The Blog You Never Knew You Didn’t Want to Read
Posted in Personal on Dec 18th, 2008
Winter break from school finds me in a state of novelty: I actually have some free time. Time enough, in fact, to do a bit of blogging. It’s a Christmas miracle.
I’d like to talk about the U.S. senate, which is a source of nearly endless amusement for me. Becoming a senator is one “when I [...]
Posted in Personal on Sep 11th, 2008
So I was about to log into Myspace earlier today and when I saw this:
They’re promoting pop-country starlet Taylor Swift with a reference to the classic Sex Pistols album. Because if there’s anyone who’s going to be interested in the Britney Spears of canned top-40 country music, it’s old school punk rockers, right? Allow me [...]
Posted in Personal on Jul 8th, 2008
The sole entry under the “See Also” heading on the Wikipedia page for smelling salts is “aromatherapy.” I don’t know if it’s the smelling salts people or the candle/incense people, but at least one of those camps should object to that.
Posted in Personal on Jun 22nd, 2008
Posted in Personal on Jun 19th, 2008
I don’t think there’s a lot of overlap between the subset of people who read this blog and the subset of people who care about baseball, but whatever. I’m writing about baseball anyway. Really though, I’m sure you can make connections as to how it applies to other things if you want, things you find [...]
Posted in Personal on Jun 13th, 2008
Michel Foucault is
a hypochondriac and
power is the germ
Posted in Personal on Jun 3rd, 2008
Hello, reader. Let’s play a game. Which one of the following movie premises is not like the other? Ready?
Adam Sandler is in love with a girl, but the it turns out the girl is a golden retriever or something.
Adam Sandler inherits like a billion dollars, but first he has to become a boxer or something
Adam [...]
Posted in Personal on May 26th, 2008
Dear George Lucas,
So then, about Indiana Jones 4…you’ve got to be kidding. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. I’d like to see the script that Ford refused to make. I don’t know, maybe this was his fault. Maybe that first script was better, and he sent it back to you riddled with post-it notes with messages like “more goofiness!” [...]
Posted in Personal on May 26th, 2008
Subject: FROM MR MIKES TO YOU (don’t use all caps.)
From: “Dear Sir/Madam” (mikeandree4@voila.fr) (put your name here, not a greeting)
Date: Mon, May 26, 2008 2:58 am
To: undisclosed-recipients:; (why? suspicious)
Dear Sir/Madam don’t you know who I am?
I am (a/the) manager of one of the leading company [...]
Posted in Personal on May 25th, 2008
I am of the opinion that making arguments of questionable validity does unquestionable damage to one’s position — it makes you look desperate, like you don’t have any stronger evidence to put forth. If you have really firmly established your strongest claims, then it might be time to move on to advancing the more debatable [...]