January 2012
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“In the shape of this night, in the still fall of snow, Father
In all that is...”
– “At the New Year” by Kenneth Patchen
December 2011
61 posts
I feel like this particular blog has outlived its usefulness in some ways, and the end of 2011 feels like a fitting time to move on.
I stopped doing the LiveJournal thing at around the same time I started dating Mon, feeling like the things I wanted to write about were suddenly too private and secret. Besides, I was starting to feel a little bit like this classic XKCD comic.
But it turns out...
Intellectually, I know nothing’s going to be posted on ROSI on Christmas or Boxing Day, but I keep logging in anyway. I want my marks.
Fuck this IPR shit, SERIOUSLY.
So you want to be entertained
I made a mixtape for deli.sub that is doubling as a kind of motivational New Year’s mix for me.
If anyone is interested, the link is here. The extremely original theme is “songs that I love that are mostly upbeat”. And I think only one of them was released in the last year, so if you are looking for cutting-edge cool… I am not sure why you are even reading this blog at...
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2,380,000 Google results
In the interesting of making the world a better place in 2012, I propose a boycott on the phrase “disingenuous at best.”
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I kind of wish that everyone just instinctively...
And while looking up these Christmas carols, I also came upon something a friend said that struck me enough to write it in the margins of my agenda. (And guys, I never used my agenda.) ”Believing in religion is like thinking life is a TA Interview.”
So, I went to mass today. Guys, what the FUCK is up with the new edition of the missal? And the new responses? ”I have sinned...
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Kirk inspired me to look up our old philosophical Christmas Carols. (We actually wrote out the lyrics to at least two of them, but I can’t find them now.)
Jingle Bell Locke
Lo, How A Rousseau E’er Blooming
“Marx!” The Herald Engels Sings
The First Hegel
Kant-a Claus is Coming to Town
I’ll Be Hume for Christmas
O Little Town of Bettelheim
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what is this soft vinyl cafe shit
Sisyphus, etc.
TW: depression
I wanted a picture of this moment: the moment where I realized that living off of Coca-Cola and all-nighters is no longer a tenable situation, the moment where I realized just how far I’ve overstepped the boundaries of my ability to keep my shit together, the moment where I’ve realized how bad I let things get.
But it is dark in here and figuring out the lighting...
“Until I was 30, I dated only boys. I’ll tell you why: Men scared the sh*t out of...”
– —Mindy Kaling. (via thatkindofwoman)
This is so much less what I want from a relationship, and so much more what I want from myself. I would like to feel entrenched.
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I went bowling last night instead of working, and...
My job is so fucking depressing sometimes. I was complaining yesterday about being assigned what felt like twenty car accident cases. I WISH I’d gotten car accident cases today, god damn.
In other news, the racial dynamics of the legal system are probably exactly what you’d expect, i.e. shitty.
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Christmas Plans
Skins
The L Word
America’s Next Top Model: All Stars Edition
“What happens if you’re long-term held in captivity, as in a political prisoner,...”
– Derrick Jensen (via cultureofresistance)
(via guerrillamamamedicine)
all of this was lovely, but this bit right here really struck something with me. it’s resonating right in bits and pieces of my own personal damage.
(via champagnecandy)
I love this, and I have always really loved Michel...
“There’s one other aspect to the adulation of Hitchens that’s quite revealing....”
– Greenwald (and, the more interesting thinker, Bady) is spot on about this. (via michelledean)
“Up until my late 20s, I thought of pregnancy the same way I thought of any STD,...”
– Michelle Tea in Part 2 of her getting pregnant series.
This is exactly how I feel now!
(via fuckyeahfemmes)
My go-to cringe example of is more “The Midwich Cuckoos” than Alien, but co-signed!!
(I love Michelle Tea. So much. And it’s nice to know that things can change, and that...
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Je veux te voir (dans un film pornographique)
So, I guess this is the point in the evening where I’m morosely listening to Tegan and Sara classix on repeat. (What do I have to do to see myself in a better mood?/What do you need to do to get yourself in a better mood?) I’d make a joke here about “Nineteen” but it’s not all that funny right now.
