January 2012
17 posts
“I wish I knew Moon-Speak.”
– Gabe watching me struggle over Arabic
Growth
Today I realized something about myself that I never before acknowledged. I have an extreme urge to confront others, be it for something stupid, important, whatever.
I love it. I embrace it. I see only good things to come. (Also, my doctor told me a couple of weeks ago I grew half an inch!)
(Actually, I would like to mold my natural inclination into a more frank, impassionate, “standing...
Wit
I wish i was witty, wit turns crabby people into appreciable presences.
In other (old) news, Peter Dinklage lives up ridiculously well to my Game of Thrones expectations.
foreforeforeforeforeforefore
I think for the next week/month/year/decade or so, I am going to type one line of “foreforeforeforefore…” a day. This rather stupid assertion gets me thinking, why do I feel compelled to announce my stupid ideas? My followers are scant, my dialogue with them smaller, as far as I know, no one actually reads any of my posts (sending hearts doesn’t require much effort). Why...
Nonsense #52
I really wish I didn’t keep my mini-notebook next to my one-week-old banana in my backpack. My words get to pollute the world in digital wunderbarness while my notebook simmers in post-post-ripe banana smell.
I feel the writing urge.
For our protagonists we have two coconuts - Bill and Escuthion. Bill was a cheery sort of coconut. He beamed bright with his coconut smile, brim to brim....
Beginnings of a Revival
Boot boot boot. Boot boot boot. Boot. Boot.
Dead Presidents: 99 Years of Nixon →
deadpresidents:
Happy Birthday to Richard Milhous Nixon! It seems that everybody has an opinion on Richard Nixon. There are certainly a lot of reasons to dislike Nixon, but he also possessed some extraordinary talents. At times, it is difficult to defend Nixon because he was forced to resign the Presidency in…
Dead Presidents: Richard Nixon and Ronald McDonald →
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Richard Nixon was so awkward and unusual that, sometimes, it’s hard not to feel some sympathy for him.
I previously shared a story about Richard Nixon’s road trip on Election Day in 1960 when he took a random drive to Tijuana while millions of Americans were deciding whether to send him or…
Dead Presidents: "What have I done?" →
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The 37th President of the United States was hysterical. Crumpled in a leather chair in the Lincoln Sitting Room, his favorite of the 132-rooms at his disposal in the White House, Richard Milhous Nixon called for his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. Nixon was drinking, Nixon was exhausted,…
“Listen kid, stick to snapping, you’ll never get to whistling.”
– Inner Conscience
December 2011
52 posts
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Going Back to Roots
The new year rekindled my love for pygmy elephants. There’s something so majestic and charming about shrinking something gigantic.
Yes, I really love pygmy elephants.
Remember Note #1203809128
-Tristan translated the French parts of Gwen Stefani’s Luxurious for you.
I Have Been Thinking
On many things. I suppose things is an apt term, my thoughts scattered from making potato soup to the objectification of women. I thought about the point of government and the sky’s immensity once its obstructions disappear. I thought about Cory Booker and Erwin Rommel and wondered what drives great men. I thought about paying for my tuition and hoping my card didn’t bounce...
Eek!
Part of me wants to be lovey dovey and write some lovey dovey words and sing serenade-esque songs and recite really smooth poetry and buy flowers and burn incense.
Then the majority of me goes, “Eek!”
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I want to comfort, to understand your pains and grief, but I won’t. I will sit here and dwell on them, like the wallflower that I am.
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Foundations of Good Stories
Wolves and foxes and mountain men!
And my, friends I’ve, returned to wish you all the best.
Dead Presidents: Learning, Understanding, and... →
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Anonymous asked: why the hell would you waste your time reading the koran if you are not religious and especially if you’re not an arab?
Wow. I’m not sure how to even start with this one. Actually, that’s not true; I know exactly where to begin.
First of all, not all Arabs are Muslim (and not…
Written word opens mouths that stay shut in public.
Winter Break Ideas
-Erwin Rommel. Read about him, Attacks, The Rommel Papers, Knight’s Cross.
-Knitting. Knit the miniscarf.
-Learn more Jose Gonzalez & Corinne Bailey Rae on guitar.
-Taiko practice?
-Read the EMT book / Arabic review
-Go on www.sciencedaily.com once a week
-Eat Ralph’s
-Exercise three times a week
-Construction assignments
-Catnap on couch
-GAME OF THRONES
-Draw/Sketch....
“God, I just wish I was more motivated. You know?”
– Girl sitting next to me at the bar with her friend at happy hour. (via travels-with-charley)
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Damn the Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead
Night spent listening to Voxtrot — success. Night spent studying for Astronomy final — yeah…
incognitoinseason asked: Greetings!!!! (: Just wanted to drop a line, how've you been?
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Ablublublublublublu
Eek! Dancing mice! To the fallout shelter!
Ablublublublublublu.
For Later
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Glossary/Yiddish_Words/yiddish_words.html
I’m going to learn Yiddish.
“Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaeda leaders who’ve been taken...”
– President Obama, at a White House press briefing on Friday, after a reporter asked what his reaction was to Republican candidates who have accused the President of appeasement in his foreign policy
This is exactly how I want my President to start pushing back. I like the new President Obama who is...
“Live, live”, said the boy. ”Live”
Rest in peace my friend.