2/25/07

A Current Favorite

Feel free to substitute "Dissertation" for "Research Paper." And, I suppose, you might substitute "Anything Other Than Dissertation" for "The Internet."

Safe and Done the Right Way

"We have been overseas recently and we always went to McDonald's, thinking they had an international policy where everything is safe and done the right way. This has just sort of changed my opinion," said New Zealand's Louise Whitaker, who discovered a condom in her child's Happy Meal.

Last Gasp?

Four jobs I've had:
1. cleaning person
2. advanced-composition teacher at a state university
3. hostel manager
4. concessions worker at a gay theatre

Four movies I could watch over and over:
1. Unzipped
2. Le Petite Voleur
3. Les Quatre cent coups
4. Times Square (1980)

Four places I've lived:
1. San Francisco, CA
2. Utsunomiya, Japan
3. Sevierville, TN
4. Middletown, CT

Four TV shows I love to watch:
1. LOST
2. AFV
3. Star Trek (TOS)
4. Gilmore Girls (when Sherman-Palladino produced)

Four places I've been on vacation:
1. Budapest, Hungary
2. Bayfield, WI
3. Sitges, Spain
4. Various Virgin Islands

Four of my favorite foods:
1. asparagus
2. blood oranges
3. okra
4. humboldt fog
5. cultured butter
6. salad nicoise
7. Scharffen Berger Nibby Bar
8. St. Andre

Four places I'd rather be:
1. Orr Hot Springs near Ukiah, CA
2. Belgium
3. Black Sands Beach, Marin, CA
4. Any villa on any European coast

Four music albums I can't live without:
1. Kraftwerk, Computer World
2. George Copeland, The Victor Solo Recordings
3. Joni Mitchell, Blue
4. Dolly Parton, Coat of Many Colors

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I must be the only man in the world who can cut his nose while shaving with an electric razor.

Tara Reid on Romania

"It's a beaten-up country. You feel like, if you could take helicopters and, like, throw shampoo over the whole country and a little bit of rain - it would look beautiful."

Apologies

Sorry for my recent silence on the blog. I've been working on my dissertation. Also, I have no teaching appointment this semester, so I've been working out how I'll survive without the income and with the added expenses of tuition and insurance. I'll keep you posted. Despite this turn of events, things are pretty good.

So fancy.

I can't stop thinking about this pic of Mr. M. Cepress. So fancy.

Pretty Red Carrot