July 2011
6 posts
Breaking: Shit Seemingly Blowing Up
newsweek:
(via negevrockcity)
Amy Winehouse dead, Egyptian military has opened fire on new wave of protesters, heat wave, Norwegian terrorist attack.
Goddamn.
Add: Chinese bullet train falls off bridge, injuring 89.
I have a plan.
June 2011
2 posts
1 tag
Monaco & Nice – a nice place to live.
mauriciotravels:
After a long first week of classes (it felt longer due to the lack of internet in the dorms – what am I supposed to do at night?), it was finally time for our first weekend trip – the French Riviera.
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I set up a separate blog to contain all my traveling journals, so I’ll be reblogging them instead of posting them here.
May 2011
4 posts
1 tag
Getting started in Dijon, France.
Dijon is the capital of Burgundy, a state/province/region in France. Guess what Burgundy is famous for. If you guessed burgundy, you’re right! Now guess what Dijon is famous for. Mustard! So there’s a lot of both here, right? Well, kinda. The French just love their wines in general, burgundy included. But I don’t see too much of a prevalence of mustard here aside from the cafeteria serving Dijon...
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We're not living in America.
Where to start?
I guess I should start with the just-about-sleepless red eye flight from DC to London to Paris.After getting three or four hours sleep in the two days leading up to the flight, I was hoping to combat jet lag by sleeping on the plane right when we took off. No dice. You know why? On-demand TV screens built into every seat. With more than 30 movies, 20 TV shows, and lots of...
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Europe.
So for the next two months, I’ll be living my life in France and Germany (a month in each). I’ll also be taking classes there, as well. Why did I choose it? Why did I choose to forgo an internship in the summer and instead bury myself a little bit deeper in debt? Because it’s Europe, and because this is a chance to do something that I won’t likely be able to do in the...
Eyu
April 2011
8 posts
'School Shooter' Video Game to Reenact Columbine,... →
fuckyeahvirginiatech:
What the F***!? Seriously! WHAT. THE. F***!
Watchjakefogelnest:
“What we didn’t realize, is that the metal girls were tripping on Acid.”
Here’s the absolutely brilliant new 30 minute short film from the Beastie Boys, “Fight For Your Right Revisited.” Featuring the new track, “Make Some Noise.”
Well, it’s more like the music video for Make Some Noise, but it’s an excerpt from the movie. With a bunch of people you probably...
iamdonald: I love you. LCD Soundsystem played... →
iamdonald:
I love you.
LCD Soundsystem played their last show last night at Madison Square Garden. Me and my friend Vicky went.
I’m not really gonna go into detail about the show, there are blogs dedicated to it and Pitchfork has an in depth look history of the band. I just wanted to say it was…
March 2011
11 posts
I hate when people try to make their lives seem like they’re a lot more important and busier than yours, especially when those people don’t have to work 22 hours a week and take a full load of classes. How did I learn to live with him freshman year?
Why Do People Sneeze in Sunlight?
mentalflossr:
[by Chris Higgins]
Growing up in Florida, I had a weird allergy: the sun. Walking outside, coming from from a typically cool, dark indoor place, I’d invariably sneeze — sometimes twice. It happened to my father too, causing a strange family multi-sneeze spectacle whenever we’d leave a movie. For me it was just one or two sneezes, then all better. What caused this? I...
So this past Monday, I found out that Deloitte picked me as one of the 250 people around the country selected to go to their National Leadership Conference, and the only person from my 30,000-person university. The way I see it, this is a short-term goal I wanted to achieve in order to reach my longer-term goal of securing a good job after college. It’s good to finally know that the cogs are...
communitythings:
lozzfonz:
COMMUNITY IS GETTING A THIRD SEASON, MOTHERFUCKING YESSSSSSSSS
You have NO IDEA how happy I am right now about this!
“Quantico is a military brig, not a prison, and it is not a maximum security...”
– Col. David Lapan, Pentagon Deputy Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Media Operations, in an email to Foreign Policy following this FP article on Bradley Manning.
Read the rest of the email at The Cable.
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February 2011
15 posts
Yeah (Usher) + Smoke on the Water (Deep Purple) +...
I tried the rowing machine at the gym yesterday. Today, my muscles gave me a rude wake-up call.
There isn’t enough time in the day to do everything I want. I’ve had to put aside things like learning German and going to the gym in order to read and write papers for mostly my three political science courses this semester (my two business courses aren’t as bad, though).
Spring...
Watchvaleasmundum:
peachespeaches:
teenage-infancy:
reupholsteredpussy:
thepikachuthatcouldfly:
catsgomao:
I need this on my blog. LOOOOOOOOL.
OH MY GODDDDDDDD
HOW CAN PEOPLE DO THIS WITHOUT LAUGHING THEIR ASSES OFF.
OMG
ahahaha this was beautiful
the boy with the hat
that hat was not okay.
Admittedly I laughed pretty hard. Isn’t the guy in purple the guy from the Apple store...
Watchthedailywhat:
In Case You Missed It of the Day: For their last televised performance before calling it quits, LCD Soundsystem play “I Can Change” off This Is Happening on last night’s Colbert Report.
[colbertnation.]
I can’t wait to be at Madison Square Garden for their last concert on April 2! The 10-hour bus ride will be worth it ($20 for a roundtrip ticket).
Life is full of alternate universes.
I wonder which one my choices will lead me to tomorrow.
The final concert.
So if you haven’t heard, LCD Soundsystem is breaking up, and they’re going to do one final concert in Madison Square Garden in NYC. I had the opportunity to see them four months ago in Charlottesville, VA, which is three hours north of where I go to school right now. But being a big fan of LCD Soundsystem, there is no way I could miss this final concert (which will be a three-hour set,...
January 2011
20 posts
The shocking truth about the electric Volt →
So this won’t be a conventional automotive review. First, I’m not qualified to write a conventional automotive review, inasmuch as I know next to nothing about automobiles. Second, I am nakedly biased. I very much wanted to hate this car. It challenges my worldview. Life is bewildering — essentially, it’s a fatal disease of uncertain course and unknown duration. If we are to make any sense of...
Watchiamdonald:
Sleigh Bells - “Rill Rill”
My dude Jon Watts directed this video.
I love me some Sleigh Bells.