[new] job hooray!!

so most of you should know, i finally landed a legit, paying job. the kind i've been going after since october! holla. i have yet to update my all-important facebook and linked in job descriptions, but they will be reading "administrative coordinator for management sciences for health." i'll generally be doing support work for field staff who run workshops and trainings in developing countries, relating to pharamaceutical distribution systems. start on monday (3/2), so actual specifics/nature of work not entirely clear till then.

for your perusing pleasure, if you wish to know more about my junx, you may investigate at the following websites:

MSH homepage

Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems project website/description


I'm working on finding a place to live in dc or arlington this weekend until it gets done, but am so excited that i can finally truly get my post-grad independent life underway!

[and herein ends nathan's self-absorbed life update posting.]

what we all knew all along

so obama retook the oath of office last night from the honorable chief justice john roberts "just to make sure" there weren't any technicalities they missed during the inauguration recitation. But there was one technicality they didn't seem to remember - the second, "flawless recitation...included no bible..." Big surprise. Of course a SECRET MUSLIM wouldn't be sworn in on a bible when it really counted! I wouldn't surprised if there just so happened to be a Koran present for the official, second swearing in, just like there was in the senate. WELCOME TO OUR NEW ISLAMIC THEOCRACY! BEST FRIENDS FOREVER WITH IRAN AND OSAMA BIN LADEN!

From Digg (http://flickr.com/photos/10039214@N03/3202684534/)

WeSenator

Michael Bennet, '87, is gunna be the next senator from Colorado, appointed to take Ken Salazar's spot! He is currently the Denver Public Schools Superintendent, and you might be familiar with his father, first name Douglas...

I saw that Wesleying has a post about it already, but I was too lazy to post any other links. Yall can do your own research.

But how cool is it that there will be a US Senator from Wesleyan?

ok, also

http://twistedmonk.blogspot.com/2008/12/porch-pastor-sent-this-one-along-to-me.html

this shit is hilarious.

the porn that is in our house

our roomates came home last night after rummaging through the dumpster of a japanese/korean video store that is going out of business with armfuls of korean porn video tapes. hilarious.

um, that i had more to say about that. i tried reading the article nathan posted about teh atheistz, but got bored and frustrated, so fuck that.

urban adventours is lookin' for a marketing intern. so spread the word among college kids you know - work for a green company!

Interesting Sunday Articles

Iraqi journalist throws both his shoes at Pres. Bush, as detailed in this post article.

Hilarious. As is Bush's response, but in an intentional way, for once.

But also highly symbolic, if you read - "Throwing a shoe at someone is considered the worst possible insult in Iraq, and is meant to show extreme disrespect and hatred towards someone."

Other interesting stories I read today...

The whole nativity scene/atheist message debate. Quite an interesting ongoing story these days. I like the comments made by the Christian guy near the end of this article. I certainly don't quite side with the atheists on this one. But I'll never be an ally of the religious right.

Also there is this crazy article about corporal punishment in Iran. This guy threw acid on a woman who rejected him, blinding and horribly disfiguring her. Now she has invoked Islamic law to have him equally punished - 5 drops of acid to be dropped in each of his eyes (!). This is problematically interesting in the realm of "exotic", "backwards" cultural exhibitionism. But more so, I thought it was an interesting human interest story. Pictures of this chick are definitely disturbing.

B-Rock n Roll Music

Some sweet songs I cam across in this post article. Check 'em out if you haven't heard. Any others?

Nas - Black President

Will.I.am - It's a new day. (def watch this video)

Ron Brownz f/ Busta Rhymes - Pop Champagne (Remix)

Jay-Z - History (not released yet - a shortened preview)

Young Jeezy f/ Nas - My President is Black


There are many other small act songs too, I bet, including some from white people I'm sure. But these are hott and all I got for now.

My Diary

11/3/08 - i drove a pickup truck full of identical black suitcases while sitting next to an Iraqi man (no english) and listening to bluegrass (his choice). doesn't that sound like some sort of weird dream?*

11/4/08 - Barack Obama was elected president.

11/5/08 - I like America.






