April 2009
29 posts
dinosaur jr - “I don’t want to go...
link: oh, no, a computer designed to compete on... →
my final tryout date is in may. I am so boned.
in which I use the gross new powers of the...
via twitter.
pr: Somehow, I don't think "civil rights for terrorists" is a winning strategy for the left
cec: @PatrickRuffini how about "enforcing rule of law?" or "abiding as per the treaty power to our obligations?" we are america, not zimbabwe.
pr: @imitation_sun I must have missed the ratification of the U.S. - al Qaeda treaty
cec: @PatrickRuffini but you couldn't have missed hamdan v. rumsfeld. terrorists must be brought to justice,but not w/an end-run around our laws.
-fin-
surprise, in under 140 characters you can concretely and legally refute arguments by those attempting to yoke the "social conservatives" and the dimmer libertarians together and call them a party.
the neighborhoods - “prettiest girl”...
on charmingly effective methods for refuting my...
ps: what does it say about me that I almost always like supporting characters on tv shows as people more than their respective protagonists?
cec: nothing.
ps: a lovably nihilistic way to end the day.
me, giving my first line from...
stanley lombardo reads book one of homer’s...
“[The fact that young people] were willing to shout down a police officer or...”
– azadeh moaveni, honeymoon in tehran (excerpt from michiko kakutani’s new york times review)
on a more practical takeaway from a larger...
cec: what'd you learn about birth control
eb: When women are not pregnant, they are attracted to men with different smells and therefore different immune systems.
eb: When pregnant, they are attracted to men with the same smells and therefore most likely family, etc.
eb: When on birth control, women lean much more towards acting when they are pregnant then they would without it. So, when they go off birth control, they may not be attracted to the men they are with ... or married.
cec: whoa
eb: Yeah.
eb: Its hard to even articulate how big this is.
cec: better change my deodorant
“Je ne sais pas, Monsieur. Je m’excuse.”
– a pimp by the nom du travail “prudent,” responding to a query as to motive by the man he had stabbed through the chest for refusing his solicitation. his victim was samuel beckett, who dropped charges.
bob dylan - samples from together through life
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notes: on acting, 3/14 & 4/15-18
I’m not a good actor, but I am, I think, an actor by nature. as a friend once correctly posited, “you’re an introvert posing as an extrovert. doesn’t that wear on you?” as such, self-reflection and -improvement is key for me whenever I do some acting work, or else I slip back into bad habits. tumblr’s format also makes it very easy to talk in dialogue about...
link: dubai, worst of all possible worlds →
this really speaks to the future in so many ways, all of them bad for the concept of the world as we twenty-somethings knew it. that’s not a bad thing, just… something to think about.
fiction excerpt: paul volcker, 11:15 pm
I dreamed that night of the cenotes we swam in back in the summers when we’d first met, the deep jungle sinkholes near the beach towns, far from the main smuggling conduits. But I was alone this time, and no matter how often I dove in I couldn’t see anything under the water—no trees, no roots, no sign of Bernardo. Eventually I clambered up a rock face only to find the tall trees giving...
dirty projectors - “rise above” (black...
“When I was young, I held my tongue back
and let my hand do my work.
Now, as...”
– odysseus, in “philoktetes” sophocles (tr. gregory mcnamee), 409 bc
the thames “cinder and smoke” (iron...
GPOYW.
