archives for September 2008
worst. hic.cups. ev.er.
Tuesday 16 September 2008 | 6 cookies in the jar
So I just ditched school.
No, not because of the hiccups, but because I’ve had the usual awful menstrual period and have been abed all weekend, stoned on Tylenol and ibuprofen. And I was hoping I’d be better today, but I’m still shaky and pale and in pain.
Still, it’s awfully early in the semester to be […]
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stupid club = n+1
Monday 15 September 2008 | someone left a cookie
It’s impossible to resist the idea that the fictional Neal’s motivations in ending his life—he regards himself as utterly “calculating” and “fraudulent”—were Wallace’s own, but such conclusions would only have multiplied the author’s despair.
Wallace believed, I think, that one way out of Neal’s labyrinthine artificiality, out of his preoccupation with selling “a certain image” of […]
conversations with me
Thursday 11 September 2008 | 13 cookies in the jar
Me: Why are we awake? It’s 2:30 in the morning.
Me: Because the Brujo woke me when he got up to pee and walked into the bedroom door.
Me: And then I lay there and started a poem in my head about the opened sardine can that was left in the stairwell at school—the one with half-an-inch […]
obalma!
Wednesday 10 September 2008 | 2 cookies in the jar
clarification
Wednesday 10 September 2008 | someone left a cookie
Dear Presidential Campaigns*, Camp Followers, and Associated Punditry:
Strangely, many of you seem to be suffering from a public misunderstanding over what constitutes “sexism.” This is an unusually dated quandary, since every conservative knows that the problems of “sexism” in the US were completely resolved in 1920 and require no further redress. But for those who […]
keeping tabs
Wednesday 10 September 2008 | 3 cookies in the jar
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
let’s hope the strangelets eat fox news first
Monday 8 September 2008 | someone left a cookie
The Brujo [in radio-announcer voice]: “For centuries, scientists have sought unsuccessfully to unlock the secrets of the Big Bang Theory.” (Fear Looms Over Scientist’s Experiment to Uncover Secrets of ‘Big Bang‘)
Unnarrator: Um, no; for CENTURIES scientists have placed old dirty rags in jars and waited to see if they would turn into MICE.
The Brujo: And […]
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when danish speakers write in english
Monday 8 September 2008 | 5 cookies in the jar
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friday refrains · two cheers for democracy
Friday 5 September 2008 | 8 cookies in the jar
AMERICA
Then one of the students with blue hair and a tongue stud
Says that America is for him a maximum-security prison
Whose walls are made of RadioShacks and Burger Kings, and MTV episodes
Where you can’t tell the show from the commercials,
And as I consider how to express how full of shit I think he is,
He says that […]
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so we still have to endure another two months of election coverage
Friday 5 September 2008 | 2 cookies in the jar
“Large Hadron Collider will not turn world to goo, promise scientists” (Times)
If the world does end, though, at least I won’t have to teach next Thursday.
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