archives for September 2008

l’histoire des pneus qui volent

Monday 29 September 2008 | 5 cookies in the jar

Oleoptene: It all feels so out-and-out manipulative. I am much healthier not watching politics.
Unnarrator: Truly, you are right—it’s the sleight of hand to distract us from, I don’t know, things like WAR and the end of the world.
Oleo: But I’m delighted to watch Sarah wring another fifteen minutes out of this.
Un: Grateful as ever for […]

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comp dept. administration: don’t try this at home

Monday 29 September 2008 | someone left a cookie

Dear composition instructors,
It seems that online courses is becoming increasingly popular [sic] as more people become qualified teach them [sic]. Although the number of online courses has also risen, the demand for online courses is becoming larger than the supply. After discussing this issue with various people [?], it became clear that the only way […]

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monday mailcall, with purple stripes

Monday 29 September 2008 | someone left a cookie


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the faceting machine

Friday 26 September 2008 | someone left a cookie

Modern science has subtilized its projections to an almost unrecognizable degree, but our ordinary life still swarms with them. You can find them spread out in the newspapers, in books, rumours, and ordinary social gossip. All gaps in our actual knowledge are still filled out with projections. We are still so sure we know what […]

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note to self

Friday 26 September 2008 | 6 cookies in the jar

Do not compulsively check the Brujo’s lifespan on deathclock.com. (Although Mandarin’s supposed to live to be 97; and I gain or lose 20 years, depending on whether I bill myself as Pessimistic or merely Normal.)

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conspiracy theory du jour

Thursday 25 September 2008 | 3 cookies in the jar

Katie Couric: You’ve cited Alaska’s proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?
Sarah Palin: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and, on our other side, the land-boundary that we have with Canada. It’s funny that a comment like that was […]

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only slightly distracted by the fact that jonatha looks like cj cregg

Wednesday 24 September 2008 | I like a cookie


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hoggify, part II

Wednesday 24 September 2008 | I like a cookie

So, when Barack Obama says he will put some lipstick on my pig, I am, like, Are you calling me a pig? If so, thanks! Pigs are the most non-Élite of all barnyard animals. And also, if you put lipstick on my pig, do you know what the difference will be between that pig and […]

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why can’t this be real?

Tuesday 23 September 2008 | someone left a cookie

OBAMA The problem is we can’t appear angry. Bush called us the angry left. Did you see anyone in Denver who was angry?
BARTLET Well…let me think…. We went to war against the wrong country, Osama bin Laden just celebrated his seventh anniversary of not being caught either dead or alive, my family’s less safe than […]

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genuinely, frighteningly unable to think of clever hed

Thursday 18 September 2008 | 5 cookies in the jar

Because I just taught, and next have a meeting and a three-hour class, and then I go straight home and the Brujo and I immediately hit the road for…Santa Fe, and the annual creative music festival, and our 45-minute-long ”improvised opera” (el Brujo having “composed” said opera and contributing conduction/percussion, and the rest of us, five in […]

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