*[i got an internship starting last week with the Int'l Rescue Committee Refugee Resettlement Office in Suburban Washington DC. I mainly work with Asylees, gettin' them the services they need. Anyways, I'm really enjoy the work and people, but ain't gettin' paid none.]

Victory!

obviously i wish mckinney had done well enough to garner some national attention but still: HELLZ YEAH MOTHERBITCHEZ!!!

before we get carried away with this 'yes we did' business - we haven't done much of anything yet. this is the first, and easiest step. the man is elected - and now the challenge is fulfilling the promises that this event holds. obama needs to be held to higher standards than any head of state that has come before him, because there's no reason barack obama shouldn't be the greatest president in american history up to this point. it's not just the past eight years we need to recover from. that's why i proudly and futilely cast my vote for cynthia mckinney this morning: because there are litterally hundreds of years of american history that from which we need to recover - hundreds of years of injustice and shitty presidents that we need to make up for. and ultimately, i believe something more radical than the democratic party is needed to fulfill the promise of the united states.

but tonight i'm a bit overwhelmed with joy and hope. this could be an amazing start of something. they keep trying to tell me this is the most important election of my lifetime, and i kinda hope they're right. i hope this is the turning point.

and also, i totally wish i could be on foss hill tonight: shit is almost assuredly bananas.

be well, stay strong. love you guys.

pkc

VOTE MAIA!

Hey guys. So my mom has decided to enter maia into a halloween pet contest in our local newspaper. Cause now she's an empty nester, and is going a little nuts. She's dressed as a librarian, and if i may say so myself, she looks pretty damn classy. If you'd like to see for yourself, go here and click on view&vote. They make you sign up, but its relatively painless. She's at 7/22 right now, but there are some dogs ahead of her who are WAY less cute. So lets change that. Think of it as practice for voting in the real election. Everyone needs voting practice. It's always small dogs that win these contests, and its time for a change. AMERICA wants change!!

Sarah Palin spends half the debate winking at America (from Huff Post)

from digg

yall should check out toby keith at his best

of course yall kno who toby keith is. the ass clown country singer who makes more money in a day than i will make in my lifetime. anyway, check out this ridic video. yall may have seen this, but maybe yall haven't. this is a ford commercial that they show in texas. maybe they also do it in other states. totally encompasses the stereotype of the conservative, idiot redneck who just has to drive a gas guzzler

beantowngreentown

i love how bizarre this shit is gettin:

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/09/new-gop-spin-palins-not-ready.html


anyways, i think my friends should come visit me this fall - not just because i'm emo and miss y'all, but cause y'all could hop on a totally sweet bike tour for not a lotta money. just an idea i had.

sometimes i have ideas.

via digg

what a vp pick...

i know the news is old now, but still, for real mccain? such a ridiculous pick for vp. talk about no experience... and it is such a pathetic ploy to go after hillary's people. but knowing the idiots populating middle america, it might just work.

the sweetest tidbit of news about her is that, turns out her 17-year old daughter is 5 months pregnant. WOW. conservative values. and certainly no abortion allowed. that, in addition to her down syndrome child, are just two shining (unfortunate) examples of how the unavailability of abortion can affects individuals. and they are a well off family. p.s. what kind of mother has time to run for vp with a down syndrome infant at home and 4 other kids to worry about?

if she were a democrat, we wouldn't hear the end of the mud slinging attacks about having an underage pregnant daughter, not to mention much much more respectable critique of her policy positions and complete lack of experience. BUT, she is a republican, which means her political enemies have a little too much dignity to stoop that low. but, oh, i wish we had some sort of disownable slimeball to unleash upon her, you know, like the typical republican pundit.


update: my mother was really digging the online investigative journalism regarding this case...

