Monthly Archives: September 2007

ex-squeeeeeze me!

In response to this, this:

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It’s almost like a songfic*

Ahhhhhh.. I want to see this: The Internationl Herald Tribune’s review of Across the Universe: Call it a jukebox musical, or a rock opera, or a long-playing music video. All those labels fit – and don’t. Taymor’s essentially unclassifiable film … Continue reading

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girls, girls, girls

Another reminder of the media’s perpetual and continual lies about the female body – America Ferrera Gets Glamourized: Read the linked article to guanabee.com tho some very funny parsing of the Glamour interview.

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sigh

Per Raul’s request I’ve tried to avoid blogging about college football altogether because of the likelyhood that i might jinx you-know-which-team. But it’s been difficult to not think of things to say in regards to the sport in the last … Continue reading

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same same but different

Why is it that everytime a Mat Salleh expresses desire to travel overseas, particularly so if they’re the ones who’ve never been abroad and are way past their young and carefree years, they are most likely to say Australia?

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Tetris Grand Master at work

This was real popular on the Digg site. Watching this guy play tetris gave me a headache. I tried to visualize how he might play it but it hurt my head more than when I tried to learn writing left-handed. … Continue reading

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maybe it’ll stay, maybe it’ll go

When I first encountered Twitter I thought why would I be compelled to tell the whole world what I’m doing at the moment, any moment. (obviously many others in the world may want to but let us just focus on … Continue reading

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It was not a dark and stormy night

Madeleine L’Engle, author, has passed away. I didn’t read A Wrinkle In Time until I was 23, and this was after I’d read Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series. At that point I’d experienced a saturation of fantasy and science … Continue reading

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russian mayor = awesomeness

One Alexander Kuzmin, mayor of Megion, Russia tells his employees that they can no longer say “I don’t know” to the people they serve. The honorable mayor has also banned several other government servant favourite phrases such as “It’s not … Continue reading

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i waaaaaant

From thinkgeek.com: “This shirt is full of write-on, wash-off goodness. Tell everyone you’re in their noun verbing their noun! Bored with what you wrote this morning? Throw the shirt in the wash and think up a new saying. It’s like … Continue reading

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never forget..?

SDSU students gets asked a simple question – what year did 9/11 happen. Makes you want to stab your eyes out.

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best ipods evah?

Check out Apple’s wesbite. And Stevey has aged since I last saw him: Don’t know Steve Jobs? You’re not alone. p.s. – I never understood Video iPod. I understand even less why one would want video capability for the iPod … Continue reading

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can i just say

Justine Henin’s backhand gives me serious lady wood? Current match against Ms. Serena – 5/3 in the first. Henin leads. 9:07pm UPDATE: 5/6 to Serena. I love this game! 10:10pm UPDATE: But then like Serena loses her head and loses … Continue reading

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Mario Danelo and Coach Hep remembered

The USC family and the football team lost Mario Danelo earlier this year. This past weekend, in the first game of the season, USC played the ‘missing man’ formation as a tribute to Mario (via IrishTrojan): IU football coach Terry … Continue reading

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