck Jefferson Davis because he was a traitor and a sinner.
Long Live The Union.
More pertinently, the beautiful, humane, human Hanne Sharkey was born today.
She sends me.
It is also my sister’s birthday....
More Bitching About The iPad.
I posit a hypothetical scenario for your consideration. You do a fair amount of “handywork” these days, and you have a reliable, basic set of full-size tools at home you use for this.
You have $100 of entirely disposable income on hand.
A reputable man walks up to you and offers you a very conveniently-sized swiss army knife with a multitude of high-quality tools (approximately 64...
"elucidation" or "All Apologies"
Kurt Cobain was not a saint.
He was not the voice of an entire generation,
though he is the voice of every teenager who hurts.
He was a fucked-up kid from the west coast who stopped giving a shit and went for it, loud and furious.
He left a wife of ill-repute and an infant daughter in death.
he was my first hero; he still is.
A sound guide. →
you know he’s never coming back, right?
“Fuck it. Fuck it if they call you hipster. Fuck them all. Fuck if everybody...”
Women are worse at commitment than men. Commitment, not committing. Women are gangbusters at committing. Everything that follows…
relativism
If hippies were rich I think they’d dig on guns. I would if I had money.
the labyrinth
I have to finish House of Leaves whilst helping the urban poor of San Francisco next week. I must then return to school with all manner of high-minded opinions about deconstructionism, postmodernism, literary fiction, etc. regardless of whether or not I mean them (I mean most of them, but analytics are still a pain in the ass), and feed these into the intellectual machine.
Meanwhile, I will...