So Palin brought out this news to quell rumors that her daughter is the real mother of her down syndrome child. But, maybe this pregnancy is just a staight lie, and the kid really is her grandchild. This would play out as a sad "miscarriage" for her daughter come december, conveniently past election time and all that media interest jazz. I think full clarity on the truth demands some proof that the daughter is not the mother of the past child (DNA test, perhaps publication of the birth certificate), or some compelling evidence that Palin was actually pregnant while in office. Supposedly she did some fashion mag photo shoot when the down syndrome kid was 5 months in the womb. Also, her water broke, then she immediately thereafter took a 12 hour plane ride, then had the kid. So, questions remain. But, all this stuff is second hand blog entry info, and thus not reliable. It is something to think about though. If she's lying she would definitely get canned as vp candidate, methinks.

xkcd: Frustration
"Don't worry, I can do it in under a minute."
"Yea...I've noticed."

obey the fucking frog

I've dropped the ball and it won't happen again. Also, Patrick and I have a new home as of September 1st in Allston (near BU). Holla.

update from the hub

hey dudes. first of all, happy shark week - i saw some good mythbusters shark week special action last night, and there's some guy talking about being attacked by a great white. les stroud (still so much better than bear 'phony ass' grills) will apparently teach us at some point about surviving sharks. great whites have always been my favorite - absolutely insane animals. there's some sort of sharks and rays exhibit at the new england aquarium in boston, which they advertise with signs that read: 'SHAAAHHHHHHKKK!' (this is how every fuckin' product advertises in boston).
pauri and i have started talking about getting an apartment. i've been pokin' around on craigslist. the way i view it, boston is more expensive than providence (sveenks) but less expensive than nyc (bowser), but probably a lot cooler than providence, if not the crazy behemoth that is new york. bike tours are going well, i'm putting in a lot of hours and starting to get the hang of it. figure i gotta rake in the dough while it's biking/tourist season.
carlos sastre won the tour de france. ironically enough, i didn't really watch this year.

ridiculous politics

Washington Post headline: "US, Iraq agree to 'Time Horizon' for US Troop Withdrawal"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/18/AR2008071801308.html?hpid=topnews

No need to actually read it, I just want to point out how ridiculous it is that Bush would do anything to avoid calling it a "time table." Time horizon... plleeeaaaseee. Politics are hilariously lame.

Finally home after a long, glorious trip.

http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/main.html

i have stumbled upon a book called "without sanctuary." for those of you who know, the books makes you cringe, scared (as a colored person), and angry at the same time. the book depicts how, upon the advent of photography, lynchings, mostly of african/italian americans were captured by snapshots and sold as postcards. the pics in the book are truly gruesome. as a point of reference, i saw the most horrible films captured of survivors of the holocaust and from north korea, but none of them come close to the sheer awe and incredulity of what i saw in this book. i seriously warn you, the book is not for the faint of heart. the book shows images of 10, sometimes thousands, of people standing around a corpse of a dead body. mind you, the background of these are not too different from you or i. there are educated people, blue-collar, white-collar, people who just stand around a dead body as if it were nothing. looking at their faces you see no remorse, nor does it seem to dawn upon them of the horrific act that just occurred to an innocent person. i have posted a link to their website, however i warn you, these pictures are truly graphic. i should also note that the notes on the postcards are even more frightening than the pictures themselves. 

sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=adande_ja&page=sonicsmove_080702

the link is right here. still not used to blogging... period

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so this is bullshit

i kno there is plenty more in the world to be worried about, but as a sports fan, this really pisses me off. espn writer j.a. adande says it better than i can, though. this is about the supersonics moving out of seattle thanks to that coward david stern.

Maybe some of you already know this, but marriage prep is fuckin ccccrrrrraaaazzzzzyyyyyy

straight out of ohio (Oh, hio...)

one man sums up the entirety of obama ignoramity. hilariously disturbing.
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901871_2.html?hpid=topnews)

quote: "I think Obama would be a disaster, and there's a lot of reasons," said Pollard, explaining the rumors he had heard about the candidate from friends he goes camping with. "I understand he's from Africa, and that the first thing he's going to do if he gets into office is bring his family over here, illegally. He's got that racist [pastor] who practically raised him, and then there's the Muslim thing. He's just not presidential material, if you ask me."

just to tackle the newest rumor: African illegal immigrants?! how would it be illegal, if authorized by the president? not to mention how they'd have green cards, and probably could easily have them already, without obama's status, given their economic standing and american relatives. and who the hell would think a senator wouldn't be able to pull such strings already, anyways?

