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March 2003
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In other news
03.06.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on In other newsThe Road Runner meets your Uncle Murray that has the tailor shop. Priceless collection of old UA cartoons. I used to bike through MIT on my way to class across the river, and I can verify that, yes, this is the coolest guy at MIT.
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Read a goddamn book!
03.04.03 | Permalink | 4 CommentsNick Kristof has an excellent column today over at the New York Times. Evangelical Christians are the dominant religious group in the US, and non-evangelicals had best bone up. Writes Kristof: But liberal critiques [of evangelical Christianity] sometimes seem not just filled with outrage at evangelical-backed policies, which is fair, but also to have a […]
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Lessons from the men’s room at The Earl
03.02.03 | Permalink | 7 CommentsGrupo Fantasma is delightful. Their CD does not do them justice. (Please, fire your producer.) Intriguing band name: Defriender. Shitty, shitty band names: Amerikunt, Mindblowatory. Oddly unsettling band name that inspired me to write a short poem: The Betty Spackle. I don’t want to hear about you spackling Betty I don’t want to hear about […]
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Is the war in Iraq inevitable?
03.01.03 | Permalink | 6 CommentsSlovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek provides his usual piercing analysis of the global agora in Mapping Ideology (Mapping) and Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? At root in both books is the nature and functioning of ideology. He breaks ideology down into three flavors. 1. Ideology-in-itself. In short, screed. Or for you Plato fans, eidos politicized. This flavor […]
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Happy Birthday to Me!
03.01.03 | Permalink | 3 CommentsThis year for my birthday I give myself one Maniacal Clown of Death. He’s really cute. And he shoots acid out his eyes. Twenty-nine is an odd year. Everything is for keeps now. Thirty will just be a redundant reminder. How does that one sneak up on people?
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