I'm reading The Master and Margarita, which is quite fun, and which mentions the Solovki Islands, which instantly endeared it to me. However, one incident in the story moves me to both remember an episode …
Overheard on BART on the way to SF Pride: A man, with the woman he's dating: "We share a Salon.com subscription. It's good." Also, the same man detailed how his girlfriend has "good car karma" …
Analogies I discovered yesterday: I have, for no good reason, a stuffy nose and occasional sneezing. Once in a while the nose-blowing gets kind of yucky, like scooping skeins of scum out of the fish …
My Independence Day Story: I woke up earlier than I had to, as per usual on days when I anticipate something big. I listened to some DDT while getting ready, which was easier since I'd …
As of yesterday afternoon, I'm safely arrived. On the Fourth of July I got to experience lots of security trauma, since I got picked for a random second search at the gate in Oakland, and …
That damn well better have been my last undergraduate final exam today. It went well. Adam and I made a celebratory dinner. Penne, Muir Glen sun-dried tomato sauce, avocado and carrot that I picked up …
I thought about the weblog fad that disturbed me when I tried it: googling your own first name in the "So-and-so is" phrase and posting sentences that come up. It strikes me that this is …
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who's a crazier and more popular sort of Russian Pat Buchanan, prefers "nationalism" to "internationalism" or "multinationalism": Nationalism is a separate apartment -- not a communal apartment or a dormitory. Living in this …
Not only did I get hit today on a search for "Political Science Comedy" (hey, did you hear the one about consociationalism?), but also I am apparently a war3z d00d.* Look, buddy, I'm the last …