i just wonder how such voters are actually going to be brought into the obama camp. and then how many of them are out there?

democracy = idiocracy?

sorry bout the lateness of updateness

hollaz,

i forget about this blog thing, ya know, since it isn't really my internet thing. perhaps if we ran some sort of wrestling video/political news service i might be more attuned. i guess we're half way there.


i'll fill in the second half:





(the british guy here, sir william regal, reminds me a lot of you bauer)


OR, just better yet, let's straight up combine the two things:





anyways, on to non-youtube things, such as me.

so i was all up in europe starting the friday after graduation. went to belfast, dublin area for my cousin's wedding, oslo and the norwegian countryside, and stockholm (all with my pop and sister). then i was in amsterdam for 6 days and dublin for 2 with julia. twas quite the trip. norway was the best part, for sure. place is extremely expensive though, but once i got over that (my father was paying anyways), it was da bomb dot com. dudes there are all looking like me, except they all gel up their hair crazy, and the local scenary... wooo! (and yes i am referring both to hot women and natural sights). there are undoubtedly thousands upon thousands of awesome waterfalls, mountains, and lakes in that fine country. we also got to visit my third cousin for an afternoon, on her commercial farm. it was great. very distant relatives and awesome homeland. and that was just norway. ireland was great as usual, though i had better beer and food on my way back through dublin. wedding was fun, except too many old people in my family. also, no one in ireland has any rhythm. but i "did" ireland in '06, so i didn't do much touristing this time. belfast was nice, for the two nights i was there. certainly plenty of history with IRA/loyalist conflict, which ties into religious stuff. they are only recently coming out of the "troubles" of the past. and then amsterdam, i've been to, and it was ok. a week with julia alone was rough at times, but we survived eachother. saw eurocup games in netherlands when the team was playing, which was great, and got to enjoy many aspects of amsterdamese life, including that ganj, which i've decided ain't really my thing (plus illegal and weird to do outside of college). so it was a fine trip, indeed.

i got home last friday, and have really been doing very little. this past week was scheduled for job-searching, researching stuff, but i was just getting my summer on as of late. seeing friends, watching the entire star wars saga (one to go; i've really come to like the first three now, with their fairly complex plots beneath the oft-critiqued film quality. but i just love star wars, no matter what). i've also been playing tennis again, with my momma. got a new racket earlier this week, and have been steadily improving. pandian will need to give me some free lessons though, so i can start not-sucking. tuesday, i start my summer job, working for int'l student admissions office, once again, to register new international peoples in public schools. i got a raise and kinda a promotion, as i have more duties this year. we'll see how it goes being a bureaucrat again. i was a little too uptight last summer, although the job demands it.

and otherwise... my house had (still has) fleas, it sucked(s). i've read a great rwanda book by philip goerevitch, and then the omnivore's dilemma by some other guy, which i highly recommend. i have a lot to say about food in america, maybe another post. i'm really ready to not live at home, but it will have to wait till september once i can actively find a job. i'm planning on dc or new york for my near future.

so it's all good in the hood. i could use some more direction and independence, but generally, things are going alright. i oft dream of people from college. patterson was in me dreams last night, but with shaved beard and a high annoying voice. lol.

www.urbanadventours.com


i'm workin' for these motherfucks now. started by a wes alum. sweet bicycle tours of boston. unsure of how i feel about the place. where are y'all workin'?

pkc

The lack of posts by anyone but me and Patrick is a bit disconcerting, considering we already do and will continue to see each other far more often than any of y'all...POST!

The great thing about most articles by Thomas Friedman (this one from today's Times included) is that they just make sense.

Hi, so I'm gonna put all of my good photos on flickr when I get back, but I took this photo yesterday and thought it was cool. It was inside of an auto-rickshaw with my mom and sister as we went to a store to buy saris (shoe shopping...)

new rule

that i just made up: if your response to the 'accusation' that obama is a muslim is not something to the effect of 'this shit is insanely bigoted' you aren't allowed to call yourself a liberal any more.

tell your friends.

