From Cerebrosus Lens Geek-this is why I love Linux:

What are people's thoughts on hosting a party this weekend? I think I wanna have a tennis team thing on Friday maybe, so I was thinking that we have one on Saturday night? Maybe talk to teh neighbzorz and throw Block Party Part II?

I thought this was great, I think my dad took it when he came down:

Clark 2 Couch Stealin'

http://wesleyan-acb.livejournal.com/5309.html?thread=21610429#t21610429

Apparently the Clark 2 couch has been stolen from the lounge. That happened when we were frosh, but we're awesome and we stole it back. WHY is the victorious picture from that mission not on the living room wall?

Goddamn,
pkc

This post is mostly for the doctor, cuz who else follows basketball drama....but this is a track that Jay Z cut for a party Lebron hosted in which Hova disses Deshawn Stevensen. Holla.

Been too long since the last post, my apologies. (from www.caglepost.com)

I think nstrand was talking about the zippo that I took upstairs. However, the normal little (green I think?) lighter that was in the kitchen has gone missing. This has led me to quite a panic, so if anyone knows of its whereabouts, give me a hint.

food recommendation

most delicious junx: the new stuffed salmon in the fridge at weshop. sooo good. only about 4.50 in points. worth it for people with points to spare.

and lighting a cigarette with an electric stove: works. i promise i wasn't trying to burn down the house bauer/gedney; i was totally on top of the whole process. still don't know where that lighter went though, but it wasn't me who moved it.

If you can figure your way around the system, why not?
Texas inmate cons his way onto Idaho primary ballot.

I'm really happy that I didn't watch the debate last night because evidently ABC and the two moderators did a horrendous job that would have really pissed me off when I was already pissed off. Now I'm watching a video of the complete incompetence of these moderators which just shows how stupid they are. It's kind of funny at this point. And they, along with ABC, are getting slammed.

Photos of Young Jeezy

"Fuck the club, dog, I'd rather count a million bucks"

i changed the settings so this blog won't appear in search engine results - no need for goddamn internet people to be reading our shit. boy, i guess i should have a link to a funny internet or somethin', huh? oh, i know. can we have a house or extended family dinner this week? we haven't done that in awhile, and with Bauer turning in his presentation and Sveenks giving her presentation, people should be less busy, yeah?

From Digg:

my first and maybe only post. worth it though.

my favorite thing in the world right now:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MaP9eiWuX3s

Corgi Poem 1

If I sailed the Seven Seas
And needed a first mate
I would choose a Welsh Corgi
With no need for debate.

And if he led us far astray
To the land of the Hindoos
I'd shrug my shoulders and then say
"At least I'm lost with you."

And if he led us up to the sky
Onto a cloud divine
I would smile and softly sigh
For that cloud would number nine.

Number 17

How could I forget? SM101 by Jay Wiseman. It's been around for awhile, and while some folks probably aren't too big on it, it's a pretty safe bet as far as introductory BDSM books go. The book really covers all the bases, and is quite informative. His writing style is quite easy to get in to, and the book's is actually pretty funny. And Wiseman, a former EMT and med student, has a real focus on safety, which I think is important in a book essentially written for newcomers to the scene.

Hillary Says Memphis Should be National Champions Despite Kansas Having More Points at the End

So looks like the Dr. went a little crazy with his first postings...I Love It. Also, Lollipop, hell yea. Also, Will Eggers had us watch an entire episode of Seinfeld for my 50 minute linguistics class.

Pictures of Pandas and Corgis

I encourage everyone to find and add their own!

In a fit of brilliance

IF SOCRATES WAS A FOOD CRITIC: "The unexamined food is not worth eating."

IF PRESIDENT ROTH OWNED A COMPANY THAT SPECIALIZED IN BUYING MARK ROTHKO PAINTINGS...would he call it Roth Co.?

IF PLAY-DOH SOLD A SET THAT INCLUDED INSTRUCTIONS FOR BUILDING YOUR OWN GOVERNMENT IN WHICH THE CITIZENS HAVE A SAY...would it be called Play-Doh's Republic?

YOU KNOW THOSE "I HEART NY" T-SHIRTS?...well what if someone from Norway wore a "I heart fjords" t-shirt on a visit to HARTFORD?

First Post!@@@!

It is appropriate that I make this first blog post when I really should be studying for my physics test tomorrow.

Speaking of African-American studies, from the rapper who said "Beatin up yo block, yeah I get my Emmitt Till on," I must draw everyone's attention to his amazing new video for the first single off the eagerly anticipated (amirite Pauri???) The Carter III:

(My favorite line is "I told her back it up like burp, burp")

The sound is a bit screwy, but I wanted to make sure to post the explicit version, and this was the best I could find.