I’m already past the “fuck this, I’m just going to...
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I was going to do that thing where you take a Bible (a Tanakh in this case) and let it fall open, and whatever verse you point at is supposed to give you guidance in your situation. I am waiting for a phone call, and this is how badly I need a distraction right now.
The verse that I turned up is from Ezekiel:
In the eleventh year, on the seventh day of the first month, the word of the Lord came...
This doesn't belong here
I signed into MSN tonight for the first time in over a year. My first impulse when things go wrong is to go back to the beginning and try to trace everything back to now.
It’s a ghost town now. One person was away, and everyone else was offline. Their screen names are inside jokes from years ago, references to people and places they no longer care about. Old nicknames.
I waited. I tried...
“I said to myself, “Look, I have increased in wisdom more than anyone who has...”
– The Book of Ecclesiastes
I am having a bad day. I have a Politics exam at 9AM and I’m reading the Old Testament. I haven’t believed in God since I was 14.
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“Never look back
Walk talk
Act fine”
– Relevant words of advice from Ziggy Stardust
I am loving how many people from Battlestar are on the first season of The L Word.
I also love that Brian Krakow grew up to be a lesbian-identified male.
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achigurh:
Finals.
How is it possible that I haven’t done laundry in so long that I don’t even have a single pair of clean underwear? I have a lot of fucking underwear, I didn’t think running out of clean pairs was possible.
Suboptimal.
I suppose commando it is. Lest you think that that’s “sexy”, think for a second that there’s a reason people put a cotton barrier between their gentle bits...
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Third year blues
Grades are starting to come in.
The term paper that I was the most personally invested in than anything else this year (and also happens to be the paper I spent the longest time writing and planning and researching, funny how that works out) got the lowest grade I’ve ever gotten on an essay.
The term paper I dashed off the night before at 3AM got a 90%.
11:27 AM? Time for a fucking...
I’m usually not the kind of person who bitches about site changes (exception: when the sole purpose of the changes seems to be to make the site less accessible), but Facebook Timeline is just the motivation I need to peace the fuck out from that hellhole of regrets for good.
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"Decorum, delegates!" is going to be my band name
I just watched the Parks and Rec episode where they do a mock UN, and all hell breaks loose. I just want to go on record as saying that while meant to be funny, it is actually an extremely accurate depiction of how these things work.
I did mock UNs all through high school. In the 2007 meeting, I was randomly assigned the role of Colin Powell.
As a reminder, I looked like this (second from the...
That was a good drum break: devia: The... →
devia:
devia:
The Contemporary Classical Composer’s Bullshit Generator
thequizmaster:
LMAO this is hilarious
As a primarily pseudo-semantic artist, I aim to recreate the source within instrumental-intricacies, and bring forth a single narrative that really seeks the most…
It says “Chau Kirk Sartre.” Don’t judge me.
People are like dice, blah blah blah, some shit like that.
Let’s...
“Editor Cady Lang caught up with Mason at 7 a.m. one morning in the shadow of...”
–
Learning More About TIME’s Protester Cover Girl, Richard Horgan
First of all, of course an Occupy protestor would be the TIME cover image, especially for a cover that name checks the Arab Spring (a movement that has been tirelessly used as the “inspiration” for Western...
That was a good drum break: devia: The... →
thequizmaster:
devia:
The Contemporary Classical Composer’s Bullshit Generator
thequizmaster:
LMAO this is hilarious
As a primarily pseudo-semantic artist, I aim to recreate the source within instrumental-intricacies, and bring forth a single narrative that really seeks the most post-acoustic…
I can tell you typed it at 5am because you agreed with me :)
Love you.
I just want this...
“Dude, Wal-Mart always tears apart the illest songs. No ‘language’? Yeah. Sure....”
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My buddy, Stephen, goes off on Wal-Mart’s “family friendly” music department. Also, a mnemonic for the slow songs played at my Senior Prom (“Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing” – Aerosmith; “This I Swear” – Nick Lachay; “You’re Still The One” – Shania Twain; “God Bless the Broken Road” – Rascal Flatts;...