(wesleying has a post about it which is why i'm making this random post. kthnxbi.)

So it's about 2:30 am right now. I made the mistake of sleeping most of the day and thus, jetlag is back. Hopefully I'll cure it over the weekend. The next couple of weeks are going to be quite hectic, fairly different from this week where I've done nothing (been very relaxing).

marriage in california

i've always been proud that massachusetts was the first state to legalize marriage. it's an issue that needs to be pushed in a more radical direction, i think. if we're going to live in a society in which government authorization is necessary to symbolically and (more importantly) legally legitimate a family or relationship, than such a right has to be freely available to all types of families, regardless of the gender, sexuality, or number of folks involved. the boston globe ran an article last sunday about the push to create a legal method for granting friendships some of the benefits of marriage (which, to be fair, can be accomplished with living wills, durable power of attorney, etc). anyway, i found a kinda touching video about the california decision.

I'm kinda going crazy right now. And considering that the reason I came to India so early was so that I could be here on my sister's birthday and didn't arrive (b/c of the delays) until there was only a half hour left of it, I'm kinda sad that I wasn't in the Hub for the game. Especially because I would have been at the game.

Anyways, if any of y'all watched the game and saw Paul Pierce and Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett crying after it was all said and done, you now know why I cared about this team. My dad had a great time at the game and said he's never been in a stadium that was crazier than the Garden was, and we've been to a World Cup semi before, so I'm impressed with the amount of love by the fans in Boston.

I miss you all and will update here and on flickr as the weeks progress, and I do want to say that when I get back, I'm working on getting weekends off from work, and I want to have everyone at my house at some point to see the place and chill by the beach and go kayaking (yes, I've always been a badass, and now I'm a badass with a kayak) and drink and eat and have some fun.

Be safe everyone, and pick up the slack with the posting, as it's a bit more difficult for me to do so here. I wish I had brought my Ubuntu cd's so I could replace the spyware/adware/virus filled computer that my cousins are using with a good OS. Miss you all. GREEN 17 BABY!!!

The Celtics...

...kicked ass like you would not believe and are now the champs - and pauri is in india. which is kinda ridiculous, but whatever. the point is, all the toasts paid off.

I Live

Hey, guys. Sorry for not posting anything earlier. As soon as I got past feeling incredibly crappy and unwilling to do much of anything that required thought all the time I was suddenly working in New Haven and I didn't have any time to do anything ever! But work's eased up a bit, so I thought I'd ramble incessantly at you and the internet for a while.

So after gradutation [sic] I spent two weeks at home not wanting to be at home. It was bizarre; I was essentially shellshocked, being torn away from school so fast. I didn't have any time to adjust, to ease out of Wesleyan. It was just over and I was at fucking home again. The worst part, of course, is that I haven't even been able to move onto the next thing, you know? Two weeks at home with no direction or anything to do. Most of my friends aren't even in Maine for most of this summer. On the plus side, I did use my time to read The Sound and the Fury and re-read Dune. The former is amazing, the latter was... not as good as I recalled from high school, when I first read it. I suppose that's to be expected.

At least I'm New Haven (at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas) and have something to do, now. Quite a lot to do, actually. I'm working minimum eight-hour days six days a week. It's only a three-week job, granted, but I'll definitely be pretty fucking exhausted by the end of it. Not to mention in better shape; I'm on my feet all day, constantly lifting heavy shit, and I'd forgotten how much better I eat when I'm buying my own food. So that's a plus.

Another plus is my festival assignment this week. I'm Assistant Stage Manager to a guy named Ray Dobson, who's both the Technical Director for the festival and the Stage Manager for this week's concert series in a beautiful Yale Law School courtyard. Ray is basically an enormous badass. The man knows how to do everything. He's got these three roadcase toolboxes on wheels, one of which is as tall as me, that contain... just about everything you could ever need for building or working with electrics. He's also enormous and a bit terrifying, but he seems to like me, which is good. I'm looking forward to learning all sorts of useful shit from him.