The Best Books You've Read in College

I never got to take all the classes that sound interesting at Wesleyan, and often didn't finish all the reading even when I wanted to. Eventually, I started finishing readings over breaks as a way to enjoy some good reading/ease my guilt. Hopefully, this makes sense as an introduction. The point is, we're all going to make lists of the best books (/articles/maybe even other media, though films should perhaps be a separate list) we've read in college. We are going to share these lists. It is going to be awesome. While presumably these lists will be mostly comprised of literature, personally, I think it'd be cool if one or two of the best texts from everybody's area of scholarship (American Studies, English, Theatre, Philosophy, Dance, even Bio and Math [if that shit is readable/not boring]) also made some appearances. I like procrastinating, so I'ma start this business.

(Note: I'm gonna number stuff but there isn't any min/max. Also, I'll probably add more on later.)

1. Racial Formation in the United States, Michael Omi and Howard Winant. Probably the most academic bit on my list, this book is seriously so good. Do you want the book that everyone cites when they give their definition of race at the beginning of their books? Do you want a set of insanely useful theoretical tools for thinking about race and racism? Do you want to know why defining race as a function of class, nation, or ethnicity isn't good enough? Do you want to learn about all sorts of neo-conservative and neo-liberal racial projects? Do you want an absolute American-Studies-gasm? Of course you do.

2. A Different Mirror, Ronald Takaki. A survey history of the United States that bounces from ethnic group to ethnic group in each chapter. I know it's a good pleasure read cause Zaza actually emailed me from India once to tell me about this book she was reading and how it talked about African and Irish Americans totally not getting along and I was like 'OMG Takaki!' This book should replace high school history textbooks and will make up for your crappy high school American history education. Also, probably more fun/accessable than Omi & Winant.

3. King Lear, Shakespeare. So brutal. One of his more metal plays. Check out the Japanese film version: Ran, I think.

4. The Hunger of Memory, Richard Rodriguez. A truly excellent writer and memoirist. I started reading one of his other memoirs for my essay, then changed directions, and was finding myself getting in more fights with Rodriguez over politics, but his stuff is really so lyrical and thought-provoking.

5. Song of the Dodo, David Quamen. Could be wrong on author's name. Written for the public, sweet intro to biogeography, habitat loss, biodiversity, environmentalism. Also a travel book. I really liked it.

6. Moby Dick, Herman Melville. Totally deserving of its place in the American canon. As I write this, a song from a heavy metal semi-concept album based on this book has come on my iTunes, which is set on random. There you have it.

7. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. I like Douglass a lot, I'd be interested in reading the whole narrative and more of his stuff.

8. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs. Another cool slave narrative.

9. Real Indians, Eva Marie Garroutte. A totally ass-kicking exploration of the ways Indian and mixed Identity is defined in the United States. Really, really interesting and, for me, applicable to all sorts of topics.

10. Corregidora, Gayl Jones. Cool novel from my Afam women's lit course at UCD. Really bluesy. Another brutal one, but not as hopeless as Lear.

11. Dessa Rose, Sherley Ann Williams. Another one from that Afam class. Historical novel about a runaway slave and a white woman. Told from multiple perspectives. I don't think I tend to like attempts to deal with slavery through novelistic reimaginings, but I like this one.

12. Ulysses, James Joyce. OK, fair, I haven't finished it yet haven't had the time it requires you to give to it and it does require some fair effort it does being a modernist or is it approaching post modernist piece and Joyce loves to experiment and reference and allude and not use punctuation but I will finish it yes I said yes I will Yes.

13. The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie. Apparently the quintessential post-modern novel, according to my prof at UCD (I was in a lot of lit classes there). Experimental as hell, like Ulysses, but something you should confident that you can read, enjoy, and think about, even if, like me, you don't entirely get it. Rushdie's explorations of power, race, transnationalism, Britain, and India are fascinating, but his raw literary power is enough to put the book on your 'to read' list. This is the one that pissed off the Iranians so much they put out a death threat that forced Rushdie underground for years.

14. Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia. Garcia takes the multiple perspective thing from Dessa Rose to a whole other level in this novel about several generations of a Cuban family (apparently I write more and more like a book reviewer as I work through this post?). The mix of writing styles is really exciting, a bit of a virtuosic display. Deals with issues of family, identity, and international politics in a totally sweet way.

15. Black, White, and Jewish, Rebecca Walker. WEX has drilled the mantra of 'show don't tell' into my head impressively thoroughly. Walker shows better than pretty much any of the other authors I've read for 'Mixed in America.' One of the best in the alleged 'mixed race memoir' genre which I apparently am studying this semester.

16. Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison. Almost forgot this one. I think I like it more than The Bluest Eye.


Goddamn. I gotta remember to not start capitalizing my sentences at the beginning of these things, or else I'm stuck doing if for the rest of the post. Have fun reading all those, I expect solid analytical papers. Also, if our lists of favorite books overlap, or if some folks in the house have read stuff that people list, we might have quite the friggin' Venn diagram on our hands. Think about it.

Burn all flags, live in peace,
pkc

The Anti-Drug

The Black Oven

I find this terribly confusing, but also extremely delicious-looking. What do you say, Patrick?

