January 2012
December 2011
“Eight percent of college men have either attempted or successfully raped. Thirty...”
– Margo Maine, Ph.D. (Body Wars)
There was a time that, as a person of the male persuasion, seeing this quote made me really mad. It made me mad that women would assume that I was a rapist; it made me mad that rape was becoming ‘my problem’; it made me mad because, frankly, I didn’t think it was...
One of the classes that I had last semester is using the same textbook for a different class this semester.
I already sold back the book.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck me.
And I already read basically the whole text book and most of the short stories in it. So what…am I going to have to reread them all?
This is just retarded. If I’m taking a higher level class I at least want to learn...
“You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.”
– Tina Fey (via adam-scotts)
2012: year in {future} books
I will finish off my bookshelf:
Trash by Dorothy Allison
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Remains of the Day by Kuzuo Ishiguro
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Slave by LeRoi Jones
The Shining by Stephen King
It by Stephen King
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
Selected Stories by Ring Lardner
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
I will reread...
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Roger Ebert: I'll tell you why movie revenue is... →
1. Obviously, the absence of a must-see mass-market movie. […]
2. Ticket prices are too high. […]
3. The theater experience. […]
4. Refreshment prices. […]
5. Competition from other forms of delivery. […]
6. Lack of choice. Box-office tracking shows that the bright spot in 2011 was the performance of indie, foreign or documentary films [this has arguably been the case since 1989 with...
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Things I have lost in the past three days
My perfume
My phone charger
My backup phone charger
My Netflix DVD
Also, my computer charger broke so I had to borrow my roommate’s. She lost her Kindle so I was helping her look for it and when I came into the living room Casey Novak the Kitten/Shedevil had chewed through HER charger.
So I just went to Best Buy and dropped $100 in new...
“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Nothing is as perfect as you can...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via atomos)