What else? I've finally got a day off on Friday, and I'm going to visit Gedney in Middletown around dinnertime. Still no new developments there, really. Feelings are lame, as we all know. Anyway, she's working on Friday until 5:00, and I have nothing to do all day, soooo... if anyone wants to come to New Haaaaaven, give me a call.

I miss you all RAH-ther a lot.

So this trip hasn't begun as well as it could have. My six hour delay at JFK (bad weather so the airport closed) resulted in me missing my connection in Brussels. So now, instead of going from Brussels straight to Chennai, I go from Brussels to Delhi, then Delhi to Chennai. The funny thing is that I booked this flight so that I wouldn't have to go through Delhi. Oh well, God must really want me to see Indira Gandhi International Airport again.

I hope all is well at home, and go Celtics. Beat LA!

From SNL (video from breitbart.tv):

Different Strategy?

muthafuckin update

what's up mother bitches?

so i keep meaning to post on this, and have ideas for longer entries but i figured just a basic summary of what i've been up to may be in order. i just got back from an overnight of backpacking with my dad up in NH. we climbed mt. madison, part of the presidential range, a few peaks over from the famous (to new englanders?) mt. washington. it's a strange mountain range - it's extremely popular, part of the appalacian trail, and seems to draw a good deal of inexperienced folks (myself somewhat included, but i came across families with young kids on their way up today), yet before you get above the tree line you come across signs stating something to the effect of: 'you are about to enter an area that has the worst weather in america. many people have died of exposure in the zone, even in the summer. if the weather looks bad turn back now.' i'm not sure if 'worst weather in the us' or mt. washington's claim to have the 'worst weather in the world' are legit, but the warning certainly is. now i am exhausted, and hopefully will be able to stay up for the celts game tonight (if you give a toast in the near future, throw them in for pauri's sake).

last sunday i went to the WBCN river rave - a local radio show's annual music fest - with dan (who y'all probably met, guitar in red morning) and taylor (drums in red morning). a bunch of the early bands were really shitty (remember filter? remember everlast?! motherfuckers had nothing to play but their lame-ass hits from the 90s) so we spent the early hours of the afternoon tailgating and getting trashed. zaza responded to my drunk text later on in the evening and was like 'you were drunk at 2:30? i'm jealous!.' sobered up in the pit during pennywise, and was hung over by the time stone temple pilots hit the stage (STP is apparently back together? they put on a good show). i think we all basically agreed that the day was a lot more fun than we'd thought it'd be.

other than that, been lookin' to buy a new guitar, been rehearsing a bit with Red Morning (yeah, we get capitalized. also, auditioning a new singer tuesday.), been debating whether to work for the writers' express again this summer (i'd be a coach, so much easier than being a counselor), and been apply my ADD mind to the job search. how the fuck are y'all? post motherfuckers, don't just leave this shit to your boys in boston.

plr, etc
pkc

Australia pulls its troops from Iraq, why can't we?

This is awesome

It may tell have you install a newer version of Flash, but it's worth it.

1) I don't send links to videos that are gross enough that I can't look at them.

2) This is glorious: Geek Gang Signs

this is the shit you find yourself watching if you follow pauri's links

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdt8nDOY9fk&feature=related

This is gloriously bad/funny.

Also, Facebook is going open source. Holla

i miss you all

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XX5WEgqw6pM

ok, now i know how to put posts on this thing. if yall wanna relive yall show, hit it up

while you lucky bastards got to watch the show live, i had to watch on lame ass cnn that cut out like 3 min in. so glad i transferred to miss this!!

shit that went down

as y'all may be aware, i have not finished my last college paper which was technically due today. the excuse i've given all of you, and my prof, is that i ended up devoting most of my energy today to reading, thinking, and writing about the shit that went down on fountain last night. anyway, the special edition of the argus is online and the only wespeak i've ever written is posted, proving that my excuse for not finishing my work is not complete bullshit.

sometimes shit just strikes a nerve, you know? something about this incident just touches on so many of my political/personal beliefs.

it may slightly sour our senior week, but i think it's important that we get informed about this and think about it and, if possible, act.