This is really fun.

This is from digg (where else), the original server crashed and the mirror is slow so I took a screenshot:



link

I have also been part of an ant-sighting. It wanted to go for a dip into the jacuzzi that was my cup of tea (I think it's lucky that I didn't let it).

Also, a deer.

Ant alert!

we saw/killed some ants in the kitchen. keep your eyes open, kill ants if you see 'em/keep track of any sitings. properly store sugary things/clean up sugary spills.

i <3 ants, but they can't be getting cozy in our kitchen.

McCain

An email from moveon.org listing nasty things about McCain. Should be good info to have when all the Clinton supporters you know decide to support McCain when Obama gets the nomination.

McKinney in '08!

ps - Sorry, I couldn't find a link so I had to copy and paste the entire text.

Dear MoveOn member,

For all the coverage this week of Senator John McCain's background, there are some important things you won't learn about him from the TV networks. His carefully crafted positive image relies on people not knowing this stuff—and you might be surprised by some of it.

Please check out the list below, and then forward it to your friends, family, and coworkers. We can't rely on the media to tell folks about the real John McCain—but if we all pass this along, we can reach as many people as CNN Headline News does on a good night.

Click here to tell us how many people you can pass it on to—and to see our progress nationally:

http://pol.moveon.org/mccain10/?id=12407-6714057-rclLLM&t=231

10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don't):

1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has "evolved," yet he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.¹

2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make Cheney look like Gandhi."²

3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.³

4. McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."⁴

5. The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children's health care bill last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.⁵

6. He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.⁶

7. Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."⁷

8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.⁸

9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a "false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a "false cult."⁹

10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.¹⁰

John McCain is not who the Washington press corps make him out to be. Please help get the word out—forward this email to your personal network. And if you want us to keep you posted on MoveOn's work to get the truth out about John McCain, sign up here:

http://pol.moveon.org/mccaintruth/?id=12407-6714057-rclLLM&t=232

Thank you for all you do.

–Eli, Justin, Noah, Laura, and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Sources:
1. "The Complicated History of John McCain and MLK Day," ABC News, April 3, 2008
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/the-complicated.html

"McCain Facts," ColorOfChange.org, April 4, 2008
http://colorofchange.org/mccain_facts/

2. "McCain More Hawkish Than Bush on Russia, China, Iraq," Bloomberg News, March 12, 2008
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aF28rSCtk0ZM&refer=us

"Buchanan: John McCain 'Will Make Cheney Look Like Gandhi,'" ThinkProgress, February 6, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/06/buchanan-gandhi-mccain/

3. "McCain Sides With Bush On Torture Again, Supports Veto Of Anti-Waterboarding Bill," ThinkProgress, February 20, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/20/mccain-torture-veto/

4. "McCain says Roe v. Wade should be overturned," MSNBC, February 18, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17222147/

5. "2007 Children's Defense Fund Action Council^® Nonpartisan Congressional Scorecard," February 2008
http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=act_learn_scorecard2007

"McCain: Bush right to veto kids health insurance expansion," CNN, October 3, 2007
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/03/mccain.interview/

6. "Beer Executive Could Be Next First Lady," Associated Press, April 3, 2008
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-S1sWHm0tchtdMP5LcLywg5ZtMgD8VQ86M80

"McCain Says Bank Bailout Should End `Systemic Risk,'" Bloomberg News, March 25, 2008
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aHMiDVYaXZFM&refer=home

7. "Will McCain's Temper Be a Liability?," Associated Press, February 16, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=4301022

"Famed McCain temper is tamed," Boston Globe, January 27, 2008
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/27/famed_mccain_temper_is_tamed/

8. "Black Claims McCain's Campaign Is Above Lobbyist Influence: 'I Don't Know What The Criticism Is,'" ThinkProgress, April 2, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/02/mccain-black-lobbyist/

"McCain's Lobbyist Friends Rally 'Round Their Man," ABC News, January 29, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4210251

9. "McCain's Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam," Mother Jones Magazine, March 12, 2008
http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2008/03/john-mccain-rod-parsley-spiritual-guide.html

"Will McCain Specifically 'Repudiate' Hagee's Anti-Gay Comments?," ThinkProgress, March 12, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/12/mccain-hagee-anti-gay/

"McCain 'Very Honored' By Support Of Pastor Preaching 'End-Time Confrontation With Iran,'" ThinkProgress, February 28, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/28/hagee-mccain-endorsement/

10. "John McCain Gets a Zero Rating for His Environmental Record," Sierra Club, February 28, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/environment/77913/

Why John Edwards can't endorse Hillary Clinton. (youtube video)

Who's the real patriot?

anybody know some good gel that might actually allow me to spike this business?

Personifying keyboard keys. I am this nerdy (you all are too, so don't hate).

Dog caught in mid-shake. (When I read that the first time I definitely thought it said "dog caught in milk-shake...this is almost as cool as that would have been)

Everybody's new best friend, the polar bear.