It’s strange, the way just a mention of a certain name, even ten years after the last time you saw each other, can bring back memories; or rather, transport you to an alternate reality, just for a crazy moment.
Found the f-book page of a friend, a former friend. Saw photos of the past few years, […]
I like to eat. I have a bad habit of indulging in a slightly tastier dinner with a couple more little side-bites of somethings during times of low-level ongoing stress, particularly when I need to do some serious, down-to-business procrastinating, like right now for example, in school.
It’s not a good thing, stress-eating, and what makes […]
An article on remystifying the orgasm in response to a book:
It’s not that the sexual revelations and revolutions of the recent past have not brought considerable good. It’s great that men know more about women’s bodies than they did, great they no longer imagine, like the cad in Milan Kundera’s 1972 novel The Joke, that […]
In Foundation, Issac Asimov wrote about a planet at the edge of the galaxy devoted to storing the entire contents of human knowledge in a great Encyclopedia Galactica, so that when the galactic empire fell the ensuing eternity of the Dark Ages wouldn’t be quite as dark and eternal.
Orson Scott Card’s elaborations* on the […]
Let’s verb!
Blogging is writing an entry in your weblog. What term describes reading your daily blogs?
Thus far I’ve got:
• rogging
• bleading
Dunno about that second one.
Ball-sports day; played on the sensei volleyball team against the winning class of the student tournament. We lost. I’m sure I cost us a few points, having a) forgotten my contacts and b) no idea where the ‘out’ and other important lines were on a court full of incomprehensible scribblings.
Being yelled at and not […]
I failed to mention one thing that seriously did bother me about the film, and that was the absolutely shitty treatment of all women involved. The women, Ennis and Jack’s wives, helped pay of the price of their husbands’ officially denied relationship, as unsuspecting straight women married to undercover gay men.
As this NYT editorial […]
I guess I’ll put in my 2 cents on Brokeback Mountain, since it’s like a blogworld membership affirmation or something.
It was a beautiful film, the kind that leaves a feeling with you after you watch it, a taste you can’t shake for a bit.
It was a beautiful film visually as well, the breathtaking scenery of […]
Signed the papers yesterday, I now have half a year left to learn to love Japan.
Which, in the end, is pretty much why I’m leaving; I cherish parts of my life, I value my independent lifestyle, I enjoy having my own apartment, I love the people who have become dear to me, I’ll miss the […]
A post over at O’s made me think about a comment I made yesterday to my Japanese co-teacher. In our English Reading class we read and filled in a worksheet I made about the history of Thanksgiving. After the Mayflower and the Pilgrims and three days of feasting with their Injun friends and the happy […]