http://wesleyanargus.com/

plr,
pkc

speaking of star wars...

apparently big-time race theorist howard winant has an article entitled 'the dark side of the force.'

fuck. yes.


http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/winant/Winant-Darkside_final.html

yes.

points

i got 56 of em left, though i'll probably spend some on dinner. if y'all want anything, let me know.

someone on the internet is in love w/ bushy, me, and bauer, oh, and probs adam black

from teh ACB:

OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU TROLL. I ACTUALLY REALLY REALLY LOVE YOU. I WOULD FUCKING FEED YOU WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU LIKED IF YOU WOULD COME OVER HERE AND ENTERTAIN ME AND FUCK ME.


this is in response to a post bushyhead made about Smaug, but the person seems to think there is just one troll afoot. so, the rest of y'alls, join our DRAGON meme and soon anonymous internet people will want to feed and fuck you too. i dare you to come up with something better than that.

godDAMNIT apparently there are pandas that ain't dying

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2008/05/13/chinas_panda_preserves_reported_safe/

Also

Don't forget these types of dragons!


Also, regarding your dragon meme: it may be funny for a little while, but it could get dull pretty quickly. Make sure it doesn't drag on.

My sister sent this to me, it was quite wonderful.

DRAGON

To give you all a little bit of inspiration (except for Patrick, who definitely doesn't need any more at this point, I present a selection of dragons for your viewing pleasure.

A Black Dragon. This is not a racism thing, he is just blackish/purplish. They are Chaotic Evil and not the most intelligent of the Chromatic (evil) dragons, but quite formidable. So maybe it is a little bit racist. They do not breathe fire, but rather spit huge gouts of acid.

Generally they live in marshy areas. This one is sitting on a rock. WTF?







This here's a Brass Dragon. It's one of the Metallic varieties, which are all Good-aligned. Brass Dragons in particular are Chaotic Good, and some of the least skilled in combat. Still, they are dragons and if pressured will put a sever hurt on you. Seriously. They love chatting with both friends and strangers for hours on end. They are just so good-natured! They can breathe a long line of fire, or a cone-shaped burst of gas that puts you to sleep.

If I was a Dragon, I would probably like to be a Brass Dragon. Yay!








This Dragon comes from China. I hope that fire isn't hurting him. I guess Chinese Dragons can't fly, since they don't have wings, but I've been wrong before. Perhaps they just swim through air like a flying snake.

Are there also Dragons in Japan? Or Mongolia? Don't ask me!





A Komodo Dragon is not a Dragon.




















Next!

This is actually a watercolor painting by William Blake called the Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun. From a very young age, Blake claimed to have visions sent by God that influenced his art. Goodness! Personally I think he was just a little loony, because that doesn't look very much like a dragon to me! More like a man with wings and horns and a tail and a butt and legs coming from his butt.












"Whatever," Will!


Well, that's all I have time for now. I hope you enjoyed it, because I spent a lot of time on it when I should have been doing important schoolwork.

IMPORTANT UPDATE!!!

Eddie Bauer is trying to start a dragon meme on the ACB?! Have you been reading the ACB? you should be, it's finals week. anyways, what started as a racist question (why do asians always study at sci li, or something to that effect) turned into people mocking that post, turned into people mocking it more (why do asians always study at SCI-FI? are they just smarter than the rest of us IN SPACE?) turned into eddie randomly inserting the word DRAGON into these sentences, turned into this, a post mocking all the mixed connections posts on the ACB:

http://wesleyan-acb.livejournal.com/5484.html?thread=22570604#t22570604

i am in love with EBB right now. everyone should post on the ACB, let's get this shit started. trolling teh ACBz = senior bonding (bondage?).

1. There is no proof that Pauri committed a hate-crime.
2. Hate speech is not condoned on this blog...but freedom of expression is, so the previous posts won't be removed, in spite of the befouling of our beautiful blog.

