February 2010
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January 2010
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Man or Astro-Man? makes contact in 2010 →
JESUS CHRIST. sxsw and the birmingham show are clearly out of the question but the word on the street is that an actual tour is planned for 2010. i will pay an insane amount of money and drive a ridiculously long distance in order to see this band live before i die.
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Listen 7-11 employee, don't give me static for...
(via thisistheglamorous)
amen. man, i miss 7-11 employees. i especially miss the 7-11 on the corner of little creek and old ocean view rd. back home that had a 24-hour SECURITY GUARD stationed in it.
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Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo,... →
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Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and a leading faculty critic of BU president John Silber, died of a heart attack today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling, his family said. He was 87.
NO!!!!
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Strange coincidence, that every man whose skull has been opened had a brain!
– Ludwig Wittgenstein: On Certainty (translated by D. Paul and G.E.M. Anscombe) (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
FUCK YEAH.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Pixies (52)
Cap’n Jazz (26)
Más y Más (24)
The Promise Ring (20)
Tullycraft (18)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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waiting.
i hate waiting for things. i am currently waiting impatiently for all of the following:
in the mail - two más y más cds; one 1098-T form so i can file my stupid taxes; two textbooks (wittgenstein’s tractatus and the massively expensive anthology for the abortion seminar)
not in the mail - course evaluations from fall 2009 so i can see how much my students loved/hated me; students...
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The pro-life movement is pro-women, and it empowers women with the message that...
– Sarah Palin, Expert Idiot (via bmckinney)
If the pro-life movement included any sort of support for women after they have given birth, I might agree with this. As it is, if a 16-year-old girl gets pregnant, they harass her about killing her baby so that she won’t give it up, and then when she...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Más y Más (46)
Alkaline Trio (34)
Modest Mouse (33)
The Mr. T Experience (28)
Motion City Soundtrack (24)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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The man who embraces a new paradigm at an early stage must often do so in...
– Thomas S. Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
AUTO-REBLOG FOR THOMAS KUHN, MY FAVORITE PHILOSOPHER OF ALL TIME (and pretty much the only person ever worth an entire all-caps sentence.)
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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the...
– John Stuart Mill: On Liberty (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
i have always loved this quote and whenever i teach western civ II i shove it down my students’ throats. last year when one of my colleagues realized that hardly any of her students had done the assigned mill reading, she told them they...
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You Suck At Craigslist. →
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Jay Reatard Dead at 29 →
not cool.
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coupleskate →
see my last post. here’s the video for “coupleskate,” which happens to be one of the cutest things i have ever seen.
“hold my hand! skate with me! round and round with the girl of my dreams!”
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At least you’re not looking at 30 down the barrel of a gun and dreaming of...
– molly, in response to my “i’m so tired of DATING” rant
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daniel johnston: daytrotter session #2 →
i got nothing but love for daytrotter, and as usual, daniel johnston’s latest session doesn’t disappoint. free downloads for the win, forever.
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