Posted in Random, TV/Entertainment, Thoughts, tagged Entertainment, Society, Mp3, Music, books, Random, pop culture, Blogs, Stuff White People Like, Random House, Christian Lander, Race, Class, bloggers, wordpress on March 27, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Christian Lander, (co?)creator of Stuff White People Like, pictured here doing something white people enjoy doing.
So I hear the the Stuff White People Like blog is being turned into a book. (I also just realized that their blog uses the same site-theme as mine.) Random House, who are known to take some risks (especially [...]
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Posted in Random, Thoughts, tagged Mp3, download, Music, blogging, Writing, school, blog, Random, Internet, Procrastination, Name, Michael, Franz Ferdinand, Driving, traffic, driving etiquette, editing, offensive, homework, pet peeves on March 26, 2008 | 7 Comments »
“Random Numbers (#1)” 2002, by Mel Bochner
This is a post of randomness.
I was surfing the Internets recently (like I do for most of my waking hours), and I came across this nugget of wisdom:
Writing is 1% inspiration and 99% not being distracted by the Internet…
I cannot emphasize enough how true that statement is for [...]
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Posted in Thoughts, tagged age, aging, life, People, Society, youth on January 23, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Study of an Old Man in Profile — Rembrandt van Rijn
One of my biggest pet peeves (fairly recently developed) has to do with my age and, consequently, the age of my peers or people who I interact with…which is ridiculous as I will explain. It is when I hear:
“Oh wow, I’m so old.”
or
“Oh [...]
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Posted in Movies, Thoughts, tagged atheism, Avril Lavigne, books, Casino Royale, catholic church, catholicism, christianity, culture, Eva Green, film, John Lennon, literature, Movies, philip pullman, religion, the golden compass on January 11, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I was reading through some Xanga.com blogs and I came across an entry by Nathon, titled “Tarnished Compass,” about the new movie, The Golden Compass. If you don’t know already, the movie is based on the first of a series of books by an atheist author, Philip Pullman, who has expressly stated that at [...]
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Posted in Thoughts, Writing, tagged fiction, humanity, identity, life, Paul Laurence Dunbar, People, Phillip Roth, Poetry, Post Modern, self, Society, Writing on November 19, 2007 | 6 Comments »
“We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes –
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile
And mouth with myriad subtleties….”
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask
“It’s all impersonation–in the absence of a self, one impersonates selves, and after a while impersonates best [...]
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