apocalypse category archives
and what happened then?
Tuesday 14 December 2010 | 6 cookies in the jar
And then I graduated, and then I asked him to, so the Brujo told me something, and then I moved out temporarily, and then he moved out permanently, and then I moved permanently too, and then a bunch of talking happened, although not nearly as much as you might expect, and then the Brujo broke [...]
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“everything is amazing right now, and nobody’s happy”
Tuesday 24 February 2009 | 15 cookies in the jar
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in lieu of anything more substantial
Tuesday 17 February 2009 | 5 cookies in the jar
Pride and Predator! As one disgusted commenter says, “This isn’t a movie; it’s an idea for a Facebook group.” Another sagely observes that, if you know how to read, Austen is already completely bloody terrifying. Eh bien—Hollywood moves in mysterious ways its travesties to perform. (NB however that the Guardian blog is copying y’all’s comment [...]
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at the limin
Thursday 12 February 2009 | I like a cookie
Our uncertainty and doubt extend to the infinite sky and throughout time, shrouding perfection, blurring truth, undermining what feeble faith we can muster, reminding us that we are both divine and mortal, that we live both inside time and outside time, that we are creatures of many worlds, and that we will always wonder, and [...]
now: with more bone-crunching action!
Saturday 31 January 2009 | 16 cookies in the jar
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, [...]
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the end is nigh
Wednesday 21 January 2009 | 10 cookies in the jar
As in, today in about an hour. As in, thirty-eight of what the Professoressa used to call with professional yet affectionate asperity, kidlets. Waiting dully but with feigned alert expressions for me to wave syllabi at them, mispronounce their names, explain about negotiating course requirements and grading contracts (because even immanentizing the eschaton we are all about Ira Shor), [...]
who was david, who goliath
Monday 19 January 2009 | 17 cookies in the jar
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. —Bion of Smyrna So, you stood down. So after three weeks you called it quits, having destroyed all there was to destroy this time around. And now you finally let the aid in, shake your heads sadly [...]
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warning shot
Wednesday 10 December 2008 | 6 cookies in the jar
If we do not, as we shamefully did in the Clinton era, put away our picket signs and picket lines, we may now begin to make real inroads toward that long overdue glasnost and perestroika that the US corporate oligarchy has been defending itself against since approximately May 1968. They are not going to give [...]
pimp my course
Tuesday 2 December 2008 | 19 cookies in the jar
So right now I have recruited fifteen students for the end of the world. The only hitch in mah git-along: fully thirteen of those students have names like Ashley and Brittany and Courtney. Because OMG I FORGOT I live in blonde Mormonworld, where Twilight was playing on all screens for a solid week, and where [...]
what can I say, I’m a hater
Wednesday 19 November 2008 | 10 cookies in the jar
So much am I a hater that I refuse to give this guy any of my faithless traffic; so g••gl• “john ziegler salesman,” but only if you feel like getting your hate on.