THE LYRICS TO THE MILEY CYRUS SONG CHANGED TO REFLECT HOW I FEEL ABOUT PAURI'S HATE CRIME

I've got my sights set on Pauri
And I can't be blamed
I have a vicious pet panda
That can never be tamed
He will maul your face in
For your hateful crime
Now I can't wait
To see you in his panda den

I've got a way of knowing
That your prejudices aren't right
I feel that this vicious panda
Will end your short life
Cause I feel this deep connection
With this savage panda
And he can't wait
To see you in his panda den

The last time he freaked out
I just kept looking down
I st-st-stuttered
"Wow, pandas are vicious, no doubt"
Felt like I couldn't breath
He was goring with glee
And now he just said
"Just wait til you see what I do to Pauri"
The next time we hang out
He will maul Pauri's face
My heart, it can't rest til then
I, I can't wait, to see you in his panda den

I got this crazy feeling, deep inside
That when I see Pauri next
It will be for the last time
I'm not a mind reader
But I'm reading the signs
That my pet panda can't wait
To see you in his panda den

The last time he freaked out
I just kept looking down
I st-st-stuttered
"Wow, pandas are vicious, no doubt"
Felt like I couldn't breath
He was goring with glee
And now he just said
"Just wait til you see what I do to Pauri"
The next time we hang out
He will maul Pauri's face
My heart, it can't rest til then
I, I can't wait, to see you in his panda den

This just in

PAURI IS A HOMO AND PANDA-PHOBE

edit: by that I mean Pauri is a homophobe and pandaphobe.

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ONCE AGAIN PAURI DEFACED THE HILARIOUS PANDA WEB COMIC PRINT OUT. I HAD ERASED THE WORD "GAY" THAT PAURI, BY VIRTUE OF HIS HOMOPHOBIA, SCRAWLED ON THE PICTURE. OH YES PAURI LIE ABOUT IT WITH YOUR SHIT-EATING GRIN. I KNOW IT WAS YOU. NO ONE ELSE WOULD STOOP TO THIS LEVEL. I LET YOU BORROW MY EXTERNAL HARD-DRIVE AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME?

THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME?

AND SPEAKING OF POETRY

Here are the lyrics to the aforeposted Miley Cyrus song:

Quick note: "I've got my sights set on you and I'm ready to aim." Isn't the very definition of aiming to set one's sights on something? For shame, little nymphet! (Nabokov's term, not mine...though if it were mine I would add -te to the end. Wikipedia says POPULARIZED by Nabokov. My bad.)

I've got my sight set on you
And I'm ready to aim
I have a heart that will
Never be tamed

I knew you were somethin' special
When you spoke my name
Now I can't wait
To see you again

I've got a way of knowin'
When somethin' is right
I feel like I must have known you
In another life

'Cause I felt this deep connection
When you looked in my eyes
Now I can't wait
To see you again

CHORUS:
The last time I freaked out
I just kept lookin' down
I st-st-stuttered when
You asked me what I'm thinkin' 'bout
felt like I couldn't breathe
You asked what's wrong with me
My best friend leslie said
"Oh, she's just bein' Miley"
And next time we hang out
I will redeem myself
My heart, can't rest till then
Whoa, whoa, I
I can't wait
To see you again

I got this crazy feelin'
Deep inside
when You called and ask to see me
Tomorrow night

I'm not a mind reader
But I'm readin' the signs
that you can't wait
To see me again

Chorus

I've got my sight set on you
And I'm ready to aim

Chorus

Whoa, whoa, I
I can't wait
To see you again 

Pictures of Lord Byron

DID YOU KNOW THAT: when he attended Cambridge he owned a pet bear?
DID YOU KNOW THAT: I have committed certain snippets of Byron to memory? Ask me to recite them for an enjoyable few minutes!

Finals the next day = blog posts

From Wesleying (originally from icanhascheezburger)

Anti-Piracy ad from McLovin:

Be careful what facebook apps you install.

Kerry Rips MSNBC on Wright

party

i'd be down to throw a party on sat - bauer says the same. apparently that night is also maria's b-day party? and i got a tournament on saturday, so throw culture folk (such as nfasciststrand@wesleyan.edu) might have a party that night (i actually don't know this). but yeah, let's drink some whiskey.

pkc

Obama has superdelegates lined up.

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