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I just had a FREAKOUT because I suddenly forgot my last.fm password, and because I signed up in 2005, I didn’t have an email address associated with my account (shit was super weird back those days, huh?) and couldn’t remember whether or not I actually used my correct birthday, so I had no password reset options.
BUT it turns out I was still logged on through one of my accounts, and...
“A chastened d’Artagnan-look-alike rose on the Liberal benches and attempted to...”
– Justin Trudeau’s ‘shiddle-diddle’ moment reminds us why Question Period is worth watching, John Ivison, National Post
I hate The Post, but this sentence is the best thing.
devia:
The Contemporary Classical Composer’s Bullshit Generator
thequizmaster:
LMAO this is hilarious
As a primarily pseudo-semantic artist, I aim to recreate the source within instrumental-intricacies, and bring forth a single narrative that really seeks the most post-acoustic issues. All composers should superimpose a variety of developments, and (if this morphs spatial works),...
When an adult took standardized tests forced on... →
pompadoursandpincurls:
“I can’t escape the conclusion that decisions about the [state test] in particular and standardized tests in general are being made by individuals who lack perspective and aren’t really accountable.”
I got 7/7 right on the reading test but DAMN, that shit is a lot harder than I remember. And I graduated college, too. And they’re giving these complicated/intentionally...
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So, things have been kind of shit lately, I don’t know if it’s been like, OBVIOUS, or anything. Also, I just realized Belle & Sebastian’s “If She Wants Me” is missing from my iTunes library, so something has gone really wrong somewhere down the line. It’s time for something to change.
In the spirit of self-improvement, I have decided it’s time to...
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I kind of want to put Santa hats on my Mai ‘68 icon before I ditch it (it should have been changed months ago, but I’m laaazyyyy). But I can’t decide whether it would be in hilarious poor taste, or just awkward and a little bit offensive.
so much effin' fun!!?!: idg why my friends are so... →
nowaitninjas:
idg why my friends are so exasperated that the university of toronto has banned selling bottled water
okay our university has 147 buildings and is the size of a small city. do u kno how much natural resources we are already using up!!! i really don’t think it would kill you to bring a reusable…
Sorry, Em, gotta disagree with you entirely on this one.
I am exasperated...
Discovered the “phiLOLZophy” Tumblr, and read, like, half of it on public transit today. I was left with a warm, glowing feeling inside that can only be described as “complete and total affirmation that switching out of my philosophy major in first year was the best decision of my life”.
(I have what I feel is an entirely justifiable prejudice against English majors and...
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Golden Rule failure
Lisa: I liked her for ages, and now she's at our school. I didn't think I'd ever see her again, you know?
Friend: You should just go for it.
Lisa: No, I think she's straight. She has a boyfriend.
Friend: ...SO DO YOU!
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Submitted my first invoice for a freelance contract. Adulthood achievement unlocked?
(Or it would be if I wasn’t sitting here picking the freeze-dried marshmallows out of my Lucky Charms.)
champagnecandy:
sitting in bed with last night’s makeup still on and a pounding fucking hangover is making me consider creative protest about this Plan B bullshit.
like a million people with smeared makeup and sex hair and clothes obviously thrown back on wrinkled from the bedroom floor and maybe last night’s underwear in their back pocket, descending on the Health & Human Services offices...
“I bought some ice tongs, which
made me surprisingly happy, and for which I
had...”
– James Tate, Of Whom Am I Afraid?
The level of my unhappiness is probably best measured by my psychological distance from these lines.
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“Because only when you fuck is everything that you dislike in life and everything...”
– Philip Roth, The Dying Animal (via thefuckwouldisaywhatfor)
This sentiment was more concisely rendered by Peaches, in her seminal work “Fuck The Pain Away”.
Also (and I don’t think I’ve ever said this before): GPOY
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The years to come seemed waste of breath/A waste...
I will never take a poetry class (or an English class probably) because I find few things more frustrating than listening to other people’s interpretations of poems, especially because I am the ultimate arbiter of meaning, and everyone else is so obviously wrong.