December 2008
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“Mom’s gonna make fake MySpace profiles and trick us into killing ourselves”
– me
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John Jacob Niles, “Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your...
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I could promise a wife—at home, I have lots of time around my family to compare/contrast real relationships to imaginary ones—that I will run any errand she needs after 7:00 p.m., especially if it’s to the grocery store (my favorite) or Dairy Queen. Whatever pops up, like if she needs shampoo or printer paper or her car filled up, I can do that. I would like to.
[Idea for new...
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A couple of months ago, I told my sister about my million-dollar idea to create a line of Stars of Food Network Christmas ornaments.
Tonight I got home to Atlanta and in the guest room where I am staying, she has put up the $20 plastic Christmas tree from my first apartment and made Stars of Food Network Christmas ornaments. HAHAHAHA.
If you need the high-res version of Angel Paula or...
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Karl Barth approximately
As part of my exam prep, I had to study Karl Barth’s model for interpersonal relationships. He refers to it as the “I/Thou encounter.”
If you hang with it, there is some really compelling, lovely stuff here. (Worth mentioning is that this I/Thou encounter is also his model for interactions between an individual and God.) Another student’s summary, edited, follows.
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Lie better about what you read
BBC poll, via TNR:
Nearly half of all men and one-third of women have lied about what they have read to try to impress friends or potential partners, a survey suggests. Men were most likely to do this to appear intellectual or romantic, found the poll of 1,500 people. The men polled said they would be most impressed by women who read news websites, Shakespeare or song lyrics. Women said men...
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Idea for new evangelism
Convert to Christianity and get one wish granted
Lord God, I’d like new living room furniture.
Prince of Peace, please give me the ability to read my girlfriend’s mind, because I think she might be a cheater.
Oh Heavenly Father, please give me an all-expenses-paid trip to Greece and someone to go with.
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Foreshadowing aggressive energy policy
This week Obama selected Steven Chu to be Secretary of Energy. The New Yorker writes about Chu:
Refrigerators consume a lot of energy; all alone, they account for almost fifteen per cent of the average home’s electricity use. In the mid nineteen-seventies, California—the state Chu now lives in—set about establishing the country’s first refrigerator-efficiency standards. Refrigerator...
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Synecdoche, New York
What started out as emotionally brutal (Emily Watson must have a huge appetite for that stuff) wound up as just sobering because of the complexity. That’s not a knock against it.
It’s possible that a work with so many layers of symbolism does not point to anything other than itself, and I don’t think that’s a knock against it, either. The movie is a machine with so many...
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Looking ahead to 2009
What would you all like to see covered more frequently on this weblog, cosplay or slash fiction?
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Poor Conan
NBC is fucking him over nearly as bad as they did Dave.
1. He’s spent 4.5 years waiting to become ‘the top dog,’ now he’ll be #2 again, still, forever. I cannot imagine what a morale blow this is.
2. They’re uprooting his show and his family to Los Angeles, where he will now have to compete with Jay for guests every night. Jay and Conan will fight on the same...
To those accustomed to the cold
I have Chapstick, but how do I prevent my face from becoming chapped?
How can I prevent my nose from going numb?
It is 18 degrees and humid, and it turns out that I don’t know cold.
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I didn’t write this, but I mean it deeply. Let’s all follow each other, yall, we’ll be like a human tumblr lattice or a catcher in the rye or one of...
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Smog theology pt. 2
I’m sitting here writing this stupid theology paper when I remembered Smog already did it first and better, like everything (e.g. Cat Power):
I want to tell you about a man You won’t find him on your MTV He doesn’t drop acid He doesn’t even read Dick K. Phillips He’s not a seminal member of New York’s new wave scene He doesn’t publish a phantazine His...
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Fleetwood Mac, “Save Me a Place”
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"Jim Carrey will loom large in our shattered... →
The Atlantic manages to be thoughtful in a lot of different areas. Last month’s article about the sham of airport security was impressive, too.
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Carly Simon, “Coming Around Again”
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“Mozart’s music always sounds unburdened… This is why it unburdens us.”
– KARL BARTH. I’m not a classical music listener, but the idea stands.
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I wish the camera was on the back of my screen so that I could show you the people in my classes. Such as the enormous fleece-clad Black girl who has fallen asleep during the past three classes and whose head vibrates in this terrifying way while she snores. Or the guy who fought in Iraq and now wears clothes that make him look like Oliver Twist heading to war (wool tweed coat, baker boy cap,...
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