December 2009
49 posts
new year's wish
The following ‘words’ drop from usage forever: ‘totes’, ‘apreesh’, and ‘posi’.
Please please please.
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My dear old man bought me a copy of Discipline and Punishment by Foucault today. Kinda stoked.
My tumblarity is at zero. Nil. Nothing. This is what happens when you are in Kansas for a week. It was nice seeing family, and it was cold ‘cause of the blizzard. I haven’t been that cold possibly ever. Being away from civilization in an old farmhouse for a week was boring and enlightening and calming and my eyes hurt from reading so damn much. All in all, a nice start to winter break?...
Is distraction the best we can hope for?
I love Christmas. Everything is so cheery. Sure, alot of it is fake. But I choose to disregard this and feel cheered nevertheless.
Shopping in small town, midwest america is freaking me out. Everything is slightly different…a little bit off.
Cow jumps six feet onto owner's roof - picture -... →
cows get stronger, faster, more dangerous (or so i assume).
You and Me is the life of a twentysomething. The rambling, the occasional profundity mixed in with the mundanity and the frustration and the sadness and the confusion. Most of all though, the temporality of this time is represented, I think. Everything is fleeting, the happiness, the sadness, the friends, the relationships. Most of all, there’s the constant concern with the ephemeral.
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i may be the saddest.
Things get kind of weird when you spend twelve hours in the library and stay up until five writing about aesthetics.
After two, cops man the front desk at the library. I did not know this until today.
Tomorrow is my birthday. I hate my birthday.
The human body can, in fact, survive ten shots of espresso, two cups of coffee, and a Red Line.
It was tested today, and I’m still borderline...
advanced microeconomic theory. derivatives. production function. social welfare. pure competition. consumer behavior.
nietzsche. marx. hegel. master-slave relation. hegelian dialectic. historical materialism.
spanish fail.
kantian aesthetic. gadamerian aesthetics. hermeneutic understanding. phenomenology. critique of judgment, truth and method. the mode of being of aesthetics.
oh this week...
"Your Major as a Classic Boardgame" by Rick Rude... →
your major as a board game
“Philosophy=
Why: You’re questionably smart but undeniably arrogant. You look down on anyone that calls rooks “castles” or knights “horses”. But secretly you’re just resentful that at least the Phys Ed major has an actual skillset and you spent four years talking about existentialism. Checkmate!”
http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1795341
"A List of Every Single Person Still Using... →
Tumblr becomes x473 more interesting when i'm...
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White Rabbits=The Walkmen+Spoon=Excellent
Very much digging White Rabbits right now.
I just dreamed that I was in a Biology class that I hadn’t gone to all semester. For some reason my favorite philosophy teacher was teaching it, and I was pleading with him to let me pass. Incidentally, this same teacher will, in real life, be grading my research paper sometime next week. Ha, what a cute coincidence. Fuck my dreams.
Philosophy takes a tremendous toll on the philosopher. The constant questioning, questioning the questioning, viciously attacking the comforting given, the necessity of deconstructing all traditions, even the tradition of deconstructing…it demands alot. I need this semester to be over.
Tomorrow’s haunted by your ghost.
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Eight hours in the library. Eight shots of espresso. One pot of coffee. Nietzsche. Gadamer. I can’t turn my brain off.
I’m going to go back to bed, go back to sleep, go back to waking up, and start this day over.
“Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.”
– Kate Moss
“Don’t even act like I didn’t get that donut, I got the documentation...”
– Mitch Hedberg
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I’m not a very good philosopher. I am completely genuine when I say this. I just…don’t get it, anymore. I don’t know if I ever did. I feel too caught up in the rush of ideas and experience to be able to accurately detangle any strand of anything tangible. Law school is calling, and I think I’m getting closer to answering.
this isn't 1960s New York
You aren’t Edie Sedgwick. And you aren’t Andy Warhol. And none of you kids with guitars is Lou Reed. The history books will not take note of us.
“I’m the man who has the ball, I’m the man who can throw it faster than fuck. So, that is why I am better than everyone else in the world.”
You tell ‘em, Kenny.
You know, I think that King Abdullah II of Jordan is a pretty cool guy. (Having read his wikipedia page I now consider myself an expert on the man.) I like his Jordanian political actions. Well done, sir.
