September 2010
25 posts
"When you put on Journey, you feel like everything is going to be ~awesome~"
Hiding somewhere in the niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight
“My response to things that make me uncomfortable is usually to do more reading. Because when people see things I don’t in a piece of pop culture, I figure I’d better find out why. I might decide after doing all that reading and exploring the issue that I still don’t see those things, but I don’t feel a need to devalue the original critique just because of that. Not all people see all things in everything, but to say ‘well, I think you’re wrong, I don’t see that at all’ is a dismissal of someone’s experience.”
—s.e. smith, But It All Feels So Personal
AGHGEHHGHFFFU
I’m having a crazy allergic reaction to my new laundry detergent (fuck you, Cheer!) and I want to die. But I have to go to class because I don’t want to get docked attendance points… rawlaksrfgh.
Also, can you OD on benadryl? Two is not enough…
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
—Isaac Asimov
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Italian Americans want more affirmative action →
nytimes.com
Um, no. I mean, I already have issues with how affirmative action is in use today (I believe firmly in merit based systems), but now some white people who happen to hold the ethnic majority* in a city with an Italian-American mayor in NYC, and have a fucking airport named after them are crying RACISM?
REALLY?
* Italian Americans hold the position of the top European ancestry in NYC and state, (with white people already being the majority).
Paradise Resort
House Rulez
House Rulez - Pool Party
Mmm time to chill out (and pretend that I don’t have a million things due this week.
“Paris [is like] a vast overdressed Sphinx who gobbles up every foreigner unable to solve her riddles:”
—Freud (No, really)
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TIL...
While wikipediaing for one of my classes (We’re reading Freud), I came across this lovely snippet on the Wilhelm Fliess page:
The nose is now known to contain erectile tissue, and this may also become engorged during sexual arousal as a side-effect of the signals fired off by the autonomic nervous system to trigger changes in the genitals of both men and women. A condition exists known as honeymoon rhinitis, in which men and women experience nasal stuffiness during sex, and a small number of people are known to sneeze, sometimes uncontrollably, when engaging in or even thinking about sexual activity.
I can’t decide if this is tragic or absolutely hilarious.
