December 2008
13 posts
Resolve those resolutions. →
Whenever this time of year rolls around, the void space of too much eating, drinking and sleeping in-between Christmas and New Years, people began to rant and drunkedly decide upon New Years Resolutions. Can you even remember your resolutions from last year? I can’t help but laugh at mine. I wanted to lose 26 pounds and move to Rochester. Well, half of those came true. This year, I am...
Best Christmas Moments [Ever]! →
check the ATHF ones. Also, happy christmas to all! humanity shall prosper if you forget that this holiday has become about consumerism and capitalism. amen and hallejuah. Call your dad.
xmas cheer
Christmas 2008 is less than a week away, with the New Year not long to follow. Hopefully your shopping is done, along with your resolution thinking. The Pope has been thinking a lot too. Although I am reluctant to ever bring up Benedict XVI, because of the way that he talks about the worlds youth, and his shady past as a Nazi Youth (yes, I know that membership in the ranks was mandatory and...
Ho Ho Ho
First, proof that you control the internet, a.k.a. the (free) press of tomorrow. In case you haven’t heard, all [American] newspapers are in serious trouble, layoffs are starting to hit the newsrooms as well [TG I decided not to major in Journalism?]. But blogs like these, and the wonderwheel of YouTube prove that journalism still exists, it is just metamorphosing.
I.E., the 9/11...
something borrowed
La Francophone dans tous ses états
Du bon usage de la francophonie
par Maryse Condé
Réfléchissant à ce concept de francophonie dans le domaine culturel, je me suis aperçue qu’il y avait différentes manières, toutes assez contradictoires, de le concevoir. Aussi, je voudrais les exposer rapidement, et surtout faire connaître celle qu’en fin de compte, au terme de longs tâtonnements, j’ai retenue.
Il...
The only vote that matters. →
Chime in to the pitchfork. My top picks this year? Crystal Castles T.I. “Put On” (Young Jeezy ft. Kanye West) Kings of Leon and of course, Water Curses was just foundational, definitive Animal Collective. In other music news, for some reason, Lil’ Wayne just can’t manage to rear his tattooed head in Rochester. He’s cancelled two shows on us this fall. Or maybe he just...
So, with a job that fits into my major and a A-/B+ ON MY RESEARCH PAPER!!!!, it seems that this semester was not an absolute academic slump after all. Although I am now completely turned off from group projects, please take a gander into my research! You do not know how validating it is to feel premiere, as if you yourself are the creator of an original, creative, theoretical thought. When Madden...